Sustainability, for us, is an engineering outcome — not a posture. Every figure on this page is a direct result of remanufacturing existing Steelcase systems instead of building new ones, and every one of them holds up under audit.
Each result below comes from keeping embodied energy in service rather than smelting steel and milling virgin board from scratch — the most carbon-intensive stage of any workstation's life.
Carbon emissions avoided in a single year by remanufacturing rather than manufacturing from raw material.
Steel, composite board, and textile conserved annually and kept in service instead of landfilled.
A single remanufactured workstation saves the energy to power roughly 19 average homes for a day.
Typical savings against buying new — environmental responsibility and budget moving in the same direction.
Documented reuse content and low-emitting finishes contribute to Materials & Resources and Indoor Environmental Quality credits.
One of the few NC3R-certified office-furniture remanufacturers in the country, certified since 1991.
See the environmental return of remanufacturing instead of buying new — scaled to the size of your floor.
Figures from an independent study of Roberts' remanufacturing process by the National Center for Remanufacturing and Resource Recovery at Rochester Institute of Technology. One workstation = 5 panels, 2 pedestals, 1 binder bin. Savings reflect reuse of the steel components and are conservative; reuse of non-steel materials is not counted.
In-house · Liverpool, NYThe conventional path is linear: a building's furniture is decommissioned, sent to landfill, and replaced with new product whose steel and board were smelted and milled from raw material. Remanufacturing closes that loop — we keep the embodied energy already invested in a Steelcase frame and rebuild only what wears, delivering a system indistinguishable from new with a fraction of the impact.
We reuse the original Steelcase frame and substructure, retaining the embodied energy already invested in the steel.
Surfaces are rebuilt in-house with baked-on powder coating, low-emitting finishes, and natural composite materials — to a new-product standard, with full warranty.
Components that can't be reused are recovered responsibly, and decommission is managed by the same team that installs.
A like-for-like view of one fully outfitted floor. Bars are indexed to the new-build baseline at 100% — remanufacturing delivers the same finished result with dramatically less of everything that costs the planet, and your budget.
Steel smelted, board milled, and old furniture hauled away — the most carbon-intensive way to outfit a space.
Roughly 93% post-consumer content, finished to a new-product standard with full warranty — and typically 30%+ less than buying new.
Indexed to a new-build baseline. Figures reflect representative remanufacturing outcomes; exact results vary by project scope.
Smelting new steel is the single largest source of a workstation's carbon footprint. By reusing the original Steelcase frame, we avoid that stage entirely — the biggest line item in the 815,000 lbs of CO₂ avoided each year.
Over a million pounds of steel, composite board, and textile stay in service annually instead of being landfilled and re-sourced — raw material that never has to be extracted, processed, or shipped.
In-house powder coating and upholstery let us specify low-emitting, LEED-aligned finishes, supporting Indoor Environmental Quality for the spaces our furniture occupies.
Everything is engineered, fabricated, and finished under one roof in Liverpool, NY — shortening the supply chain a new build would otherwise require, and the emissions that come with it.
Remanufactured furnishings carry documented reuse content, supporting Materials & Resources credits for buildings pursuing LEED certification.
In-house finishing and upholstery let us specify low-emitting materials that support Indoor Environmental Quality credits for the spaces our furnishings occupy.
Typical savings against buying new. With Roberts, the most environmentally sound path to a fully outfitted workplace is also, in nearly every case, the most cost-effective one — documentation included for your certification submittal.
One of the few NC3R-certified office-furniture remanufacturers in the United States.
Bring us the floor plan and the certification target. We'll return a specification that holds up to both — engineered, fabricated, and finished under one roof, with the impact documented.
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