Our sustainability work

We strengthen and create sustainable initiatives

Stockholm Furniture Fair is actively working on sustainability, by promoting circular design, reducing waste and encouraging reuse. Our goal is that all self-produced construction is reused. At the same time, we encourage exhibitors to minimize waste in their stands, which has led to a 45 percent reduction in total waste per square meter at the 2024 fair compared to the previous year. Through our platform, we are creating important conversations about the role of design in the sustainable transition.

Sustainable initiatives at Stockholm Furniture Fair

In 2024, we introduced guided tours with designer and sustainability strategist Emma Olbers, highlighting innovative initiatives for resource saving and long-term sustainability, both our exhibitors’ and our own. In 2025, we launched Industry Talks, a seminar programme focusing on current issues in the design industry, with a focus on innovation, sustainability and circular transition, taking place in Material Dialogues—a sustainability exhibition, bar and stage for inspiration, new learnings, solutions and collaborations.

Industry Talks

For 2025, Stockholm Furniture Fair introduced Industry Talks, a seminar programme focusing on current issues in the design industry, with a particular focus on innovation, sustainability and circular transition. The programme is a collaboration with the industry association TMF and brings together leading experts, innovators and decision-makers in the furniture and interior design industry.

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Industry Talks - a seminar programme focusing on today's most relevant topics in the design industry, with a special emphasis on innovation, sustainability, and circular transformation.

Emma Olbers exhibition Now or Never was on the subject sustainable transformation and how we must reduce our global emissions by more than half to avoid irreversible climate change.

Global goals

Stockholm Furniture Fair works in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals by highlighting circular design, reducing waste and promoting reuse. Through our exhibitions, seminars, collaborations and our platform in general, we actively work towards a more sustainable and equal design industry.
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Sustainability partners

Since 2022, 100Gruppen is the sustainability partner of Stockholm Furniture Fair. 100Gruppen is a Swedish collaborative interior design platform working towards a sustainable and circular industry that will be climate neutral by 2030. Their members come from across the interior design industry and across the value chain, and include interior designers, furniture manufacturers, IT developers, flooring and walling companies, and reuse and recycling companies, as well as public and private property owners.
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Stockholmsmässan's sustainability work

Sustainability is about taking into account the needs of both current and future generations, and taking long-term responsibility in our daily activities. Stockholmsmässan’s sustainability work is based on three focus areas: Sustainable Community, Sustainable Environment and Sustainable Innovation.

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What others say about our sustainability work

Dezeen

“Eight ways that Stockholm Furniture Fair exhibitors cut down on waste.”

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Dagens Nyheter

“Lots of workshop and little talk at this year’s furniture fair in Älvsjö.”

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Yatzer

“Seeds of Renewal: Stockholm Furniture Fair 2024’s Vision for a Sustainable Swedish Renaissance.”