Strasbourg – 15th May 2009 Steelcase, the global leader in the office furniture industry today launches Fusion. 

Steelcase understands that the world of work is changing every day. The challenges of integrating people and space have never been greater. Company footprints are shrinking and space is being reconfigured more frequently to optimise occupancy and reflect the changing requirements of businesses. There is also increasing demand for office solutions that strike the right balance between the needs of people using their own workstations while working alongside colleagues.

Allan Smith, VP Marketing, R & D, and Product Development Steelcase International, said: “Office lay-outs are changing with increasing frequency. A desk system needs the flexibility to be assembled or dismantled easily and quickly. It takes few minutes for the installation of a Fusion desk which allows customers to reconfigure their office quickly - even over a weekend. Moreover, Fusion offers facilities such as shared desk legs; this makes it easy to build larger configurations in office team space without compromising valuable square metres.“

Fusion has its own integrated storage, matching the design of the range, which can be used for personal or shared storage. The range brings together the elements of worksurface, storage, desk organisation and cable management. The users can enjoy a personally configured workstation that dovetails with their colleagues’ workspace. They can select their main choices from a range of table tops, legs, cable management, storage, and desk organisation. Users can also organise their own workplace with the addition of Partito rails and screens, lateral storage and 1+1 worktool range. Fusion family has an answer to the all different needs and activities carried out in companies: reception areas, team or individual work spaces, management offices, and meeting/conferencing rooms.

Along with the personalisation for each user needs, the workstation needs to be ergonomically sound. We have ensured Fusion succeeds ergonomically by being available with height adjustable legs from 650 to 850mm.

Continuous improvement is at the heart of our eco-design policy. Based on our eco-design experience with Doué, our former generation of desking, we managed to reduce the environmental impact of Fusion thanks to particular efforts on 3 key aspects.
- Material optimisation and recycling: Fusion is 22% than Doué (9,5 kg less) our former desking generation, without altering robustness. It is also designed for quick and easy disassembly and contains only one sort of plastic (PP) which makes sorting easier for recycling.
- Materials choices: PP releases less CO2 than other plastics during its manufacturing, and is one of the most recycled plastics in Europe.
- Transport: Efforts on packaging optimisation have allowed reducing the number of parcels for delivery: 2 instead of 3 for Doué. This leads to less CO2 emissions (53 tonnes CO2-eq avoided/year), less fuel (13 000 litres avoided/year) for 83 000 desks sold/year.

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