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Ope offers flexible furniture modules for the growing workplace
- Published 14 December 2022; updated 21 September 2026; estimated reading time 2 minutes. Listed as available under Circular economy.
- Ope Spacecraft™ is a modular office-furniture system for open-plan workplaces that change as organizations grow or reorganize. The company breaks furniture into panels and connectors; patented assembly technology allows numerous configurations and adaptation to changing functions.
- The page describes conventional furniture as function-specific and often discarded when office needs change, creating waste, costs and disruption. Ope says its furniture can be reconfigured in place with minimal noise, without replacement or transport, supporting cyclical reuse.
- Claimed benefits include reduced furniture waste and transport emissions, lower replacement costs, flexible workplace layouts and integrated sound absorbers intended to improve the open-plan work environment while retaining Scandinavian design.
- Market context: the article says open-plan offices are popular for space efficiency and lower costs, but reduced productivity is a common concern. Ope expects demand for flexible layouts that can support productivity and well-being; no market-size estimate is supplied.
- The SDG links are SDG 9, Industry, innovation and infrastructure, for reusable modules and reduced resource extraction/transport emissions; SDG 12, Responsible consumption and production, for reuse, take-back and circular production; and SDG 14, Life below water, for the company’s initiative to build an industrial value chain for ownerless marine plastic.
- Contact: Lars Urheim, CEO, lars@ope.eco. Phone number is behind a collapsed reveal control. Company: OPE AS, Hillevågsveien 24, 4016 Stavanger, Norway; ope.eco.
- The source repeats the phrase “can be reconfigured onsite” in its benefits text; recorded here once.