Sustainability

Sourcing Sustainable Materials

At Bombora Custom Furniture, we love to use local native southern Australian hardwoods to create our wooden furniture and cabinetry such as Messmate, Wormy Chestnut and Blackbutt for their beauty, durability and to reduce travel miles. Our new timbers are sustainably sourced and certified to ensure minimal harm to the environment and are sourced from local timber yards.

We use family-run businesses as close as possible to our workshop to source components for our furniture. This helps to create local jobs and reduces travel miles.

Cabinet maker
Located one block away from us in Torquay, the Kitchenology team creates melamine internals when preferred by our clients for our vanities, TV units and tall boys.

Steel table legs
Either manufactured in Geelong or Melbourne depending on the complexity of the design, these small metal fabricating businesses share our love of quality of design and construction.

Stone
Located in Geelong, Platinum Stone creates custom non-silica stone tops for our timber vanities.

Recycled Timber
Located in Geelong, the Timberzoo team sources and processes reclaimed timbers used to create our recycled timber furniture.

Sustainable Timber
Located in Melbourne, the Mathews timber team supply us with beautiful and sustainably sourced timbers.

Sustainability for our team

The way that our people work needs to be sustainable, balanced and healthy. Our staff members time and energy is a precious resource that is very important to us. Rather than having fixed hours of work, our workshop team has a fixed amount of work to complete in the week and once it’s done, they’re done! We believe that when the surf is good or the golf course is calling… work can wait!

Reducing our impact

In 2022, we installed a three phase solar system at our workshop which powers all of our machinery, lights, heating, cooling and computers without the use of fossil fuels.  We produce way more electricity than we use and are feeding that green power back into the grid for our neighbours.  

The majority of our team lives within a 10 minute drive to our workshop. Not only does this reduce commute carbon emissions, it also makes for a better work-life balance. 

All of our pieces are packed for transport in blankets and recyclable materials.

Rather than purchasing fancy new boxes to send out items such as maintenance kits, we re-use and recycle.

We are constantly developing new products to divert timber offcuts from landfill. From this desire, our range of recycled wood handles was born.