The Steelcase Company
Eco-design in a product development process: B-Free by Steelcase

Steelcase, a century-old industrial group, is the world leader in the office furniture sector. In the early 2000s, the company was the first in its sector to develop and implement an eco-design approach, based largely on expertise in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The aim was to better integrate the environmental dimension into the design of new products (see LCA as a redesign and change management tool [FIC 0240] ).

Since then, the sustainable development strategy applied to product development has been organized...