Stockholmsmässan

Recycling

Stockholmsmässan works long-term with various forms of reuse projects. All exhibitions, meetings and congresses that we organize should make a big impression and leave a small footprint. We recycle, reuse and repurpose as much as possible.

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Environmental sustainability – Circular thinking moves us forward

In the fall of 2022, Stockholmsmässan donated 800 chairs to Stockhom City for re-use purpose.

The chairs were then placed on Stocket – a reuse service within the City of Stockholm – which is available to all city departments. The platform is used to give new life to furniture, fixtures and office supplies. With the help of Lundaverkstaden – a workshop studio for job training – the chairs were then repaired and ended up in a new workplace within the City of Stockholm administration. The chairs can then be reassigned to preschools, schools, retirement homes, social services or various district administrations within
the city.

The chairs donated by Stockholmsmässan lived on at Alströmerhemmet, a nursing home in Kungsholmen, where they are now used in the staff and meeting room. Vinsta Primary School in Vällingby has also received chairs for its activities.

This project supports Stockholmsmässan’s focus area Environmental Sustainability – Circular thinking takes us forward.

The picture shows a stand made by the design studio Contem from recycled materials from the Formex fair.

Stockholm Furniture Fair

During the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2024, parts of the Formex exhibition were displayed in a completely new form. Using materials from a previous exhibitor, architectural studio Contem built an entire stand and created pallets of felted fabric from Stockholmsmässan, showing new and exciting ways to recycle and reuse materials.

wood waste pilot project

  • Together with Beijer Bygg in Nacka, we have donated almost 200 meters of exhibition walls that are now used as temporary screen walls at a hospital in Stockholm.
  • Recycled hard-to-place exhibition materials have been used to create amazing creations in the Royal Institute of Technology’s annual Quarneval.
The picture shows a large dog with long brown ears built from recycled trade fair walls. The picture shows parts of the Royal Institute of Technology's carnival Quarnevalen.
The picture shows an insect crawling on a wooden insect hotel built by employees at Stockholmsmässan. The insect hotel is hanging on a tree outside Stockholmsmässan.

Insect hotels

For two days, employees at Stockholmsmässan built insect hotels for pollinating insects and bees from leftover fair materials. Insect hotels are designed to attract pollinating insects such as bees, bumblebees and butterflies, which are vital to ecosystems and the world’s food crops.

The insect hotels are now hanging on some of the tree trunks around Stockholmsmässan and at Älvsjö Gård and several of the houses have found new tenants in the form of ladybirds, bumblebees and beetles.

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