FAST FURNITURE TURNS INTO NEVERENDING FURNITURE
Every year in Europe, 11,000,000,000 kilograms of furniture is thrown away, 90% of which is burned or ends up in landfills. Only 10% is recycled. This cannot go on and must be radically changed!
With NeverEnding furniture's 3D printed furniture families, worthless waste is transformed into valuable circular furniture and our resources are never lost again. The families include tables, planters, lamps, roomdeviders and sofas in a variety of high-profile shapes and sizes. With advanced 3D printing technology, 5 waste streams, are prepared for extrusion from 100% recyclate. The ingredients are recycled polypropylene, PET, rPet carbon, hemp, paper and cardboard. In addition, it is even possible to have custom furniture made from its own waste.
When the furniture has come to the end of its life then the furniture can be returned to TRIBOO. The raw materials used in the furniture are reused to make other furniture. They are granulated after which the robot prints furniture or the material is used to press tabletops. In this way, all materials are 100% reused, preventing waste of raw materials and significantly reducing CO2 emissions. No Waste!
The value of the raw material is paid back to the person who invested in the durable furniture. Per kilogram of furniture, the owner of the raw materials receives 5 euros in return. In addition, the costs normally paid for processing the waste disappear. This cuts both ways. Because the furniture is worth money, it is no longer simply thrown away and the raw materials are no longer lost because they are used to make new furniture.
In addition to recycling raw materials, our ambition is to start preventing the CO2 emissions caused by transporting furniture over long distances. In every European member state we want to build advanced decentralized production ecosystems so that furniture can be printed locally. As a result, only short distances need to be driven to the customer, thus minimizing CO2 emissions. The first production facilities are already up and running in the Netherlands, Belgium and Slovakia.
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Robotic 3D printing is a technique used in the production of circular design furniture. Layer by layer, parametric models are transformed into high-profile furniture pieces. Because the robot arm can print from practically any angle, extremely complex curved geometries are possible. Biophilic design and complex mathematical shapes and algorithms can now be easily translated into Dutch Design furniture. Reusable raw materials and recyclate from waste streams are the ingredients for the bases of tables, lamps and planters. It creates a new world of design freedom and paves the way for waste-free production. Furniture is digitally transported to its destination and produced locally with a minimal CO2 footprint.
Computer Numerical Control or CNC for short refers to the process of removing material with high-speed precision machines that use a wide range of cutting tools. These machines are used to process materials such as wood, plastics, stone, composites and metal to make circular office furniture.
With the press, waste plastics and natural fibres are turned under high pressure and heat into sheets that are used to make circular furniture. The raw materials harvested from the plastic waste are old children's toys, soap bottles, CD cases, crates, lamps, garden furniture and household appliances. The natural fibres are extracted from old milk cartons, hemp, coffee grounds, old clothes, wood chips, paper and cardboard.
With healthy and circular furniture. Less material, less CO2 and less waste!