As a companies owner and or manager the main goal when buying office furniture is to spend less money. Creating a nice office space for your workers and customers is key. You are going to have a lot of choices and getting caught up in the never ending options of new office furniture can be crazy. Dozens of colors and finishes at what can be outrageous prices. If I gave you the option of buying office furniture at a fraction of the cost of new while saving the environment and jobs in the US wouldn’t that sound great? The goal of this article is to help you do just that for our country, your business and the environment.

Over the past 15-20 years the office furniture business has gone from a mostly American based manufacturing business to an import business supplied by the likes of China, Korea and Mexico. Even the large American based office furniture manufacturers have turned to outsourcing in order to try and save money while still calling there products American made. The truth is there are very few office furniture companies still manufacturing their products in the US and the ones that do are mostly buying there parts from foreign suppliers.

Given all of this information it is more than likely that the cubicles in your current office may have been built in the US but, the parts actually came from over seas. The problems this creates are two fold. The first issue is that of the environment. The fact of the matter is that very few if any over seas manufacturers use recycled materials in their manufacturing process. By using new materials to build their product they stripping the natural resources of our planet. The second is the fact that by importing parts from over seas we are steeling jobs from the American people. It is our workers that would be building these parts if they were made in the US.

Think about this the next time you are purchasing office furniture. Instead of buying new office furniture try buying refurbished office furniture instead. By doing so you will be helping both the environment as well as helping create jobs in America. You are going to have the same choices of finished and colors as new but, you will have the additional choice of using recycles materials as well. In addition to this you are going to be reusing old office furniture which will be re-manufactured by American workers. Sounds good right?

While selecting an office furniture re-manufacturer you may want to consider asking a couple of key questions. Will they use fabric,steel and wood that has been recycled? Even though the base of the office furniture is going to be reused on items such as panels systems fabric, steel and wood will be used in the re-manufacturing process. The next question applies to painting methods. Do they use a simple spray both or the more efficient environmentally safe method of electrostatic painting? Electrostatic painting is 95% efficient and leaves very little spray particles if any in the air. Last but, not least. Are the labor and materials all provided by US companies? Keep it in America!

If you follow these easy steps when purchasing your office furniture you will be not only be saving yourself as much as 80% off the price of new but, you will be helping our workforce and the planet. If refurbished furniture turns out to be a little above your price range you can always go with pre-owned office furniture. With the state of the countries economy there are some incredible deals to be found on used office furniture and used cubicles. With such an enormous amount of downsizing companies in the US you are able to find used office furniture that looks like new for a tiny fraction of the cost of new or refurbished. Anyway you look at it refurbished or used office furniture is the best things for the planet, the American people and your wallet.

Learn more about used office furniture. Stop by Ron Sassano’s site where you can find out all about used office cubicles and what it can do for you.