Rediscover Discovery

Fagerhult has made it even easier to make a sustainable choice for your lighting solution, without even having to choose. Our former luminaire Discovery Evo re-emerges in a new, more sustainable outfit, as we have reduced the amount of fossil raw materials by using plastic from renewable sources. In addition, the new Discovery has the light control option of the plug-and-play system Organic Response, which further reduce energy consumption and thus also the climate impact.

– We are very proud to present a luminaire that so clearly represents our vision of a more sustainable future, says Niclas Thulin, Sustainability Manager, Fagerhult. We are constantly researching alternative materials for several of our products, and it felt completely natural to make this shift.

Fagerhult has reduced the fossil raw material in the production of polycarbonate plastic. Instead, an ISCC-certified material based on biologically renewable oil (tall oil and frying oil) is used, both of which are residual products from the forest industry and the restaurant industry, respectively. As Discovery consists of 73% polycarbonate plastic, the replacement of plastic materials means that we can reduce our yearly CO2 footprint by about 90 tonnes.

– The plastic replacement takes place through a so-called mass balance solution, explains Christer Liljegren, Product and Application Manager, Fagerhult. This means that we have required our supplier to replace a certain amount of fossil-based oil with fossil-free in the overall production of plastic, which is then distributed over a certain period of time. As a result, the luminaires may contain different amounts of renewable plastic. But, with a mass balance solution, we ensure that a large amount of fossil oil is not used in plastic production but is replaced by a renewable raw material instead.

Life cycle analyses show that the new ISCC-certified plastic has 40% lower climate impact compared to fossil plastics. Despite such a major change, the new plastic has exactly the same properties as the old one and nothing in the luminaire's appearance reveals that there would be anything different about it. The fast installation, energy efficiency and light quality are just as good as with the previous classic version. Fagerhult never releases anything that does not meet up to our standards, in terms of quality, and this is no exception.