We don't design products for one installation. We design systems for what comes next: a new layout, a new desk, a new function, a new project or another life. From adaptable mounting systems and reusable components to carefully selected materials, smarter packaging and product take-back, our approach begins with one simple idea. Keep value in use for as long as possible.
Explore our approachNatural does not automatically mean better. Recycled does not automatically mean circular. And recyclable does not mean something has to become waste.
For us, better design means asking more questions.
That way of thinking has been part of Acustio from the beginning.
What follows is not a list of commitments. It is the life of a single acoustic panel: how it is made, how it is checked, what happens when the desk under it is replaced, what happens when the room around it becomes something else, and what happens when nobody needs it in that building any more. Every claim on this page is attached to the moment in that life where it actually applies.
Different applications demand different things from a material. A desk screen, a ceiling solution and a wall panel may have different requirements for appearance, performance, fire classification and environmental characteristics. That is why we work with several felt groups, each selected for a specific combination of properties.
A durable synthetic felt available in selected specifications containing verified levels of regranulate.
Regranulate content varies by colour specification and is documented for the individual material variant.
View material documentationNatural wool felt selected for its tactile quality, durability and technical performance.
A highly durable polyester felt combining consistent appearance with demanding technical performance.
A premium natural wool felt combining material authenticity, durability and precise technical performance.
A badge on its own says very little. What matters is what a document covers, who issued it and how long it is valid. So instead of a wall of logos, here is what each of them actually means.
Quantified life-cycle environmental information. It reports impact. It is not a statement that a product is good for the environment.
Tested for harmful substances according to the strictest STANDARD 100 product class, with requirements designed for articles intended for babies and children up to 3 years old. The closer and more sensitive the intended contact with the user, the stricter the STANDARD 100 requirements.
Regulatory compliance for chemical substances.
How the company manages quality. It says nothing about environmental impact.
How the company manages its environmental responsibilities.
Packaging should have another life too. It is the part of the product that gets thrown away first, which is exactly why it is worth designing.
Acustio does not manufacture desks. From the beginning, many of our desk panels were drawn around a consistent panel-side mounting hole pattern. That means a different desk system can often be accommodated by replacing the mounting adapter instead of replacing the complete acoustic panel. We have built dozens of mounting adapters over the years, many of them based on that common panel-side interface.
When the desk changes, the panel doesn't have to.
Selected Acustio products currently share the same leg and base mounting geometry: the Jasper Free Standing Room Divider, the Jasper Free Standing Whiteboard and Heaven Booth. The mounting sockets, their spacing and the connection logic are compatible, so a compatible base can be exchanged or reused between them. A Jasper Free Standing Room Divider can move from fixed feet to castor bases, or back, without replacing the acoustic panel. A base that is no longer needed in one compatible product may still be useful in another.
Fixed today. Mobile tomorrow.
Workplaces change. Teams grow, desks move, and a meeting area appears where individual workstations used to be. Heaven Booth was designed for that change: five panel heights, one common connector type, a flexible panel connection that supports several angles, different bases, and the option to run on castors. The same panels can be taken apart and set up again in a different shape, repeatedly.
Three panels around a single workstation.
The same panels, closed to a taller three-sided pocket.
Opened into a straight run against a wall.
The same panels on castor bases, moved where needed.
Same panels. New purpose.
The same question - what happens when this room changes? - shows up in the drawings for the rest of the range.
Modular 60 × 60 cm panels on hidden magnetic mounting. Panels can be rotated and rearranged, so the composition on the wall can change without new panels.
See DuneDesk, bench, wall, glass, hanging, free-standing and mobile variants belong to one product family, allowing different acoustic needs to be addressed within one coherent visual language.
See JasperSuspended elements that can be taken down and hung again where the layout needs them, within the limits of the specified mounting.
See Hanging DividersThe acoustic system stays independent from lighting. Fixtures are selected separately and island spacing accommodates different lighting solutions, so two products with different service cycles are not permanently tied together.
See DaggDesigned to work with suspended ceiling systems rather than to replace them.
See Sky SquareAcustio Second Life is what happens at the end of an installation rather than the end of a product. Returned products and components are assessed for direct reuse, refurbishment, reconfiguration, component recovery, material recovery and, only after that, recycling. We have already carried out pilot disassembly and reuse work on returned desk panels.
Our circularity work does not end with the product itself. As part of the programme connected with returned Acustio panels, we introduced a simple commitment: for every panel returned for processing, we plant a tree.
A panel comes back instead of going to waste.
It is assessed and, where possible, brought back to specification.
It returns to the acoustic solutions market.
A tree is planted for the returned panel.
The first documented milestone connected 110 returned, refurbished and reintroduced acoustic panels with 110 planted trees. The programme later reached a total of 220 planted trees. The later total is not a one-to-one count of returned panels.
Tree planting complements our work on product reuse, refurbishment and material recovery. It is an additional commitment, not a substitute for keeping products and materials in use.
Desk adapters, mounting hardware, bases and castor sets can outlast the arrangement they were bought for. Where it is technically possible, they come back to us, get inspected, and go into another compatible product or another project.
Reuse or reconfigure the complete product.
Reuse compatible bases, adapters, castors and hardware.
Recover felt, board and metal where component reuse is no longer possible.
Recycle materials that cannot remain in use.
Product first. Component second. Material last.
In our return and disassembly pilot, board was assessed for direct reuse in new panel production where it was technically suitable, felt for reuse in appropriate wall and ceiling applications where it was technically and aesthetically suitable, and metal mounting components for direct reuse. Not every returned component can be reused, and we do not pretend otherwise. What we can say is that recycling is the last question we ask, not the first.
Recycling is useful. Reuse is better when it is possible.
Where a life-cycle figure comes from a material declaration rather than from a complete Acustio panel, we say so next to the figure.
Acustio was founded in 2018. Adaptability, rearrangement and compatibility were part of the product philosophy before there was a page like this one to describe them. It grew out of the way we design.
Acustio is founded. Jasper desk panels, Jasper free-standing solutions and Heaven Booth are among the early families. Adaptability is already part of how the products are drawn.
As the desk market grows, so does the adapter library. The panel side of the mounting stays consistent so the adapter can carry the difference.
Mounting approaches start to repeat across products, which makes bases and hardware useful in more than one place.
Take-back, component reuse and material recovery are being formalised into a procedure rather than handled case by case.
We are building a more complete environmental baseline for the company. Until it exists, we would rather show you the list of what is being measured than a chart of numbers we cannot yet stand behind.
These are commitments, not achievements. They are listed here so you can hold us to them.
Acustio Lab is where we test what can work better next. Our work does not stop at existing materials and products. We explore new acoustic technologies, materials and production methods, with the aim of improving performance, durability, adaptability and material efficiency.
Better products are not the result of one decision. They come from continuous testing, learning and redesign.
Company, material and product documentation lives in the download areas next to the products it belongs to, so a document is always read together with the thing it describes.
We believe acoustic products should remain valuable beyond their first layout, their first desk and, where possible, their first owner. That is what designing for the future means to us.
We aim to make environmental claims as specific and verifiable as possible. Where a statement relates to a material rather than a complete Acustio product, we say so. Where data is not yet available, we do not replace it with assumptions.
