Development of a novel joining and sustainable laminating technology to enable a true cradle to cradle solution for office furniture manufactured from a single material - cardboard (CardOffice)

办公家具的寿命很短，例如办公桌的平均寿命只有5年。这些产品通常不会被回收，尽管由于不同材料(木材、塑料、金属)的组成，大多数材料都是可回收的，其中85%被送往垃圾填埋场。这意味着自然资源的大量损失，垃圾填埋税的支付，以及失去再利用、再循环和碳节约的机会。CardOffice项目将基于Flute Office获得的专业知识，创建一种由80%的再生纸和20%的可持续来源的原始材料制成的单一材料办公桌，以创造一系列真正的摇篮来支撑办公家具。为了使我们能够做到这一点，我们需要一些仅连接纸板的解决方案，使我们能够创造出坚固且易于制造的产品，以及一种可持续的产品翻新方法。该项目将开发技术诀窍，使我们能够用单一材料制造真正可持续的全方位办公家具，这些材料可以很容易地翻新。第一个目标是确定卡片到卡片连接解决方案的关键参数和指标，并使用这些信息来创建许多连接解决方案。第二个目标是确定我们可以通过撇脂和层压来翻新产品的材料和工艺。然后将设计两件实验家具并制造基本原型。然后，家具工业研究协会将根据设计配置对这些产品进行测试和验证，并由一系列最终用户评估其美观性和实用性。

Office furniture has a short life span with desks for example having an average life of only 5years. These products are not generally recycled despite most of the materials beingrecyclable due to the makeup of the different materials (wood, plastic, metal) with 85% goingto landfill. This represents significant loss of natural resource, payment of landfill tax and lostopportunity to reuse, recycle and carbon savings.The CardOffice project will build on the expertise gained by Flute Office in creating a singlematerial office desk manufactured from 80% recycled paper and 20% sustainably sourcedvirgin material to create a range of genuinely cradle to cradle office furniture. To enable us todo this we require a number of cardboard only joining solutions to enable us to create strongand easy to manufacture products and a sustainable method of refurbishing the product.The project will develop the knowhow to enable us to create a full range of truly sustainableoffice furniture from a single material which can be easily refurbished. This would have thebenefit of reusing office furniture and avoiding landfill by removing the need to dismantle andmaterial sorting at end of life.The first aim will be to determine the critical parameters and metrics for a card to card joiningsolution and use this information to create a number of joining solutions. The second aim willbe to determine the materials and process by which we can refurbish products throughskimming and laminating. Two pieces of experimental furniture will then be designed andbasic prototypes manufactured. These will then be tested and validated against the designconfiguration by the Furniture Industry Research Association and evaluated for aesthetics andpracticability by a range of end users.