Eco-luz - Varaluz Lighting

Varaluz products aren't just good for your living room. They're good for the earth.

 

Environment-friendly ingredients

Remnants

The typical stone factory uses only a portion of its stones, leaving "leftovers." We utilize these remnants to create our stone shades and accents. We polish and soften the stone and form them into strips to be molded together to form the shades on stone age and urban accents. By doing all this, we're helping to limit waste.

 

Recycled Glass

We are working with various glass factories to use more recycled materials. Glass is sorted by color by collection companies, and then washed and crushed and made ready to be re-melted. At this stage it is called Cullet. "Cullet" comes from the practice of re-melting flawed containers, which have been culled from production lines. Recycling glass uses less energy than manufacturing glass from sand, lime and soda. Here's the awesome part: Every ton of waste that is recycled into new glass saves 315 kilograms (or about 695 pounds) of carbon dioxide.

 

Reclaimed wood

The Philippines signed and support the Tropical Timber of 1994. Since 2000, all exports from countries that signed this treaty will only use timber from sustainable managed sources. These countries have also established a fund to assist tropical timber producers in obtaining all resources necessary to reach this objective. This includes the salvage and re-use of timber in the country.

 

Recycled Steel

All of steel or iron is 70% or greater recycled content.

 

What makes our chandeliers and wall lights so solid?

Hand-forged iron chandeliers

Every bit as important as the quality of the materials in our products is the ability of our craftsmen. After searching the worldover, we discovered the most accomplished craftsman in the far-away island nation of the Philippines. If anyone knows how to work with iron, it's a Filipino craftsman. Using skills passed onto them by generations upon generations preceding them, Filipino ironworkers begin with premium iron stock, and heat it in fire pits and forge it using hammers and anvils. Although wrought iron may be much heavier than the metal tubing so commonly used in today's lighting products, it's also infinitely more durable and elegant. Every iron-containing Varaluz product has been shaped by hand in this way.