Sustainability

Our areas of development
Economical

All our furniture is assembled and manufactured in our workshops in Marly in the canton of Fribourg by a team of 5 specialized employees. We also make a point of buying our materials and components from local partners with whom we have been doing business for many years. 98% of our purchases are made in Switzerland, half of them in and around the Fribourg region.

This proximity enables us to establish close contacts with our suppliers, who are now perfectly familiar with our products and our company’s needs. Thanks to this approach, we benefit from a high degree of flexibility and responsiveness with our suppliers. These advantages are appreciated by our customers, to whom we can guarantee the perfect quality of our products.

On the innovation front, a collaboration with HEG Fribourg was initiated to study the feasibility of cashback for our products. The aim is to enable customers to return constructions built using our system. Once the components have been dismantled, they will be fed into a stock of parts that can then be reused in new projects. A way of promoting the circular economy on our own scale.

Ecological

Our patented PMF-System is designed to assemble standard metal profiles, making our products fully reusable. They can be quickly dismantled and their components recovered to adapt the object in question or create a completely new structure.

We also limit the amount of packaging we use by recovering cushioning material from our suppliers.

Our company’s location on the Marly Innovation Center (MIC) site also brings a number of ecological benefits: proximity to public transport in the Fribourg conurbation, free subscription to the self-service bicycle network for employees, and recharging points for electric vehicles. Increasingly aware of environmental issues, MIC management is also striving to improve the site’s ecological footprint by adopting sustainable practices.

Social

At PMF-System, team versatility is a key factor in organization and well-being at work. This brings great variety to each individual’s daily tasks, as well as ample scope for substitution between employees. This ensures a smooth flow of production and comfort for customers and staff alike.

We encourage part-time work and flexible working hours to reconcile family life, community involvement and leisure activities.

In our workshop, a variety of special machines are used to optimize the production of our furniture and components. Their efficiency and ease of use enable people with any kind of training to learn quickly and become self-sufficient in our workshop.

On the training side, we regularly welcome students from the Ecole des métiers de Fribourg (EMF) and the Haute école d’ingénierie et d’architecture de Fribourg (HEIA-FR) to give them their first practical experience.

Part of our production facilities are located in a sheltered workshop in the canton of Vaud. This structure now produces our patented assembly principle. We also collaborate with a specialized institution in Marly for complex machining operations on wood components.

PMF-System

Winner of the Innovation Prize of the Canton of Fribourg