Roberts runs its own seating upholstery and panel remanufacturing department inside the Liverpool plant. We strip, recover, and refinish panels and seating in-house — so a remanufactured system returns to a finish indistinguishable from new, not patched piece by piece.
Upholstery is a core step in how Roberts remanufactures a system. We recover the soft surfaces of a workstation so a sound frame returns to spec instead of going to a landfill.
Office seating recovered as part of the remanufacturing process — a structurally sound chair returned to a clean, current finish rather than replaced at the cost of new.
Workstation and divider panels stripped of worn fabric and recovered, so a remanufactured Steelcase or Herman Miller system reads consistent across the whole floor.
Recovered work happens alongside cleaning, painting, staining, and our baked-on powder coating — so the entire piece comes back as one finished, warrantied product.
Recovering soft surfaces is one stage of the Roberts remanufacturing process. Every system is fully dismantled and inspected; parts that can be repaired are fixed, and parts beyond repair are replaced with a component equal to or better than the original. The panels and seating then move through our upholstery department before the piece is cleaned and refinished.
Doing it in-house means the recovered surfaces match the rest of the refinish, and the whole order moves on one schedule rather than waiting on an outside shop.
Every piece is taken apart and every part inspected, so what we recover is structurally worth keeping.
Worn panel fabrics and seating covers are stripped and recovered in our seating upholstery and panel remanufacturing department.
The recovered piece is cleaned and refinished with the rest of the system, then returned to service as a remanufactured product indistinguishable from new.
The fabrics and interior battings stripped from office partitions don't go to waste. They are sewn back together in our own shop into large moving blankets for the shipping department, and excess seating fabrics are reused as component packaging during assembly.
It is the same principle that drives the rest of Roberts: nothing of value is thrown away if it can be rebuilt or repurposed. The result is furniture built to outlast new — and a process that keeps raw materials out of the waste stream.
Tell us the system, the seating count, or the worn panels that no longer match. We'll recover and refinish them in-house and return the floor to one consistent finish. Call (315) 451-9185 or email inquire@robertsofc.com to start a quote.