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GRAND RAPIDS – BIFMA International, the Business & Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association, has launched the BIFMA Compliant product registry, an industry-wide registry of furniture products conforming to BIFMA safety and durability standards.
The non-profit trade association said BIFMA Compliant, which launched March 1, provides clarity to the market by differentiating products that meet the established industry standards. BIFMA, an ANSI-accredited standards developer, said it worked with members and stakeholders for nearly three years to develop and implement the program, which is open to all furniture manufacturers who elect to participate.
Products in the registry can be viewed at bifma.org.
“BIFMA Compliant was developed in response to a growing market need for greater clarity,” said BIFMA President and CEO Deirdre Jimenez AIA, NCIDQ. “The design community who specifies furniture and the customers who buy furniture have both expressed the need to mo
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The Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association launched the BIFMA Compliant product registry to provide clarity in the market about products that meet established industry standards.
The Grand Rapids-based nonprofit trade association BIFMA said Monday that it launched BIFMA Compliant, an industrywide registry of furniture products conforming to BIFMA safety and durability standards.
BIFMA, an American National Standards Institute (ANSI)-accredited standards developer, worked with members and stakeholders for almost three years to develop and implement this program, which is open to all furniture manufacturers who elect to participate.
Access to view products in the registry is available at BIFMA’s website free of charge.
Comments UL test for evaluating the safety, durability and structural performance of desk and table products is one of many incorporated in ANSI/BIFMA X5.5.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – The Business & Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association’s (BIFMA) revised desk and table products standards, including two new tests for evaluating height adjustable desks, was approved last week by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
The updated safety and performance standard: ANSI/BIFMA X5.5-2021, Desk and Table Products, culminates three years of work by a BIFMA subcommittee. The revised standard includes input from industry stakeholders and an extensive review process.
BIFMA noted that “special emphasis” was placed on the Stability, Leg Strength, and Height Adjustable Desk/Table Surfaces tests. That included adding two new tests to X5.5 one to evaluate unattached top retention and the other to evaluate the stability of units with monitors attached.
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The Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association appointed an industry veteran as its new technical director of health and sustainability.
The nonprofit trade association based in Grand Rapids said last week that it selected Steve Kooy, a Grand Rapids resident and furniture industry professional, for the position.
He succeeds Brad Miller, who is retiring after a 26-year tenure as director of sustainability and government affairs. Miller played a major role in developing the e3 sustainability standard and LEVEL certification program, the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association (BIFMA) said.
In his new role, Kooy will lead BIFMA’s sustainability and environmental health efforts, working with its membership and industry partners to connect and advance the industry’s common interests of long-term sustainability and growth.