by Shane Henson — March 5, 2012—Kentwood Office Furniture (KOF), a premier specialist in high-quality remanufactured, used, and new office furniture, was recently chosen to assist Indicon, a Detroit-based integrator of programmable logic controls, with securing furniture that was both cost efficient and eye catching for a facility the company recently opened.
Indicon was challenged with trying to create an aesthetically pleasing, functional space as they opened the facility in a nearby building. To make the most of every dollar spent, they began this process by searching for used office systems.
“We were looking to provide our employees with a creative, innovative space. We needed a solution quickly, that met our budget,” says Paul Duhaime, CEO of Indicon.
Kentwood Office Furniture was able to meet their needs by creating a space with used Herman Miller products. Design-oriented Herman Miller Ethospace product was used for the open plan areas, while floor-to-ceiling Herman Miller wall product was used to create private office and conferencing spaces.
KOF has been a frontrunner in the call to action to reduce, reuse, and recycle office furniture for over 30 years. Although many new office furniture products are made from a percentage of recycled content, remanufactured office furniture is reused—the highest form of “green,” says KOF. Remanufacturing conserves energy and natural resources over new manufacturing by up to 95 percent and avoids the solid waste stream and air pollution caused by the new production process.
However, customers look to KOF not only for environmentally friendly used product solutions, but for their ability to design a space with these used products that meets their unique needs and work processes, notes the company’s management.
