Our products – an environmentally friendly alternative
There are many ways to work for the environment and for a sustainable development. At Formpress we work with a focus on how to minimise our company’s effect on the natural environment and the world we live in. In production we use neither water nor solvents and we are constantly trying to improve by striving to minimise our use of energy and materials as well as cutting the length and number of transports. Whatever waste there is, is recycled.
The components of our products are; birch veneer or MDF, glue and varnish and, most of the time, decor and paper or fabric.
Glue, varnish and decoration consist of melamine-dipped paper. Melamine is an organic compound and used to make our products durable. It is also the melamine that makes them water-resistant. The melamine is tightly bound in our products, something we ensure by having the products undergo a Food Contact Test. For more on these tests, please see below.
FSC®-certificate
We are certified according to the FSC® standard, this means that we only purchase wooden products from FSC®-certified suppliers. By using FSC®-certified veneer and other wooden products in our products, we take responsibility for using wood from forests that are cultivated responsibly and with a long term perspective.
Link to our certificate FSC® C141649
FSC® stands for Forest Stewardship Council which is an independent, international organization which works with a labelling system, which guarantees that a wood based product uses material from responsibly grown forests. It indicates a social and environmental responsibility for the forests of the world and the people and animals that work and live there. The FSC®-stamp shows that a product has been made from wood from certified forests. We do not automatically add this stamp on our products. To display the FSC®-stamp on the products you order, please talk to your contact person.
Food Contact Regulation is a set of rules within the EU which exists to make sure those materials that come into contact with food will not emit dangerous substances or in any other way effect the food. To ensure this, so-called Food Contact Tests are performed. A product that has undergone and passed these tests is therefore safe to use in connection with food.