Product & Workplace Design

We believe in life cycle thinking-creating individual products that encompass Design for the Environment (DfE) strategies. We design products that interface and integrate to create a more sustainable workspace environment. The result is interiors that flex and change with an organisation and extend the life cycle of the workspace, in alignment with our customers' business goals.

Individual products meet DfE and ergonomic priorities and protocols. For example, materials and chemicals are reviewed against our Red, Yellow and Green Chemical Assessment. This assessment consolidates internationally accepted information sources to classify materials according to impacts on human health and the environment.

Materials are also selected based on recycled content and/or recyclability at the end of useful life. Materials with an existing infrastructure for recycling and products designed for easy disassembly are more likely to be recycled.

Life cycle assessments are conducted during new product development to help determine the impacts of design, materials and processes before products are finalised.

Finally, our products complement our workspace platform through integrated design, planning and connection logic. Integration builds flexibility and adaptability for design, and reduces redundancies and waste generated by change.

Haworth products are sustainable solutions when used alone. Used together they create more adaptable, more sustainable work environments.

Planes was designed by Haworth Design Studio, Dan West and Daniel Figueroa, of Bad Münder, Germany and introduced in 2006 by the comforto brand for Haworth Europe. It was extended globally in 2007 to North America. This collection can be integrated with any Haworth systems product and includes tables, carts, credenzas, podiums, easels, boards and wall racks.

• Designed as part of the global Haworth platform: kit of interchangeable parts integrates seamlessly with systems furniture, moveable walls, casegoods and architectural elements
  
  
• MBDC Cradle to Cradle Silver certification
  
  
• GREENGUARD certified
  
  
• EcoShield^TM water-based wood finish
  
  
• Green core option: 100% recycled tree fibre and no added formaldehyde resin

Designed by ITO in Germany, Zody System_89 is a high performance task chair that blends science-based wellness and comfort, international design, and best-in-class sustainability. Zody System_89 is manufactured in China, Germany and the United States for global distribution.

• Up to 51% recycled content; up to 98% recyclable
  
  
• MBDC Cradle to Cradle Gold certification
  
  
• GREENGUARD certified
  
  
• Purchase of renewable energy credits equals the electricity used to assemble in Asia Pacific and North America
  
  
• Certification by Good Environmental Choice Australia
  
  
• FIRA Ergonomics Excellence Award
  
  
• Patent-pending back support system developed by the Human Performance Institute at Western Michigan University
  
  
• First chair endorsed by the American Physical Therapy Association
  
  
• Free of PVC, chrome and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
  
  
• Designed to be disassembled at end of life
  
  
• Recycling symbols identified on components
  
  
• Product take-back program (end of product life)
  
  
• Life cycle analysed to optimise the carbon footprint