Blue Finn Chair

The Blue Finn chair is a highly stackable, multifunctional chair with a plastic seat and back made from at least 85% recycled blue wrap (wrappers for keeping medical instruments sterile).

Sustainable Solutions – Blue Finn

The below video explains how we use bluewrap from hospitals for new chairs.

The raw material

Bluewrap is entirely made of polypropylene, so-called meltblown and spunbond homopolypropylene. Bluewrap does not look like plastic but rather like a fibrous material. Nevertheless, polypropylene is easy to recycle. But it does require a different recycling process than, for example, the recycling of PET bottles. Bluewrap is used once, discarded and then collected in cooperation with a waste collection company.

Creating value

Every year, thousands of kilos of bluewrap are thrown away. What a waste! That is exactly what hospitals think and it is also what we think! Together with Bywyd and our other chain partners, we have been working on a solution for the recycling of this waste material.

Hospitals LUMC and Meander – together with the Green OR and waste processor PreZero – have been involved in the process from the start. Injection-moulding company Timmerije is making the new parts for the chair.

• Plastic back and seat made of at least 85% recycled bluewrap
• 100% recyclable
• Steel wire frame (12 mm) finished in a powder coating
• Stackable (with the exception of bar stool medium and high)
• Manufactured locally

• Steel parts of frame epoxied; colours according to the “Epoxy and lacquer – Core collection” and “Epoxy and lacquer – Trend collection” colour chart
• Wooden parts lacquered or stained; colours according to the “Stain” colour chart
• Plastic parts: dark blue. Due to the recycled composition of Blue Finn, colour variations may occur per production batch. However, the back and seat of one chair are always the same shade.

• Plastic arm rests (anthracite)
• Wooden arm rests (clear lacquer or colour stain)
• Connector
• Plastic glides
• Anti-scratch glid