Beaufurn, LLC

www.beaufurn.com

Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Beaufurn, LLC supplies high-quality, innovatively designed furnishing solutions to hotels, restaurants, universities, airports, food courts, coffee shops and commercial customers worldwide. Its nationwide clients include The Cheesecake Factory, Mrs. Fields/TCBY Stores, Verizon Wireless/Cellular Sales, Universal Studios, Walt Disney, Steve Wynn Casino, Sea World and McDonald’s.Beaufurn offers unique designs not available anywhere else. We pay close attention to the latest designs in commercial furniture and choose those that offer superior functionality, durability, quality, affordability and style.

Products that fit our customers' unique and ever-changing needs. Quality, style and price are balanced in an expansive offering of well-designed commercial seating and tables. And Beaufurn is one of the few furniture manufacturers that can provide truly custom products to the marketplace.

Beaufurn’s Commitment to the Enviornment

Beaufurn, like other companies, is continuing to bring sustainable practices to their furniture production, from choices offered by their suppliers to recycling practices in their warehouses. “A thrust is behind us, making the economics of doing this affordable,” Bill Bongaerts, owner of Beaufurn, asserted. “You do need to care, and you do need to move in this direction whether your customers are forcing you into it or not. The whole world is moving into this direction.”

Bongaerts described Beaufurn’s sustainable products. “First of all,” he explained, “the hardwood used for making the frames is FSC certified. That’s one of the things you need to meet. A lot of our products are made domestically, so that’s FSC certified.” The FSC, or Forest Stewardship Council, labels timber and paper products that are responsibly produced.

Bongaerts also explained other sustainable products available for furniture manufacturers’ use. “On the construction of the frame, there is a readily available glue that doesn’t contain any harmful chemicals in it.”

Another option appearing in today’s sustainable furniture lines is the use of bio-based foams. “That’s a soy-based foam coming from a renewable resource — that’s non-toxic.” The soy-based foam replaces some of the petroleum-based ingredients in traditional furniture foam. But, Bongaerts pointed out, demand for soy has inflated the cost of the product. The foam needs to be specified by the customer because the cost is double that of regular foam.

Recycled steel is another aspect of sustainable furniture that has been around for quite a while. Green-certified fabric and fabric using recycled materials have also gained popularity. “The fabric is becoming more and more of standard,” Bongaerts added. “We have two or three fabrics that are now green certified. There are also two other fabric lines made of recycled fabric. [The fabric] is coming to use readily and at competitive prices.”

“The finishing process on the wood — the stains — we currently use are 99.9 percent pollution-free,” said Bongaerts. A water-based finish that is entirely sustainable is also available, but a customer has to also specify this finish. “For a commercial environment, getting the right color and durability [with the water-based finish] can be tricky.”