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SMÅGLI Plate/bowl - IKEA

Plastic is a key material for IKEA, and remains so going forward. It is strong, durable, lightweight and versatile. It is a main component in a large amount of our products and has a wide variety of applications from surface materials such as paint and foil, to screws and shelf pegs. There is a lot of valid concern regarding how plastic impacts the environment and at IKEA we take this very seriously. As part of our larger circular journey and transition from virgin fossil based material, we are working hard to change all plastic in our home furnishing products to plastic made from recycled and/or renewable raw materials.

When product designer Wiebke Braasch became a mother, she experienced the challenge of feeding a baby first-hand. First, there was the mess. Then there was the distress of watching her son struggle heroically to get peas from his plate to his mouth only to have them fall off at the last moment. It inspired her, and the result are BÖRJA and SMÅGLI – baby tested and approved.

Learning to eat is important for developing fine motor skills, and Wiebke felt that better tools could give babies and their parents some help along the way. She pooled her insights with product designer Ina Tidbeck Sjöblom, and together they began to sketch out ideas and carry out feeding and eating tests with babies and their parents. “We visited families in their homes and observed children being fed and feeding themselves,” Wiebke explains. “We wanted to find out what kind of spoons, plates and cups they used, how they used them and how they felt about them.” They watched as the babies explored everything – squishing the food, banging the cup on the table and moving the plate around. Much of the food ended up anywhere and everywhere but the babies’ mouths. Porridge was on the floor. Fruit and vegetable purées of every color were on clothes, on baby faces and in hair.

“Our research confirmed our experiences at home,” Wiebke says. “We understood the parents’ desire for less cleanup and a more meaningful experience with their children. Based on that, we created tools with shapes that help babies learn more quickly and make feeding easier and less messy.” They gave the SMÅGLI plate and bowl high sides and an inward curve, so when children push food against the sides it practically falls back into their spoons, instead of over the edge. In tests, they observed how attempts to keep plates on the table – with suction – failed spectacularly and resulted in the children fighting to pull the plates off the table. Once they got them loose, which they always did, the parents had to clean food off of walls, instead of floors. So the materials – heavy on top and soft on the underside – are also carefully chosen to help the plate and bowl sit firmly on the table.

The BÖRJA feeding spoon was given a long handle for reaching to the bottom of baby food jars, and a sharp angle between the handle and bowl of the spoon that's adapted to the feeding movement. Babies hold a spoon with their whole hand, switch hands often and eat from the sides of a spoon more often than from the front, so the BÖRJA baby spoon has a short and chunky handle for a better grip and a shallow, wide design to make it easier for them to get the spoon in their mouths from any angle. The spout of the BÖRJA training cup has been given very small holes instead of the typical spill-proof mechanism. The tight-fitting lid prevents big spills, but when turned upside down, liquid can still run out through the spout. This also lets children control the flow of liquid themselves. And since we found that children like to see what they’re drinking, part of the cup is transparent.

“We only create products that meet the highest safety standards and that we feel confident about using with our own children. They are made from the same safe plastic material as baby bottles and have no BPA added. We tested the prototypes and the final products at home, and we are convinced that SMÅGLI and BÖRJA will help other parents make eating sessions less messy and time-consuming – and much more enjoyable,” Wiebke concludes. “This is design based on real life experiences to improve the daily life of babies and their parents.”

Plastic is most commonly derived from oil and gas, which are non-renewable fossil sources. These sources do not renew themselves and will eventually be depleted. Our ambition is that by 2030, all plastic used in our products will be based on renewable or recycled materials. Renewable plastic is made from materials such as vegetable oil, corn, wheat grain and sugar cane. Recycled plastic allows us to give a second life to non-biodegradable products such as PET bottles that would otherwise end up in landfill. Using recyclable sources also lessens our dependency on oil as a raw material. Currently more than 40% of our plastic products are based on recycled and renewable materials and our aim is to reach 100%. As we add products made from recycled and renewable materials to our offer, we hope to inspire other companies to do the same.

Single-use plastic items pollute ecosystems if not disposed of responsibly. As part of our commitment to people and the planet, all single-use plastic products from the global home furnishing range were phased out in 2020. This includes items such as plates, cups, and plastic straws offered in our restaurants, bistros, and cafes. These were replaced by disposables made from 100% renewable sources.

