TRIBOO expands the range of #GREENGRIDZ, the circular furniture construction panel with a healthy mission, with a natural wood veneer finish. The lightweight #GREENGRIDZ WOOD panel looks like a solid wood panel, feels like a solid wood panel, smells like a solid wood panel but is not. More than half the kilos of material is saved compared to traditional solid wood panels, the CO2 reduction is 60% and even CO2 is stored. The collection of finishes consists of Dutch Elm, Oak, Smoked Oak and Walnut.

TWO DUTCH COMPANIES JOIN FORCES FOR LOCAL PRODUCTION

TRIBOO and Van Stijn Rijnwoude have joined forces to bring this fine product to the office furnishing market. The one turns waste into valuable circular office furnishings and the other is a family business founded in 1929 that has been proving its worth in the high-quality veneering of board material for years. In addition to veneering, they also produce sound-insulating and sound-absorbing panels for yacht building, interior design, furniture, luxury coachbuilding and door manufacturing.

SUSTAINABLE VENEER IS THE #GREENGRIDZ OF WOOD

Using less material is the key to a sustainable economy and a better world. Veneer is a thin layer of wood of about 0.6 mm that is cut from a tree trunk. This is joined together to form a sheet and applied to a backing, #greengridz. Because veneer is real wood, it is actually indistinguishable from solid wood. It has the same natural look and feel as solid wood. The wood grain and colour are unique, because it is a natural product.

THE NATURAL LOOK OF WOOD COMBINED WITH THE LIGHT WEIGHT OF #GREENGRIDZ

The look of a solid wood panel, but not the weight of a wood panel. A more sustainable solution in every respect. By cutting the log into veneer, you can give many more elements the solid look than when the product is actually made of solid wood.

WITH LIGHTWEIGHT #GREENGRIDZ WOOD YOU GET MORE PANELS OUT OF THE SAME M3 OF WOOD

Experience shows that from 1m³ of solid wood you can get about 1000m² of veneer. Calculate how much #GREENGRIDZ WOOD you can make from this. The calculation is simple.

1,058 KG OF CO2 IS STORED IN 1,000 M2 OF WOOD VENEER

HOW MUCH CO2 DOES A TREE EAT TO MAKE VENEER?

Trees are very suitable for offsetting CO2 emissions. An average tree can absorb around 20 kg of CO2 emissions in a year in its biomass. Trees absorb CO2 from the air and convert it into oxygen.

#GREENGRIDZ WOOD HELPS MAKE BUSINESS OPERATIONS MEASURABLY MORE SUSTAINABLE

The #GREENGRIDZ WOOD furniture construction panels are helping to make more offices sustainable and the circular economy and waste-free society visible in the interior. By using less material, emitting less CO2 and using natural fibres from waste streams as raw material, the lightweight #GREENGRIDZ panel is a practical solution that is measurably better than any other panel currently used in the market to make furniture for offices.  

IS THE VENEER MADE FROM SUSTAINABLY HARVESTED WOOD?

The basic raw material is wood veneer. All the wood that is bought and imported comes from sustainable forests so as to act legally and properly at all times for all the products that are manufactured. The wood leaves that are used are cut wafer thin and so a small piece of wood from local species can be used to cover a large area of the furniture fronts. The remaining yield of the wood harvest can be used almost entirely for the basic veneer materials.

IS THE VENEER CERTIFIED?

There is a growing demand for products whose sustainable origin is guaranteed. This guarantee can be obtained with an FSC and PEFC certificate. Certification guarantees that the products you buy have been verified and come from a responsible source. FSC certification is important to ensure that the product or material comes from responsibly managed forests. In this way, we are preserving the world's forests. Certification starts with the forest. This is called Forest Management (FM) certification. To keep products from an FSC forest separate from non-certified products, all links in the supply chain must then be certified. This is called Chain of Custody (CoC) certification. In the Netherlands, almost 3000 companies have this Chain of Custody certificate.