Fusion Designs Vegetation Over 7,000 Bushes By way of “One Tree Planted” Reforestation Program

As a part of its frequently evolving eco-friendly method to furnishings manufacturing, Fusion Designs is answerable for planting greater than 7,000 bushes throughout North America by its partnership with the worldwide non-profit One Tree Planted.

“Our firm has at all times understood the essential accountability we’ve to not solely service our prospects, however to guard the surroundings. Reforestation is without doubt one of the many steps we take to guarantee accountable manufacturing daily,” mentioned Marcus Bontrager, president of Fusion Designs, a frontrunner in stable wooden, domestically produced case items. “One Tree Planted is an excellent associate that makes it straightforward for a corporation of our dimension to assist help reforestation efforts that defend our pure assets, biodiversity and create a more healthy local weather for everybody.”

In accordance with Bontrager, collaborating in One Tree Planted’s reforestation efforts was a pure transfer for a corporation that produces stable wooden furnishings. “It’s essential to us to maintain the supply of our most essential pure useful resource,” he mentioned, “and to reduce our carbon footprint as a lot as we are able to.” Actually, since its inception Fusion Designs has harvested the entire lumber used to make its wooden furnishings designs from its residence state of Indiana and its neighboring states of Ohio and Pennsylvania.

“Completely different areas of the nation are identified for various woods,” he mentioned. “In case you go farther south than Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania to reap walnut, for instance, the wooden is whiter than the wealthy brown we’re identified for, whereas Ohio gives us with maple and oak and Pennsylvania is understood for its high-quality cherry. Harvesting domestically not solely ensures a decrease carbon footprint; it ensures we’re using higher high quality woods general.”

Fusion Designs eco-friendly efforts additionally lengthen properly past working to interchange domestically harvested bushes. “As an organization with Amish roots, our manufacturing vegetation are solely powered by pure fuel models which can be examined and authorized to be very pleasant to the surroundings,” Bontrager mentioned. “However a very powerful change we’ve made is to attempt for zero waste. And 5 years in the past, we moved from burning our scrap wooden, to recycling one hundred pc.”

Since Fusion Designs makes use of solely stable wooden in its furnishings, there may be zero contamination from components like glues, paraffin, resins, and the formaldehyde utilized in composite wooden merchandise like plywood, particle board and medium density fiberboard (MDF) which have traditionally made these supplies troublesome, if not unattainable to recycle.

“All of these supplies, usually utilized in promotionally priced and imported furnishings designs are destined to be burned or headed straight for the landfill for disposal,” Bontrager mentioned. “The benefit to utilizing solely American hardwoods is that all the pieces left over will be recycled for reuse.” Certainly, all of Fusion Designs’ scrap wooden is collected by an area firm that grinds it all the way down to make wooden pellets used to warmth properties within the winter, and into wooden chips used for animal bedding and backyard mulch within the spring and summer time.

“Our scrap recycling is only one extra step in our ongoing dedication to undertake extra sustainable practices and to search out methods to be extra eco-friendly as an organization,” he mentioned. “We strongly imagine from the standpoint of the surroundings and from evolving shopper preferences, it’s a step taken in the proper path.”

About Fusion Designs 

Based in 1995, Fusion Designs makes a speciality of high-quality, American-made stable wooden, built-to-order case items collections for bed room, eating room, residence workplace and leisure bought to main retailers throughout the U.S. Handcrafted in Indiana from domestically sourced wooden species like oak, maple, cherry and hickory and out there in a selection of 35 finishes, the expansive portfolio of up to date, transitional and mid-century fashionable designs is about aside by mortise and tenon building strategies, upscale options like soft-close drawers and hand-wiped finishes that spotlight the pure great thing about the woods, in addition to a lifetime guarantee. For extra data, go to Fusiondesign.us.