De bedste bænke til offentlige rum

When Carsten Thor founded Thors Design in 2002, he was confronted by 2 challenges. The first was that it was actually cheaper to work with new raw materials than bringing old materials back in to circulation. The second challenge was that customers expect that any new product should be identical and without flaws. It didn’t stop Carsten from launching a project to upcycle the decommissioned Danish harbours. He did this as one of the pioneers within sustainable business development. He simply describes is as common sense.

This is how Carsten Thor describes the situation, when he thinks back to the time when he started Thors Design 20 years ago. Carsten had just met the lady who later became his wife. Her brother owned Kingo, a large demolition company that had recently broken down the harbour in Korsør. The robust, weathered wood was lying in the harbour and it was costing the company money every day. Nobody wanted to have anything to do with the wood, as they all considered it to be too expensive and difficult to work with.

Today, the sustainable transition is well underway. We are all conscious of the seriousness of the situation and the need to change production methods to a mores sustainable approach. 20 years ago, the world was different. The climate challenges and bio diversity crisis were unknown phenomena for the average citizen back then. The term ”Sustainability” was something you would only hear in academic cirlces. Because of a fault in our economic systems, it was a lot cheaper to buy and use new resources than re-use old materials and there was no incitement to change this.

It was a challenge for Carstens common sense approach, that things were this way. With a strong, stubborn approach, he set about proving that it was possible to establish a successful business when using obsolete materials as a resource. He took a break from his career as an automation technician, and began to experiment with the possibilities of the wood. It took Carsten over a year to develop a circular saw blade that could saw through the length of the robust azobé wood It took another year to learn how to control the strong azobé planks.

GAIA plank table & SIF high table

// At FH, Head Office

This is how Carsten Thor describes the situation, when he thinks back to the time when he started Thors Design 20 years ago. Carsten had just met the lady who later became his wife. Her brother owned Kingo, a large demolition company that had recently broken down the harbour in Korsør. The robust, weathered wood was lying in the harbour and it was costing the company money every day. Nobody wanted to have anything to do with the wood, as they all considered it to be too expensive and difficult to work with.

Today, the sustainable transition is well underway. We are all conscious of the seriousness of the situation and the need to change production methods to a mores sustainable approach. 20 years ago, the world was different. The climate challenges and bio diversity crisis were unknown phenomena for the average citizen back then. The term ”Sustainability” was something you would only hear in academic cirlces. Because of a fault in our economic systems, it was a lot cheaper to buy and use new resources than re-use old materials and there was no incitement to change this.

It was a challenge for Carstens common sense approach, that things were this way. With a strong, stubborn approach, he set about proving that it was possible to establish a successful business when using obsolete materials as a resource. He took a break from his career as an automation technician, and began to experiment with the possibilities of the wood. It took Carsten over a year to develop a circular saw blade that could saw through the length of the robust azobé wood It took another year to learn how to control the strong azobé planks.