The best workplace environments don’t come from a furniture catalog. They’re formed through conversations about how your people work, what your company values most, and where your current space falls short. At COREoi, these conversations are at the forefront of our office design projects.
In addition, our expertise is built on the deep relationships we have with workplace furniture and design partners whose capabilities we know inside and out. This ensures that every recommendation we make is based on what suits the project best.
For this and more, we’re proud to partner with Teknion.
Teknion: A Little Bit Different
Teknion doesn’t approach workplace furniture the way most manufacturers do. Founded in 1981 and still family-owned, they’ve grown into one of the world’s largest contract furniture manufacturers. All the while, they retain the agility of a boutique design company.
Values That Shape Every Project
Four characteristics define how Teknion works:
- Creative Collaborators. Modifying products to meet specific needs is not an exception to their process. It is their process. Because they own their manufacturing, they can adapt, adjust, and re-tool products to fit the requirements of any project.
- Culture of Design. Design thinking is embedded in Teknion’s DNA. It informs not just furniture and textiles, but how they approach problem-solving at every level.
- Vertical Integration. While the industry trend moved toward outsourcing, Teknion continued to invest in owning their production. This commitment gives them control over quality, cost, and delivery timelines, and allows for extraordinary custom capabilities.
- Sustainability as Practice. Sustainability at Teknion is intrinsic to their culture. They hold themselves to science-based carbon reduction targets validated by the SBTi, and they pursue absolute emissions reduction rather than relying on offsets.
What Teknion Makes
Teknion’s portfolio spans everything the modern workplace demands, including private office furniture, open-plan systems, seating, tables, architectural interiors, and contract textiles. Their workplace furniture lines cover every corner of the office.
The tables, workspaces, and casegoods collections bring millwork-quality cabinetry into private offices and collaborative spaces. In seating, their collection exemplifies their approach: a family of chairs spanning task, conference, and lounge applications, built around a minimal tubular steel frame with 3D-knitted recycled polyester upholstery for comfort and a low carbon footprint.
Beyond furniture, Teknion offers architectural products that shape space itself, like flexible, modular partitioning systems designed to define open-plan areas without sacrificing light or connection. Through Studio TK, Teknion focuses on social applications within the workplace, with products like modular seating systems and the Modus-Bob stool, crafted from 100% recycled cork waste from wine bottle production.
Their in-house textile brand, Luum, creates contract-grade fabrics with sustainability woven into the development process. