Sustainability

BoXer, Turkey’s cutting-edge design company focusing on innovation and strategy joined its forces with PE International, the global leader in product sustainability services and solutions.

With designs that meet the needs of different working cultures and contemporary business environments in the world; Ersa, which produces functional, flexible, comfortable furniture and systems, always has the mentality of approaching its entire physical and social environment with sensitivity and devotion. With this responsibility, it has created its own understanding of sustainability and put it at the center of its production philosophy. It continues to expand the boundaries of its own sustainability framework, with its environmentally friendly infrastructure in its facilities, the raw material rates it uses in the materials it produces and its transparent communication policy with the social environment.

Goals

To make environmentally friendly production at low cost.

To provide less energy consumption at every stage of production anf furthermore. 

In any case to cooperate with individuals who thinks and cares about the future of the world.

To provide original solutions that meet the needs of the public and private sectors and with leading production technologies and innovative designs.

Sustainability Approach - Environmental Sustainability

With the 22 thousand square meter solar panel investment installed on the roof of the factory located in Ankara, the firm aims to prevent 1472 tons of carbon dioxide emissions and as a first step, to meet 65% of its energy needs with renewable solar energy as of January,2023.

Ersa was chosen as the 'The Most Environmental Company of 2017' due to the importance it gives to the environment and its efforts.

A Sustainability Report was prepared in collaboration with our designers Erdem Akan & Boğaç Şİmşir, and the products designed by them after this report were awarded in 2015 by Green Good Design.

In all the projects that R&D Center has developed; in order to reduce the use of wood, alternative materials to MDF and chipboard are developed.

Hard-polyurethane material and wood equivalent materials were obtained and used in various products.

As a result of recycling plastic waste bottles, felt is produced and used in products such as Phone Booth (Cabina), Acoustic Meeting Rooms, Chair (Infinity).

Polypropylene (pp) from recycled car bumpers are used in plastic chair fonts.

The Eco Design Project for Ersa” is one the first implementations of this fruitful collaboration. The project focuses on green product design as well as green business model design. Taking into consideration the fact that 80% of environmental impacts can be influenced during the product design stage, the benefits of eco design are significant in terms of environmental sustainability.

In addition to that, it provides companies with measurable advantages compared to other actors in the same sector; such as brand enhacement, product innovation, compliance, risk management, product differention and cost reductions.

In compliance with the above cited criteria and in full cooperation with Ersa’s design and production teams, BoXer and PE International are currently working on the project.

The future outcome of the latter; “Ersa’s Green Line” could consist of some the “greenest” furnitures ever produced and marketed in Turkey.