fiVO Design (“fiVO”), an Andover, MA based mostly furnishings designer, producer, and retailer was awarded a High Rating on the 2023 Wooden Furnishings Scorecard (“Scorecard”), a joint initiative by the Nationwide Wildlife Federation (“NWF”) and Sustainable Furnishings Council (“SFC”) that assesses North American furnishings retailers on their wooden sourcing insurance policies. fiVO shares equal billing with Cisco Dwelling as the 2 highest scoring firms on this 12 months’s Scorecard, receiving 36 out of 39 doable factors.

fiVO designs, manufactures, and sells their line of wooden furnishings that includes their patented joinery system. The premise of their designs is multifunctional items that adapt because the customers’ house or wants change. fiVO’s dedication to producing sustainable furnishings has been evident for the reason that inception of their line simply a few years in the past. Their second, consecutive High Scorecard demonstrates their dedication to sustainability. fiVO is proving to be a frontrunner within the business, setting an instance for even business veterans.

fiVO takes a holistic method to sustainability,” shares Stewart Junge, US Navy Veteran and fiVO’s proprietor. “Because the designer, producer, and retailer, we’re in command of vital choices reminiscent of solely utilizing FSC-certified wooden to stop deforestation, designing for adaptability, using formaldehyde-free end to maintain houses secure, manufacturing sturdy items for lengthy helpful lives, and incorporating recycled supplies with out foam fillers in our packaging. In true Bauhaus model, we’ve got created works of sustainable, purposeful artwork.”

The Scorecard options furnishings retailers that show a willingness to assist defend forests and contribute to a extra sustainable future. The methodology focuses on wooden sourcing insurance policies, objectives, and practices. “Our sustainability story has many sides. We’re proud to be acknowledged by the Scorecard for our wooden sourcing coverage,” shares Deanna Junge, fiVO’s Director of Enterprise Improvement. “We really feel it’s equally essential to design furnishings that won’t contribute to the rising landfills being left behind for future generations. Our patented joinery ensures a sturdy, modular building that may be taken aside time and again with out risking harm. It additionally permits the consumer to reconfigure a chunk so it might probably morph into one other use or house quite than contributing to a landfill.”

The furnishings business’s contribution to rising landfills is a grave concern. A current article within the New York Instances by Debra Kamin drew consideration to a pandemic shift in shopper purchases to ‘Quick Furnishings’ leading to rising landfills. Kamin states an astonishing statistic of Individuals discarding greater than 12 million tons of furnishings every year, “creating mountains of strong waste which have grown 450 % since 1960, in accordance with the EPA.” fiVO is doing its half in designing, manufacturing, and promoting progressive, sustainable furnishings to assist rewrite this story.

“SFC member fiVO stands as a real trailblazer in sustainability! Their basic method revolves round circularity, that includes distinctive furnishings designed for simple reconfiguration. They usually have dedicated to decreasing carbon emissions by solely using FSC-certified wooden,” shares SFC Government Director Scarlette Tapp. “SFC celebrates these accomplishments and fiVO’s steadfast promise to craft furnishings that promotes longevity with out harming the world’s forests.”

About fiVO Design

fiVO Design is a veteran owned, household run, enterprise situated in Andover, MA. With 20+ years in enterprise, they pivoted to design and launch a line of progressive, fashionable modular furnishings with a transparent understanding of at the moment’s customers’ needs and needs- lovely, purposeful furnishings with out the hassles of typical meeting. fiVO’s furnishings is manufactured in Massachusetts, USA. For extra info, go to www.fiVOdesign.com, Fb and lnstagram @fivo_design or cal/ 978-470-2040.