Polythylene terephthalate (PET) and Polypropylene (PP) are durable, hygienic and shatter-resistant plastics. They absorb very little water and have good chemical resistance. Both PET and PP can be reused and recycled, which reduces waste and gives the product several lives through use and reuse. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world and can be used for many different purposes such as plastic bottles and containers for packaging food and beverages as well as for personal care products, pharmaceuticals and many other consumer products. At IKEA we mainly use recycled PET in boxes, filling material for textiles and kitchen front foil. PET is approved by health-agencies as safe to use for food and beverage. IKEA uses recycled PET that is post-consumer based, which means it is based on collected and sorted PET bottles.

IKEA takes product safety very seriously and all products are tested and comply with the strictest possible laws and safety standards on all IKEA markets. Customers should always feel confident that products bought at IKEA are safe and healthy to use. IKEA wants to minimize or totally refrain from the use of chemicals and substances that can be harmful to people and the environment.

Our journey towards only using recycled or renewable plastic will take some time and require new ways of doing things, but we are determined to take responsibility and find new solutions. We want to give our customers the possibility to choose products made from more sustainable materials that can be recycled again one day. Together, we can make a big difference!

BÖRJA Feeding and baby spoon

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IKEA celebrates 15 years in Russia | Motherhood

IKEA is celebrating an important date this year - 15 years since the beginning of work on the Russian market . The first IKEA retail store in Russia was opened on March 22, 2000 in Khimki near Moscow.

As employees recall, the success of the store was huge - residents of the city lined up to visit it. They appreciated the assortment of the store and its unusual format at that time. Here, visitors were not only not forbidden to touch the goods, they were offered to lie on mattresses, lay out sofas and open cabinet doors. Light wood furniture, bright textiles, thoughtful, functional solutions for every corner of the house - the Scandinavian style fell in love with customers and perfectly fit into the atmosphere of Russian houses.

Many visitors appreciated the opportunity to have a cup of coffee with a fragrant cinnamon bun right in the store, to refresh themselves with a hot dog or to have a hearty meal with a portion of real Swedish meatballs with creamy sauce and lingonberry jam. The children were delighted with the playroom with toys, sports equipment and, most importantly, a pool with balls.

Already in 2001, the second IKEA store was opened in the Teply Stan district near Moscow, and in 2003 the first regional store, IKEA Kazan, opened its doors.

IKEA now has 14 stores across the country, including three in Moscow, two in St. Petersburg and one each in Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan, Omsk, Ufa and Samara , and is one of the largest retailers in the home improvement segment. Plans are currently underway to build a fourth store in the Moscow region, in Mytishchi, as well as a store in Voronezh.

Over the 15 years of IKEA's work in Russia, the approach of residents to home improvement has changed significantly. This is evidenced by the results of a study conducted this summer by IKEA in conjunction with the Institute for Marketing Research GFK. Respondents were asked questions about how their attitude to home has changed over the past 15 years. More than 78% of respondents from cities where IKEA has a presence answered that they began to pay more attention to their home, with 67% saying that the home has become more personal, reflecting their interests and hobbies.

Undoubtedly, the fact that people in Russia have begun to love their home more and engage in its arrangement is caused by many socio-economic factors, including an increase in living standards, access to information, and much more. However, the study shows that IKEA also played a role in this process. So 63% of respondents are convinced that IKEA has changed their perception of interior design. 70% of survey participants answered that with solutions from IKEA they were able to make their home more comfortable and make better use of small space. 71% of respondents, thanks to IKEA, realized that it is easy to change the situation at home.

All IKEA interior solutions can be found on the pages of the annual catalogs. Every third of those surveyed keeps four IKEA catalogs at home. Every tenth collector of IKEA catalogs (13%) has personal catalogs with their own photo on the cover. In just 15 years, 112,000,000 catalogs have presented Russians with new ideas and inspiration for home improvement, the number of which will be replenished this fall with the release of the next IKEA catalog.

“In the 15 years that have passed since the opening of the first IKEA store in Russia, more than 179million people. It is very important for us that with the help of our solutions they were able to make their homes more comfortable, cozy, beautiful, bright and environmentally friendly.