Clen

What they make

According to their website, CLEN designs, manufactures and fits out furniture for office and other tertiary spaces, and describes itself as operating in this field for more than 50 years from its own production site in the Chinon forest area of France, a UNESCO-recognised heritage zone. The company states it manufactures the large majority of its products in-house rather than outsourcing, citing a 96% in-house production share, through dedicated workshops: a steel and aluminium metalworking shop (using steel with 47% recycled content and aluminium with 33% recycled content), an electrostatic powder-coating line described as solvent-free, a woodworking shop that it says was the first in France to use laser edge-gluing for shaped worktops, an upholstery workshop for seating and acoustic comfort, and a plastics workshop that injection-moulds corner-protection parts from its own recycled, shredded material. Its range spans desks, meeting and collaborative furniture, partitions, storage, reception furniture, lighting, seating and connectivity items, alongside allied brands Clen Solutions, Columbia and Mobimétal. The site states 99% of purchases are of European origin, wood is PEFC-certified, and the company holds ISO 9001/14001 certification.

• Design, manufacture and fit-out of office (tertiary) furniture: desks and workstations for individual and open-plan spaces
• Meeting and collaborative space furniture for informal and formal use
• Partitions and acoustic screens for space division and noise control
• Mobile and static storage/filing units, including cabinets made by its Mobimétal brand
• Reception desks and welcome-area furniture
• Lighting, ergonomic seating, acoustic panels and connectivity accessories
• In-house steel/aluminium metalworking and electrostatic powder-coating surface treatment
• In-house woodworking with laser edge-gluing for shaped worktops, upholstery work, and plastic injection moulding of corner-protection parts from recycled material

Summary written by byeurope.eu based on the company’s own website; independently cross-checked against the same source. Not reviewed by the company.