At Formed, we design bathroom objects that are made to last. Good design goes beyond form. It comes from the care we put into how a piece is conceived, the materials we choose, the craft behind how it’s made, and our responsibility to the people and places our work touches.

Every manufacturer has an environmental impact, and we’re no exception. We make everything in-house, combining traditional techniques with modern technology, which gives us direct control over how our products are made. We use that control to reduce our impact step by step, through durable design, quality construction, thoughtful material choices, and the responsible use of resources.

The materials we choose are one of the biggest ways we can reduce our impact.

•      Concrete: all the concrete we use, across our basins, accessories and cabinet shells, contains 80% recycled content.
•      Aluminium and stainless steel: both are made from recycled sources.
•      Wood: the wood we use is FSC sourced, from responsibly managed forests.

We keep looking for ways to raise recycled content and improve the sourcing of every material we use.

This policy is set and maintained by our management team and guides the environmental objectives we set for the business. We are working towards formal certification to ISO 14001, and we shape our practices around that standard. We commit to:

•      Protecting the environment by preventing pollution and reducing the impact of our products, processes and services wherever we can.
•      Meeting our obligations, including all applicable legal, regulatory and contractual requirements, and any voluntary commitments we make.
•      Understanding our impacts by identifying our most significant environmental aspects, along with the risks and opportunities that come from our operations and the expectations of our customers, partners and community.
•      Improving continually, regularly reviewing how we work and how well it’s working.
•      Setting measurable objectives, tracking our progress against them, and reviewing them on a regular basis.
•      Using resources efficiently, including energy, water, raw materials and packaging, managing waste responsibly, and paying attention to the impact of our suppliers, transport and product life cycle.
•      Choosing better materials, favouring recycled and responsibly sourced options wherever we can.
•      Designing for longevity, with products that are durable, repairable and available in a range of sizes or made to order, so they fit the space and stay in use.
•      Involving our whole team, so everyone understands their role in our environmental performance.
•      Being open and honest, communicating this policy to our team, sharing it with anyone who asks, and making sure our environmental claims are accurate, consistent and verifiable.

Our commitment comes from a simple sense of responsibility: to act on the impacts we can control and to influence the ones we can’t. We want to work alongside our team, suppliers, and the designers and architects we collaborate with around the world, building awareness and improving together at every stage of a product’s life.
In practice, that means using fewer natural and energy resources, preventing pollution, minimising waste, and favouring lower-impact materials and solutions wherever we can. We will keep setting clear objectives, measuring our progress, and holding ourselves to them.

FORMED
Creative Director
Mark Jankowski