RESTORE PLASTIC TO THE VALUE IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE LOST.
Another Story
Plastic was invented to replace the ivory in billiard balls. A noble, dense material, designed to last. Then came disposables — millions of cheap, multi-material objects, designed to end up in the trash. Polimair starts from a different premise: to turn this waste into a resource to be used up, and to elevate plastic to what it is capable of being.
We work exclusively with recycled polypropylene — PP, the most common plastic in the world and one of the least treated qualitatively. By radically changing its manufacturing process, we make it an exceptional material: solid, satiny, silent. A plastic that has weight, that doesn't sound hollow, and that doesn't break.
Recycled, Compounded, Traced
Our pellets are made from PCR plates collected in hospitals in Belgium—a high-grade, non-porous, undyed medical plastic, whose lifespan in use is sometimes measured in minutes. A high-quality resource that, until now, ended up in the ordinary recycling stream.
Recycled and processed in France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, this PP is then compounded with natural talc—a filler that hardens the material, gives it a satiny feel, and completely changes its perception in hand. 1% by mass of anti-UV and antistatic additives are added, which protect the part from solar aging and dust accumulation.
The color is integrated directly into the mass with mineral pigments, ensuring a homogeneous and durable shade—without paint, without an overcoat.
A solid plastic
Recycled plastic is more difficult to inject than virgin PP, and four times more expensive. Yet, we choose solid — because it's the mass that makes all the difference. 7.2 kg in a BELUGA chair, 3 kg in the Baiji stool. An object with weight doesn't sound hollow. It doesn't break. It's perceived differently as soon as you pick it up.
This is how PP regains the density and presence that made the reputation of great materials. Not out of nostalgia — but out of conviction that the quality of an object begins with the quality of its material.
One single material
Everything is made of the same polypropylene: frame, seat, armrests, assembly dowels. No steel inserts, no screws, no glue. This choice of single-material, combined with the kit design, allows any part to be replaced independently, and guarantees a simple end-of-life: each component bears the international PP 5 symbol, recognized in all global sorting channels.
The result: a truly recyclable chair, without specialized dismantling, without residual incineration linked to incompatible materials. This is the only way to ensure that the cycle truly restarts.
A CLEAR AND MEASURED IMPACT
The BELUGA chair has 55% less environmental impact than the average chair on the market, rated A by Eco Impact. This is rare for a plastic chair—and it's the direct result of our material and manufacturing choices.
Not everything is perfect, and we admit it. The sourcing of mineral pigments remains difficult to trace—a common limitation for the entire plastic and paint industry, on which we are actively working. We are also implementing protocols to determine the maximum number of recycling cycles for our material: plastic does not recycle infinitely, and knowing where the cycle ends is also part of an honest approach.
