HÅG's EU Ecolabel licence now covers 10 HÅG chair families and 47 model variants, following Ecolabelling Norway's approval of a major extension, adding 24 models and extending validity to 31 December 2029. HÅG has long set the pace for sustainability within Flokk, and that approach is now spreading across the group.
Getting there took two years. Every certified chair was mapped down to its smallest component: 2,923 unique parts, sourced from 52 suppliers, each one checked against the label's criteria.
That component count matters. Other EU Ecolabel furniture certifications on the market to date have gone to far simpler products, such as stacking chairs built from a handful of parts. A task chair is a different order of complexity: a gas lift mechanism, tilt mechanism, castors, foam, upholstery and frame components, each with its own supply chain to trace and document. HÅG's certification is understood to be the first EU Ecolabel awarded to a task chair of this mechanical complexity, rather than a simpler seating product. That first certification landed in 2024. With this extension, the licence now spans 9 task chair designs.
What the label actually checks
EU Ecolabel is a Type I ecolabel, independently verified and government-run rather than self-declared. For furniture, that means scrutiny at the material level: recycled content in plastics, restrictions on hazardous chemicals, rules on surface treatments and coatings, and requirements around disassembly for repair and recycling. A chair doesn't qualify because it looks sustainable. It qualifies because every part of it, traced back to its supplier, can be shown to meet the criteria on paper.
Closing the gaps meant real changes: a chemical swapped out, a recycled content ratio increased, a textile requalified, a supplier's documentation improved, repeated across every part that didn't yet meet the criteria.
The work behind the certificate
Flokk has a dedicated sustainability team responsible for tracking and documenting the environmental performance of every product in the range, chair by chair and part by part. This certification was led by Edward Buzura, Product Environmental Certification Lead, who ran the certification and audit, working alongside Kenneth Dam Lindegaard Knudsen, Senior Product Environmental Engineer, who built the detailed bills of materials, with external support from Selma Louise Vinterset, an external chemical expert who assessed material compliance across the range.
"I spent a lot of time chasing 52 suppliers for declarations across 2,923 unique parts. No component was too small to ignore. It came together because Kenneth built the bills of materials and colleagues across NPD, TPM, Procurement and Røros kept answering when I asked. I'm really Proud of what we put together." Edward Buzura.
Beyond the label
EU Ecolabel confirms that a chair was made with every effort to reduce its impact on the environment. Paired with an Environmental Product Declaration, it goes further still: an EPD sets out the full breakdown behind that approval, material by material and component by component, including the energy cost of making the chair. Flokk holds up-to-date, third-party certified EPDs across 81 product families, alongside 167 product families with a Type I ecolabel or equivalent, GREENGUARD Gold on 85% of EPD-certified products, and FSC Chain of Custody at four factories.
Behind every Flokk design sits a dedicated team mapping the full extent of what a product is made of, one component at a time.
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