“Sustainable design” is a crucial approach that helps reduce environmental impact, allowing both businesses and consumers to actively participate in making sustainable design a reality. This includes choosing eco-friendly materials and equipment, designing products, and developing innovations that are environmentally conscious. Even the design of exhibition booths plays a significant role in addressing issues by creating new pathways to reduce resource waste, opting for renewable resources or environmentally friendly materials, ensuring that functionality and aesthetics go hand in hand.

Similarly, TOSTEM, under LIXIL Corporation, is driving its brand this year with a core focus on bringing environmentally conscious innovations to the market under the concept of “RE-CONNECTING LIVES,” which means “doing business to bring residents closer to nature.” This is part of the mission “FRAMING THE FUTURE OF LIVING”, along with an environmental vision for 2050 (Net-Zero 2050) aimed at achieving net-zero carbon dioxide emissions (Net-Zero CO2 emission) and utilizing resources sustainably. This includes design and production processes that recently introduced the environmentally friendly aluminum innovation “PremiAL R100,” made from 100% recycled aluminum at TOSTEM Thailand’s factory, which has been certified by the EcoLeaf environmental label and JIC Quality Assurance Ltd. The production process is verified to ensure that it uses 100% recycled aluminum without any new aluminum mixed in, which can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to 97% compared to smelting new aluminum.

In addition to developing new innovations for the market, TOSTEM has also demonstrated a serious commitment to driving an environmentally conscious brand. At the recent Architect’67 event, they reinforced their focus on sustainable design through their booth design, embodying the concept of SUSTAINABLE DESIGN. The design elements began with walls made from leftover aluminum scraps arranged to form semi-opaque walls, resembling a temple wall with protruding elements. The center of the wall can slide open into two parts to create an entrance to the TOSTEM product display area. The counter and internal walls utilized steel for the internal structure and OSB plywood for the flooring and room walls, separating different zones for product displays and an internal café. The roof structure was made from corrugated paper, interlocking to serve as both a weight-bearing structure and ceiling in one, ensuring minimal weight. The materials used included aluminum, glass, steel, OSB plywood, and corrugated paper, all of which were later processed for decomposition and recycling, such as the aluminum scraps being returned to the recycling process 100% at the factory. This allowed TOSTEM's booth this year to reduce waste generation by nearly 100% compared to previous years.

“TOSTEM has consistently created booths and campaigns to communicate with target audiences. Each year, the focus for TOSTEM is on sustainable design. The booth designs each year showcase the integration of design – creativity with construction techniques and the value of use to foster environmental responsibility and material usage to minimize waste. The goal is to ensure that every part can be reused effectively, leading to the use of steel, wood, paper, and aluminum structures that can be disassembled for decomposition or recycling, making them easy to store and allowing for a new booth structure design that is always different.”

This booth design left a lasting impression and conveyed the perspective of sustainable design from the very first sight to visitors at TOSTEM's booth, receiving positive feedback from customers, architects, designers, and the general public, with over 12,000 visitors throughout the event, an increase of 10% compared to last year. This effectively addressed the issues of sustainable design and environmental care, allowing interested parties to experience sustainable window and door innovations in the environmentally conscious market. For more information about TOSTEM's products, please visit https://bit.ly/3D3Ycxz.