Circular Vision 2030
At Gärsnäs, creating furniture with unsurpassed lifespan, both technically and aesthetically, is completely natural and one of the most important ways we can contribute to a sustainable society. By choosing Gärsnäs, you are selecting products that are made for many long lives. Manufacturing locally at our own factory in Österlen, Skåne, allows us to take full responsibility for the products we deliver today and in the future. Reuse in the form of renovation and repair is therefore a natural part of Gärsnäs. It is not only resource efficient, but economically advantageous for our customers.
We already conduct major efforts today to ensure our environmental footprint is as small as possible, however we want, and need, to be even better. By 2030 at the latest, Gärsnäs will be climate neutral and completely circular. To help us achieve this, we have formulated the following objectives:
100% Circular design – for a long lifespan and no waste
We continue to develop long lifespans for our products. Partly by designing furniture from the start that can be renovated and renewed many times over back to its original condition or upgraded. We ensure that products can adapt to new business models and offerings in the future. All materials in our products must be separable and reusable in new products or returned to nature. The following points summarize the objectives:
- Longest possible lifespan – technically and aesthetically
- All materials are either reused in new products or returned to nature (technically and biologically recyclable)
- Inappropriate chemicals to be phased out
100% Responsible offering
Instead of simply making and selling furniture, we aim to offer maintenance to all our customers throughout the product’s life cycles. Our goal is to provide everyone who chooses our furniture with a proactive plan for its maintenance in the future. If or when furniture is no longer needed, then it must be easy to resell to Gärsnäs or one of our partners or alternatively another firm in the market. All with the aim of maximizing the lifespan and avoiding furniture being thrown away. We aren’t sure exactly how our products will be procured in the future, but we aim to help lead the development of a circular furniture offering. Partly through our own organization, as well as together with partners.
100% renewable energy
Our entire production process, as well as other parts of the business, such as transportation, must run on renewable energy. We plan to produce our own electricity locally in the form of solar, wind or other renewable sources of energy.