At BOLIA we are radical optimists, believing that the world is slowly changing for the better and that our creative minds combined will constantly find new ways forward and battle the challenges we face along the way. We believe that a more sustainable way forward is all about positive choices. The thousands of choices we make every day as a politician, a board member, a leader, a colleague, a family member, a consumer, and as an individual. Making healthier business- and consumer choices makes good sense, it opens for new bright ideas and opportunities, it drives good business and inspires people around us.
Explore how we are working towards a smaller environmental footprint and a more responsible business in the video below.
Less but better
At BOLIA, our ambition is to make healthier, smarter and greener choices and to inspire our colleagues, partners, and customers to do the same by sharing our passion, creativity, and solutions. We are always on a journey towards something better. We are not perfect, and we will surely make mistakes on our journey forward, but we are honest, openminded, positive, dedicated, and high on creativity. Working with the long haul and all the difficult improvements, that really matter for lowering our carbon footprint. What we believe matters the most is extending product longevity, by making beautifully timeless designs from carefully selected and certified materials, crafted to last for generations and inspiring consumers to buy less but better.
All our furniture designs are made to order in Europe and crafted one piece at the time. This way of low waste production not only allows you to customise our designs, but also minimises waste and consumption during the full lifetime of the product, through a more efficient usage of raw materials, a shorter distribution and most importantly – a beautiful design crafted to last for generations. That is also why we are happy to give a 10-year warranty on every single design in our collection.
In the creation of our new collection, our designers focus on extending the longevity of each product while minimizing its footprint, by finding ways to use less materials and energy for manufacturing. We are finding news way how to reduce waste and optimize packaging. How the design can be repaired and recycled. How we can rethink parts and components to be replaceable. For instance, we have introduced changeable covers for many of our indoor and outdoor sofas – allowing you to renew and refresh your design sofa over and over again.
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The partnerships that helps us improve
With ambitions to create and shape a more sustainable industry, we join forces with leading partners such as Bureau Veritas, Danish Technological Institute, Schneider Electric, FSC Denmark and MÅLBAR. Testing our designs to the highest quality standards, processing knowledge and developing measurements about the climate emissions of our entire value chain, allowing us to find tangible ways to effectively reduce our overall impact. And we are happy to share all our facts, findings and finest ideas, all the way from our overall ambitions to the specific product climate footprint throughout the full product life cycle on our most popular designs. The footprint includes everything from raw materials, to production, packaging and shipping, the product lifetime and eventual disposal.
Our core business values people, creativity and quality are rooted on the Scandinavian design traditions and way of life. We love functional design, natural materials, beauty, craft, longevity, simplicity, positivity, and respectfulness. Based on these values we will share our thoughts about sustainability, implement our ideas and promote collaboration. We work ambitiously to empower and support all our wonderful colleagues around the world. We are members of amfori BSCI and our manufacturers follow the BSCI code of conduct, ensuring the rights and safety of everyone involved in our design universe.
We have defined an ambitious sustainability strategy, with specific goals and actions, allowing us to create change – day by day and year by year. Giving us much more of everything we love: new creative possibilities, beautiful designs, more sustainable materials, a reduced carbon footprint and happier partners, colleagues, and customers around the world.
Our sustainability strategy is the foundation of our business, and we align all actions with our vision for a better future. Action is crucial for change, and it's important for us to meet the goals we set. Over the past four years, we have made extensive changes in our business to ensure that we continue to evolve, inspire and drive our industry towards something better.
Great accomplishments take time, and it’s important to celebrate all achievements along the way! Here you can get an overview of our progress since we began working on sustainable development – and explore the exciting projects we have in the pipeline for the coming years.
2018:
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Membership of amfori and onboarding of suppliers to the BSCI platform
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Our strategy is changing from being trend-based to creating design with a long-term focus
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Gaining the FSC trademark licence
2019:
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All fabrics are OEKOTEX® STANDARD 100 certified
2020:
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100 % test policy - all furniture must be tested in relation to strength, safety and durability
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First EU Ecolabel upholstery fabric in the collection
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Soft Collection becomes OEKOTEX® STANDARD 100 certified
- Launch of ‘New Ways of Working’
2021:
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All wood designs are now FSC®-certified
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10-year warranty on all designs
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Launch of the BOLIA Sustainable Transition Group
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Establishment of our strategic partnership with MÅLBAR to secure climate data
2022:
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Swing Dining Chair - first design with EU Ecolabel
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Our first Sustainability Strategy document is created
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Integration of the 6 R’s into our design philosophy
2023:
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The first BOLIA Sustainability Journal is shared with the world
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CO2eq emission data on 4500 product variants – with many more to come
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Supplier data becomes visible on all products
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Submission of the commitment letter to SBTi
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Introduction of several component designs with exchangeable parts
2024:
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Increasing quantity of EU Ecolabel Certified Products (14 chairs)
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Calculation of CO2eq emissions for the top 20 products, representing 339,007 product variants
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SBTi reduction target is sent for approval
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Partnership with SPOOR to focus on traceability and quality of leather
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Launch of fabric transparency at Bolia.com, allowing tracking of each production step of our furniture fabrics globally
2025:
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Start to work towards the SBTi reduction target
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An emission reduction plan will be developed
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All rugs become OEKO-TEX® STANDARD 100 certified
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A BOLIA material- and certification strategy will be created
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Climate screening of our primary suppliers’ production facilities
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Introduce the first products with transparency in our supply chain
2026:
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Set CO2eq reduction targets with core business partners
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Ensure transparency down to every component used in the production of our designs
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Make BOLIA stores more sustainable - Green stores FY26