USM evolves with you – our understanding of sustainability
What and how much do you really need? What purposes should a piece of furniture serve? Experienced consultants and virtual planning tools enable us to support you to create a bespoke and conscious purchase. So that you get exactly what you really need, tailored to your current requirements. But don‘t worry, once furniture has been designed, it can always be rethought and adapted to new circumstances.
Each piece of USM furniture is unique, planned and assembled especially for you. Our furniture is designed to be forever reconfigured. Thanks to the high-quality finish and clever design, all components can be exchanged and extended at any time without any problems. This leads to limitless creative freedom, more individuality in design and almost infinite cycles of use.
Thanks to the high quality, colours that never fade and a 100% modular system, decades-old USM furniture can be seamlessly combined and upgraded with new components. We believe a product that adapts to your style, your life, your changing needs is relevant and loved. USM furniture is a valuable companion for life, across generations.
We want to extend circularity principles beyond our products. That means adopting this philosophy throughout our company – from our product development to our manufacturing, and new business models, from our communications to our supply chain, operations and the expertise of our people.
Products – Durable and circular
Manufacturing – Responsible and accountable
Our approach to conscious and responsible manufacturing begins with our decision to remain based in our Swiss home. All USM products are produced in the factory in Münsingen, just outside Bern in Switzerland, where the family business originated. Our manufacturing processes are carefully built around the goals of maximum safety, energy efficiency and almost total recyclability at every stage. Nearly all of our chrome used is trivalent chrome which is much less harmful to the environment than conventional hexavalent chrome. The powder coating is manufactured in state-of-the-art facilities without the use of solvents or heavy metals such as lead.
People – Social fairness and diversity
Emissions – Zero as soon as possible
We recognise the immediate need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. With the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), an ambitious climate action partnership in line with the Paris Agreement and carried by several renowned organisations including the United Nations Global Compact and the the Word Wide Fund of Nature (WWF), we have committed to set near-time company-wide emission reductions in line with the latest climate science. Our progress contains photovoltaic panels on roof of manufacturing facilities. Introducing biomass has eliminated our reliance on heating oil. LED lighting and electric cars in our company car fleet are self-evident.
We still have a lot to do. Based on the results of our first carbon audit, we will use a science-based process to decide where we can have the most impact, fastest.
Want to know more? Read our most recent Sustainability Report.
We’re ready and waiting to work with you on your dream furniture designs. Call us during office hours for additional product information or to arrange a design consultation.
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