Devorm produces recycled furniture from PET bottles

If you haven´t noticed yet, sustainable design is currently a question that must be answered by every industry. Fashion and beauty, living, travelling... Wherever we look, there is a link to sustainability. To sustainability point out more and more brands in the area of furniture. There is no surprise that one Dutch company, De Vorm, tackle this question. De Vorm is established in a new era. It develops products by the standards of today. This means to produce efficiently, use the full lifecycle of products and eventually give them a new life. DeVorm´s aim is in design and production processes, always looking at where environmental thinking and economic improvement intersect - resulting in minimal waste in every aspect. The way they are able to utilise PET Technology, emphasizes this vision.

Approval of sustainability vision

Simple solutions, smart production innovations and unconventional material choices that may seem simple at first sight. It can drastically improve the effect on the further lifecycle of the product and its environment. This asks for an approach that goes beyond the paths we already know. Raw PET fibres are directed in the same direction when a large felt machine extracts the raw fibres and begins felting thin layers of felt. The plastic flakes are made into soft fibres. By blending different colours, you can in- or decrease the colour intensity of the material. Very thin multiple layers are pressed on top of each other to create a steady and sturdy sheet of PET felt.

3 key facts about PET

DeVorm is convinced that PET technology is one of the answers to ecological sustainability and environmental quality requirements in contemporary interior design.

1. PET is a solution to a safe working environment. PET does not emit dangerous off gasses such as formaldehyde.
2. It is a face finished product, pinnable, slim and it can be used as a double-sided or a single sided panel, giving it the desirable benefit of fitting into slim-line framing systems.
3. Many workstations and wall panel solutions are using a substrate such as MDF, which is in turn wrapped in a foam backed fabric or complicated again to include pinnable materials. This results in a time consuming, costly construction with multiple raw materials and a workstation size that is unnecessarily thick or heavy. PET offers a sustainable, environmentally friendly and economically attractive solution.

The press is moulding Pod shell A concentrated beam of water slices the final shape of the shell The shell of the Pod is the largest form ever produced utilising PET felt technology.