SUSTAINABILITY

part from offering innovative construction and esthetics, additive 

manufacturing enables for excellent prerequisites for sustainable production of tomorrow. The manufacturing setup is lean and only consists of the robot printer and a print base. No extra hardware or templates are needed for each individual design, which enables measures to be altered upon request without changing production time/cost substantially. 

When it comes to material handling, additive manufacturing is efficient like no other production technique. Just like the name spells, each part produced is carefully constructed by adding material, by stacking a melted formula sculpting it into a shape, resulting in minimal waste. What you see is what you get, no sawing, sanding or post-processing. The parts are ready to be used as soon as the print is completed. The material itself is also sustainable.

The material used is bio-composite based on PLA (biodegradable plastic extracted from starch) mixed with wood based cellulose fibres from certified sustainably managed forests. For more info please visit UPMformis website: www.upmformi.com/3D

If needed, the formula can be dyed in various colors only adding a color supplement. As the manufacturing technique still is in its cradle, new sources for PLA-production and sustainable solutions are on its way. If everything goes as planned there will be a local production of PLA based on excess material from the Swedish bio (wood) industry.

Filamental aims to keep in line with the inherent high grade of sustainability that additive manufacturing offers. Therefore, we produce all furniture upon order and focus our attention on clients and customers within sustainable range of our manufacturing facilities in Sweden. Instead of shipping worldwide we are hoping to branch out or cooperate with other production facilities to cut shipping distance.

Our furniture are designed as flatpack-kits to save space in transport. To keep the furniture as durable as possible printed parts are paired up with parts of other materials with traits that the printer can´t compete with. Like a flat wooden tabletop for instance. Just the same, these parts are sourced from local sustainable producers. As a concept, most of the filamental furniture can be reassembled with parts of other measurements/finishes if you ever feel the need to change size or color. If you already have a table top you like, or something else you would like to make furniture of, you are more than welcome to get only printed parts from us. Assembly manuals will be available online.