Think Green: A Pedrali Sustainable Revolution
Pedrali inaugurates “recycled grey”, its first chairs made from 100% recycled plastic...
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Pedrali has launched its first collections, which are made entirely from recycled plastic and align with its sustainable design philosophy. This extraordinary revolution has enabled the 100% Made in Italy company to achieve another important milestone in its quest for environmental sustainability: a new material made 50% from plastic post-consumer waste and 50% from plastic industrial waste.
Post-consumer plastic waste comes from products duly recycled by consumers, such as plastic bottles or food packaging. Pedrali has not used plastic industrial waste before. It has constantly reintegrated part of its industrial waste into production. The industrial element of its new 100% recycled material comes from plastic waste, containers, and films.
Given its substantial and prolonged use, Pedrali has identified 50% post-consumer waste as the ideal blend to guarantee high-quality products featuring the high resistance and durability levels required of contract furniture.
The furniture made from the new 100% recycled material has been subjected to resistance tests to prove it can withstand prolonged exposure to light and temperatures between +50°C and -10°C without effects. Moreover, given the ongoing pandemic, the furniture’s antistatic finishes are easy to clean, maintain, and, more importantly, sanitise and disinfect.
All the products made from this new sustainable material share a characteristic grey hue, a neutral colour chosen to even out and conceal any imperfections typical of recycled materials.
One of the two new products made from this new material is the Remind “recycled grey” chair, designed by Eugeni Quitllet. The link shows the chair.
Another of Pedrali’s Designers, Odo Fioravanti, has created a “recycled grey” version of his Babila XL armchair, which again can be seen on the link.
Right from the design phase, both designers considered the possibility of developing a series of products marked by enveloping comfort and optimised resource use.
Plastic seats for the contract industry must be light and easy to move yet highly resistant. The properties of lightness & strength can be achieved by creating empty volumes using air moulding technology, as in the case of the Remind chair models. The Babila armchair, instead, features polypropylene in various thicknesses.
The new Babila XL “recycled grey” version’s 100% recycled body may be fitted with wooden legs, making it a 100% green product.
Every Pedrali product made from wood is FSC™ C114358 certified. This certification certifies using wood sourced from responsibly and adequately managed forests by strict environmental, social, and economic standards, reinforcing their ecological sustainability commitment.
These are just further positive steps in Pedrali’s ongoing journey towards environmental sustainability, alongside planning - during both the design and the production phase - the optimised use of raw materials, the rationalisation of resources, the reuse and/or recycling of waste and controlling emissions.
At a time characterised by excessive exploitation of natural resources, committing to social responsibility is not just about making “green” choices concerning production and the ethics of a company’s products; they earnestly believe it is about making environmental sustainability a core element of their corporate culture and a key medium-to-long-term business objective.
These are the first and certainly not the last 100% recycled products from the Pedrali Brand.
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