A UK company that remanufactures used office furniture to as-new condition, designs new furniture from waste materials and installs it for offices across Great Britain.
Rype Office takes used office furniture that would otherwise be thrown away and rebuilds it. Its team checks long-life parts such as steel frames, resurfaces them and rebuilds the item around them, so that it looks and performs like new. It also designs new pieces from waste materials such as post-consumer plastic, mixes them with remanufactured items for workspace design projects, and delivers and installs the furniture across mainland Great Britain. The company says remanufactured furniture has about 80 per cent lower carbon emissions and waste than furniture made from new materials, and costs less than new furniture.
Rype Office says it wants to address climate change and waste, starting with office furniture, which it describes as the largest contribution to carbon emissions over the lifetime of a commercial building. Its director, Dr Greg Lavery, has said the goal is to make these solutions as accessible and impactful as possible. The company works on a take-back principle, where each item sold comes with an offer to take it back so that it can be remanufactured again. It signed the SME Climate Commitment in 2022, pledging to halve its emissions before 2030, and it is a member of the Office Furniture Remanufacturing Association.
Rype Office is a UK company serving customers across Great Britain. Named projects include furniture for Public Health Wales in Cardiff and for the headquarters of Transport for Wales, where it reported that 77 per cent of the furniture was second-life, saving 90 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent and keeping 32 tonnes out of landfill. We could not find an office or workshop address, so we cannot say precisely where its team works. Its site says that manufacturing and sourcing take place in the UK, and one seating partner is in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.
Social value is a striking part of its story. On large projects the company says it tries to hire disadvantaged local people, and it reports providing 6,500 hours of living-wage work to long-term unemployed or disabled people. It works with the Merthyr Tydfil Institute for the Blind, which makes some seating frames, and with Connection Crew, which handles delivery and installation and employs formerly homeless people. In 2025 it reported a merger with Reyooz, which runs a shop and reaches around 30,000 charities, schools and other re-homers. These are the company's own claims.
The company has a mix of roles. There are workshop teams who strip, repair and rebuild furniture, designers who create new products and plan offices, project managers who run installations, logistics staff who source used furniture from clients and clearance firms, sustainability analysts who calculate carbon and waste savings for clients, and sales and account managers. Design, engineering, upholstery, supply chain and environmental subjects are all relevant. Its website lists an Academy section, which may be worth a look.
Website: www.rypeoffice.com
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