Quality & Environment
At Duba-B8, we respect the environment and human beings. Respect is an integral part
of our vision, and we strive consistently to improve.
- We are FSC® Chain of Custody certified.
- Our products can add valuable points to climate-friendly buildings, e.g. in accordance with the LEED standard.
- In 2013, 98% of the timber-based material sourced for our production was certified as sustainable.
- Since 2007 we have reduced our energy consumption by 48%, corresponding to the annual consumption of 351 Danish households.
- We strive consistently to minimise our emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to benefit the indoor climate.
- Packaging is sorted in accordance to source and recycled.
- Since 2013, all our furniture rims have 100% water-based varnish to ensure minimal degassing and a better indoor climate for our customers.
- All our electric height-adjustable desks are equipped with a low power control unit which uses less than 0.1 Wh in standby mode. The unit provides an average annual saving of 12.2 Wh per work table compared with a standard control unit.
- Re-entry – we offer our customers a product re-entry scheme. We ensure that
furniture components are correctly recovered, recycled and disposed of.
Vision
Create Freedom at Work
Supplier of Innovative
Employer for Employees
Sustainability
The forests and the climate
The forests are extremely important to the climate of our planet. As plants grow they assimilate CO2, which they release again when they die or are burned. Around 80% of the CO2 on land is bound up in the forests. When areas of forest disappear, this affects the CO2 balance and contributes to climate change. Every year an area of forest three times the size of Denmark disappears. Deforestation is a global climate problem, but a problem that we – as a manufacturer of wood-based furniture – can make a positive contribution to reducing. In contrast to what many people may think, the solution is not to stop using wood as a material for furniture. Rather, it is to use wood in a sustainable manner.
Sustainable management of forests entails using the forest in a responsible manner that lives up to the established requirements that cover organic, social and financial aspects. Replanting ensures that forestry operations can be run from the long-term perspective and thus accommodate both social and financial considerations.
Sustainable forestry means:
- Running forestry operations responsibly and from a long-term perspective
- Not removing more trees than the forest itself can manage to reproduce
- Maintaining the forest as an eco-system, including its biodiversity
- Improving social and financial conditions for the people who live off and in the forest
- Running forestry operations in a financially profitable manner
- Monitoring forestry operations and adapting them as and when necessary
Office Furniture of Sustainable Wood
Creating freedom at work – for the environment and our surroundings, too – is an integral part of our corporate mission. Since we received certification according to the ISO 14001 standard in 1998, we have worked continuously to challenge ourselves and make increasingly stringent demands in the fields of the environment and sustainability.
Over the years, we have also made requirements on our suppliers to ensure that the wood we purchase comes from forests that operate replanting programmes. That is why it was a natural next step to require documentation for the origin of the wood – i.e. a guarantee of sustainable forestry – that we can pass on to our customers. It is for this reason that we have been FSC® certified since the start of 2011
Duba-B8 has:
FSC® license code: FSC C104600
Chain of custody (CoC)
An important part of the work of FSC is to act as guarantor for the origin of the wood. To receive FSC certification – and therefore have the right to sell certified products – the company has to be able to document the origin of the wood.
The traceability requirement applies to all links in the value chain, irrespective of how many stages there may be between the felled tree and the finished item of furniture. Only in this way can the end user be sure that the wood used to make the furniture stems from a responsible source.
Duba-B8 has certificates from FSC. Duba-B8’s bespoke interior design solutions provide a wealth of opportunities to put together a range that includes furniture certified to FSC standards. On request, we can provide detailed information about the certified products we can supply for your interior design project.
Certificates
Duba-B8 has:
FSC® license code: FSC C104600
An important part of the work of FSC is to act as guarantor for the origin of the wood. To receive FSC certification – and therefore have the right to sell certified products – the company has to be able to document the origin of the wood.
The traceability requirement applies to all links in the value chain, irrespective of how many stages there may be between the felled tree and the finished item of furniture. Only in this way can the end user be sure that the wood used to make the furniture stems from a responsible source.
Duba-B8 has certificates from FSC. Duba-B8’s bespoke interior design solutions provide a wealth of opportunities to put together a range that includes furniture certified to FSC standards. On request, we can provide detailed information about the certified products we can supply for your interior design project.
Certificates
- ISO 14001 – (Environmental management)
- ISO 9001 – (Quality management)
- OHSAS 18001 – (Occupational health and safety management)
- Danish Furnituremakers’ Quality Control
- FSC - CoC
- Achilles
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