In the global advocacy of "green, environmental protection," the environment, the community has been committed to the development of various sectors of the "green economy", and constantly research and development of the new technology is conducive to environmental protection. At the Shanghai international green building association energy saving exhibition, "green tide" has become the central theme of the exhibition. In view of the wo hee group (HWSPACES) in the industry leading position and in recent years, the promotion of green furniture, the reporter had favour to interview the wo Xi Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Sales Director - Kang Ting Mr. Kerry Kang, please talk to him about the office furniture industry "green" road of the development and Prospect of.
Wo hee trading is headquartered in Shanghai, is the international high-end office furniture authorized dealers, mainly in business, education, health care and other fields. As independent foreign enterprises, wo hee trade get well-known office furniture of multinational enterprises, Haworth's generous support, Haworth is one of the earliest advocates green environmental protection high-end brand of office furniture. When it comes to the origin in the green furniture, due to the very first spoke to reporters a little story about "green materials":
The sun sets, Lao Wang and his wife was still busy this year, harvest remained in the barley straw barrier piles, tomorrow the straw will to 380 yuan per ton price into cash. Straw as agricultural and sideline products, annual production accounted for about half of barley, oats, rice, rye or wheat cereal crop yields. In the past, Lao Wang couples only by burning "out". Now, do not handle their own, straw became the money.
Kang Ting asked: "do you know where the straw is recycled to?" Reporter who grew up in the countryside, but never heard of straw as well as fuel, such a high price recovery what can have what use. Kang Ting told reporters that in is located in the Shanghai World Financial Center, the Haworth music activity center, shortlisted for the 2008 Australian International Design Awards (Australian International Design Awards AllWays series of the office furniture is the use of by wheat straw as raw material of wheat straw shaving flower board. This case is the use of Asian wheat straw particleboard environmental technology's first commercial case. "Had abandoned the straw into the high-end office space in the office furniture, the classic case is that the current high-end furniture industry of environmental protection, to make efforts, also reflects the high-end furniture brands is gradually set up long-term goals of environmental protection," Kang Ting said.
Kang Ting told reporters that at present in high-end office furniture market, the main customers are hoping to create elegant and comfortable office environment. Most of the "white collar" the most important day is spent in the office, so the office environment is comfortable and helps to efficiently complete the work, become the main demand of customers. In recent years, the concept of "green" has been promoted, many companies have a sense of social responsibility began to increase investment in environmental protection. Face constantly surging tide of "green", whether it is the final product or product production process, have shown a different degree of "green" tone. Such as trade with Wo hee has a close cooperation with the Haworth (Haworth), had consulted the views of executives, members, other powerful stakeholders, and referring to the world's 50 sustainable development performance excellence in business practice as a benchmark, set up seven long-term environmental objectives: environmental protection products and office space design, energy management, green transportation, zero loss and zero emission, green building and site environmental management, social responsibility special and stakeholders involved.
Kang Ting said that after research experts, straw can be used as raw materials to produce, used in the production of other materials, can not only effectively use and avoid toxic smoke damage to the environment caused by burning. As a very environmentally sustainable materials, wheat growth rapidly updated. Unlike other forest products may take decades of time. Today, some international furniture manufacturing enterprises has begun straw purchase plan, through visits to the remote rural areas to help farmers know the straw of use value, through the recovery of the original form of the straw, and then the for cutting, grinding, filtering, drying, screening, then joined the ecological and environmental protection of the polymeric resin stamping, wheat straw particleboard, finally transported into the plant, become a part of office furniture. In addition to the quality of products, the cost of the control of the cost of the trade, but also began to "green" as a standard procurement. "Green supply chain" to create, often through a mutual understanding of the "green alliance" in order to achieve.
Furniture industry to take the "green" road will inevitably lead to increased production costs in the short term, in the global economic crisis environment, whether it will affect the current furniture industry, "green measures" the implementation? Is this problem, Kang really don't think financial crisis could reduce the industry attention to sustainability, instead, Kang Ting think because of concerns about sustainability, let many international well-known brand business benefit. Sea Waugh's proposed the "design for the environment" initiative, source concept from cradle to cradle ". It is pointed out that design can have also a mode of sustainable development -- not past that one-way from growth to the demise of the linear model of development, but a" from cradle to cradle "cycle development model. Haworth introduced in 2005, zody chair, becoming the first to get issued by McDonough Braungart design chemistry of "from cradle to cradle" award certificate of the chair. Award on the grounds is the birth of zody chair -- both chair parts easy to disassembly and different classification to recycling and factories to buy renewable energy from the sun to assemble the chair -- are in line with the from design, production to manufacturing products of the raw material attached to the value added in the process, we have to think about how the environment for the benefit, not just to consider "how to reduce the damage to the environment".
"At present we seek the green and environmental protection, and not just in the traditional sense of reducing pollution emissions, is not only the human damage to the environment to minimize, but to make the environment for our existence and development and the same development and benefit." Kang Ting the remarks, the reporter deeply realize that the real "green" is the harmonious unification of man and nature to hear the colorful world with the nature entrusts with the infinite wealth to create human; at the same time, the man with the infinite wisdom help the natural world to keep fresh and beautiful, in man and nature constantly benign cycle development, the continuation of the human civilization, creating the history of mankind a miracle.