Emeco Offers Cash for Clunker (Chairs): Recycle, Relax

Emeco, the Aluminum Chair Company, will offer a 50% discount on any chair and stool in its catalog to anyone sending in an old, clunker aluminum chair. Emeco will collect the old chairs, no matter their condition, and recycle them into useable aluminum to make new Emeco chairs.

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Newly reissued Emeco 1104 Navy (r) Chair

Quote startI keep seeing those cheap, beat up aluminum chairs – and worse, the Chinese knock-offs. This is a way to recycle those and get people some brand-new, real Emeco chairs that will last forever.Quote end

Hanover, PA (PRWEB) November 25, 2009

Emeco, the Aluminum Chair Company, announces it will offer a 50% discount on any chair and stool in its catalog to anyone sending in an old, clunker aluminum chair. Emeco will collect the old chairs and send them to its recycling plant in Baltimore, Maryland- about an hour from the historic Emeco factory in Hanover, Pennsylvania. The old aluminum chairs will be recycled into useable aluminum for manufacturing.

Any aluminum chair will be accepted for recycling, and more than one chair can be exchanged as well. All chairs and stools made by Emeco qualify for the discount. The promotion runs from November 25 2009 through February 2010. More information can be found at the Emeco website, http://www.emeco.net. This promotion is only through the Emeco website.

Denis Tangen, who runs Emeco's production and thought up the scheme, said, "I keep seeing those cheap, beat up aluminum chairs - and worse, the Chinese knock-offs. This is a way to recycle those and get people some brand-new, real Emeco chairs that will last forever."

All Emeco chairs and stools are made of 80% recycled aluminum and most come with a life-time guarantee. Lead times from the Hanover plant are 4 to 8 weeks.

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Emeco was founded in 1944 to make all-aluminum chairs for the US Navy. Gregg Buchbinder purchased the company in 1998 and began a friendship and association with the renowned French architect, Philippe Starck, creating a series of products that united Emeco's historic manufacturing capabilities with Mr. Starck's classic designs for a new century. In 2000, Mr. Starck's Hudson chair for Emeco won the GOOD DESIGN Award and was inducted into the permanent design collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

In 2004, Emeco collaborated with the American architect Frank Gehry on Superlight, a chair that utilizes aluminum's ability to be both strong and flexible. Mr. Gehry's chair won another GOOD DESIGN award in 2004 and was included in collections at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Pinakothek der Modern in Munich. In 2007 Emeco's collaboration with Norman Foster "20-06" debuted at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile and won another GOOD DESIGN award, as well as a 2007 Spark Design Award. Emeco launched the Nine-O collection by Ettore Sottsass - the last design by Mr. Sottsass who died in 2007 at the age of 90, and Morgans, a chair designed by Andree Putman for the Morgans hotel renovation in New York.

From a workforce of 15 craftsmen in 1998, Emeco has quadrupled its size and recently instated a second manufacturing shift for the first time in 25 years. Emeco has made over 1,000,000 1006 Navy® chairs since 1944 and now sells its all-aluminum furniture in 50 countries. Please visit http://www.emeco.net.

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