Vlaar International® products

Desk monitor arms, wall monitor mounts and sit-stand desks and retrofits are traditionally unimpressive. So we are going to reinvent them and make them finished.

Be Upright

Vlaar International® lets your next position be upright™. You are looking for the most comprehensive product that allows you to work and relax in the optimal posture and with the optimal viewing distance.

Research and Development

We take on market leaders through continuous research and development. We pursue innovation and create smart technologies. We are thorough. We give you unique solutions, from simple to complex, to meet current and future needs.

Design and Engineering

We take on market leaders through clever design and engineering. We create striking designs and pursue future product roadmaps. We are creative. We give you unique products, both distinct and commercial, to meet current and future needs.

Manufacturing and Logistics

We work with attention to detail. We offer prototype services. We advise contract manufacturing using our network of world-class facilities. We advise tooling, samples, production, quality control and packaging. We are full-service.

For Everyone

Vlaar International® believes in sustainability for everyone™. We give you reclaimed valuable space and exceptional innovation in products that fit any contemporary home or office.

Affordable

We believe in making our smart technologies affordable. We deliver exceptional functionality in desk monitor arms, wall monitor mounts and sit-stand desks and retrofits that allows you to work and relax in the optimal posture and with the optimal viewing distance.

Long-lasting

We believe in sustainability through Circular Product Design. We aim at extending the life of our products. That means we aim for long-lasting functional, technical and aesthetic design. And we aim for the ease of update (maintain and repair) and upgrade (improve). And we aim for the most favorable waste management: reduce, reduce by reuse and recycle.

Vlaar International®

We innovate for you to brand, market and sell our products that fit any contemporary home or office. We deliver technology and sustainable, modular and circular products. And we transcend all manufacturing expectations to take on market leaders.

Vlaar International® believes in sustainability for everyone™. We give you reclaimed valuable space and exceptional innovation in products that fit any contemporary home or office.

Aluminum vs steel.

Aluminum is the third most common element in the Earth’s crust. Aluminum accounts for 8 percent of the outermost surface. It is the crust’s most abundant metal.
 
Iron is the fourth most common element in the Earth’s crust. Iron accounts for 5 percent of the outermost surface. Iron combined with carbon makes steel.

We use aluminum for our products because this metal is most sustainable.
 
Aluminum is also light, strong and easy to process.
 
Aluminum has great design freedom.

The production of primary aluminum relies heavily on energy.

By contrast, relatively little energy is required to:

transport aluminum (low weight per volume)
 
manufacture products from aluminum (low temperature of the smelting process)
 
recycle aluminum (compared to production from raw materials)

Aluminum can be recycled time and time again without losing its quality. This recycling process consumes merely 5% of the energy initially required to produce primary aluminum.

The world is short and will stay short of recycled aluminum.

Only 30 percent¹ of global aluminum consumption comes from recycling.

The consumption rate of aluminum will only increase and, because of sustainability, we will have to wait longer and longer until aluminum products are discarded and recycled.

¹ 47 percent in case of European aluminum consumption

It makes no difference who uses the recycled aluminum, or which product it contains. If recycled aluminum is not used in one product, it will certainly be used in another.

Aluminum vs fiber-reinforced composite-made.

Fiberglass is widely acknowledged as a material that has major advantages over its more conventional rival aluminum.
 
It is less energy-intensive in development and is used extensively for products which decrease carbon emissions.

How fiberglass is recycled.

Granulated composite can replace fossil fuels and can be used as a substitute for new raw materials.
 
Example: the production of cement is dependent on large quantities of sand. And sand is also the main constituent of glass, and thus also of fiberglass. Fiberglass additionally contains resin which can be used as an energy source in cement production, thereby replacing the use of fossil fuels.
 
Result: recycling 1000 tonnes of specific composite in cement manufacture saves up to 450 tonnes of coal, 200 tonnes of chalk, 200 tonnes of sand and 150 tonnes of aluminum oxide. And the recycling process produces no dust, ash or other residues.

The carbon footprint is first and foremost about weight.

The carbon footprint is determined by the amounts of aluminum, steel, glass and plastic that are used to make our products and that are reused after recycling.

End-of-life recycling approach.

Aluminum will always remain within the chain. This end-of-life recycling approach is the latest and most widely accepted approach to calculating the carbon footprint of an aluminum product.
 
The recycled content approach is based on percentages of post-industrial and post-consumer recycled aluminum material in a specific product.

Sustainability aims at extending the life of a product. We aim for long-lasting functional, technical and aesthetic design.

We aim for the ease of update (maintain and repair) and upgrade (improve).
 
And we aim for the most favorable waste management: reduce, reduce by reuse and recycle.
 
We are committed to close material loops to keep products, modules, parts and materials at their highest utility and value at all times while they keep circulating in and contributing to the economy.

What is a circular economy?

Looking beyond the current take, make and dispose extractive industrial model, the circular economy is restorative and regenerative by design. Relying on system-wide innovation, it aims to redefine products and services to design waste out, while minimizing negative impacts. Underpinned by a transition to renewable energy sources, the circular model builds economic, natural and social capital.

ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/circular-economy

Circular Product Design

We design to last forever so you never stop using our products.
 
We design modular so you effortlessly reuse our modules.
 
And we design parts that are made to be made again.

Made to be made again.

We make parts from materials that have recycle value.
 
We make parts from single materials, so recycling is effectively possible and profitable.
 
We design parts so our products can easily be updated (maintained and repaired) and upgraded (improved).

We design modular so you effortlessly reuse our modules.

Modularity, versatility, and adaptivity are prized features to build resilience through diversity. Diverse products are more resilient than products built simply for efficiency.
 
Smart Connect™ is our patented technology to make plug and play modules. Toolless.

Our smart modular design gets you sustainability.

Circular Product Design requires smart material selection, standardized parts, Design for Manufacturing guidelines, including Design for Disassembly and Recycling guidelines.
 

We give you ultimate configurability eliminating redundant products, modules and parts.

We give you all the extra functionalities in a most striking design.

We give you a reinvented product with matching accessories.

 
architecture and design of parts
 

We create subassemblies where possible.

We use a minimum of parts and a minimum of different types of materials.

 
selection and use of interconnection materials
 

We minimize the number and type of connections, but never use too few or poor quality connections.

We only use connections that can easily be removed, are click and play or are single-use, but never permanent connections.

Our smart modular design gets you the lowest price.

When we make your parts, assemble your modules and pack your products we save money.
 
When we ship, store and display we save money.
 
And at set up we save money.

Sustainability

We aim at extending the life of a product.
 

premium functional, technical and aesthetic design

premium materials and finishes

favorable minimum weight and carbon footprint

innovative Circular Product Design

designed and engineered in Holland

Modular

We design modular so you effortlessly reuse our modules.
 

toolless and intuitive

easy updates (maintain and repair) and upgrades (improve)

add to expand

patented Smart Connect™ to make plug and play modules

ultimate configurability eliminating redundancy

 
We give you a reinvented product with matching accessories.

Recycle

We design parts that are made to be made again.
 

highly recyclable aluminum parts

100% recyclable certified

end-of-life (EOL) take-back programs

Design for Disassembly, Design for Recycling

plastic-free packaging