Choosing sustainable materials: Wood

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Wood and forestry

We love working with wood. It’s a fantastic material: beautiful, durable and long-lasting. And it can be used in lots of different ways. When it comes from responsibly managed forests, it can help to mitigate climate change and minimise negative impact on biodiversity. On top of that, it’s renewable and we are committed to increasing the amount of recycled content in our wooden products.

For the future of our business and the planet, we want to utilise this valuable resource as efficiently as possible and ensure that the forests we source from or own are managed responsibly.

But what does that mean in reality? Let’s take a walk through our approach on how we source and use wood, answering some important questions along the way.

The wood we use

The wood used in IKEA products comes from many locations around the world. Learn where it grows, how much we use and what types of wood we source. We require that suppliers use Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC)-certified or recycled wood in our home furnishing products.

Many viewpoints, all important

There are different views on how forests should be managed and protected. Some believe mother nature should be left as is. Others rightly highlight that many people depend on forests for providing food and shelter. At the same time, as a society, we also need to build houses, print books and make furniture out of wood. Is it possible to balance these seemingly opposing interests? The answer we believe is yes, we can. And the way to do that is through responsible forest management.

Meet Maciej, IKEA raw material developer based in Poland

Maciej has spent years tracing the journey of wood from forest to furniture. Since joining IKEA in 2017, Maciej has been at the forefront of verifying the origin and species of wood used in IKEA products.

Maciej’s work takes him deep into sawmills and forests where he cross-checks supplier records with real-world conditions. At sawmills, he checks legal documentation and ensures that wood has been harvested in line with national regulations and applicable forest management standards. At logging sites, he ensures that operations are independently certified and in line with local regulations and sustainability standards.

“We match supplier information with what we see on the ground. If anything is off, we take immediate action to protect the integrity of our supply chain” , Maciej shared.

Shaping change

BILLYbookcase with glass/panel doors, white

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7,999₺

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BILLY: A bookcase that just got better

BILLY is still one of the best-selling and best-known IKEA products. In FY22, BILLY was redesigned to improve its circular capabilities. Shifting to paper foil and reducing plastic means that most materials used to produce the new BILLY will come from renewable sources. The new design also has snap fittings on the back panel instead of nails, so it can be disassembled, reassembled and taken with you through the different stages of your life.

RÖNNINGE: Less wood, more legs

At IKEA, we’re driven to create more from less. When we design our products this way, not only do we use wood more mindfully, but we also make them lighter and easier to transport. For example, using hollow wooden legs on our RÖNNINGE table, we can make eight legs from the same amount of material previously used to make just one

RÖNNINGEwooden chair, birch

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4,999₺

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FRÖSETwooden sofa, white stained oak veneer

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3,799₺

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FRÖSET: Bent for comfort and strength

Assembling multiple layers of veneer in special moulds and pressing and gluing them together allows us to create curved components. FRÖSET easy chair uses bent wood in different thicknesses. The back rest is thinner, so it flexes, while the seat is thicker to provide support where you need it most.

MÖRBYLÅNGA: Combining wood types

Oak is a hardwood that darkens beautifully with age. MÖRBYLÅNGA tabletop has a top layer of between 0.6-0.8mm solid oak applied on particleboard, a resource-efficient way of using different wood materials in the same piece of furniture. This high quality finish is durable and makes every table unique.

MÖRBYLÅNGAdining table, oak veneer-brown

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36,999₺

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Restoring rainforest with Sow a Seed

Deforestation and degradation of rainforests poses a major risk to the world's climate, biodiversity and more. Launched in 1998, our Sow a Seed project in Borneo has led to the protection of a total of 18,500 hectares of heavily degraded rainforest in Malaysia. These actions include the restoration of over 14,000 hectares (equivalent to about 25,900 soccer fields). It’s now one of the world’s largest and longest term tropical forest ecosystem restoration projects with research being conducted to guide others who want to restore rainforests.

Product Information

Choosing sustainable materials: Wood

Wood and forestry

The wood we use

Many viewpoints, all important

Responsibly managed

Meet Maciej, IKEA raw material developer based in Poland

Efficiently used

Shaping change

BILLYbookcase with glass/panel doors, white

BILLY: A bookcase that just got better

RÖNNINGE: Less wood, more legs

RÖNNINGEwooden chair, birch

FRÖSETwooden sofa, white stained oak veneer

FRÖSET: Bent for comfort and strength

MÖRBYLÅNGA: Combining wood types

MÖRBYLÅNGAdining table, oak veneer-brown

Going beyond IKEA

Restoring rainforest with Sow a Seed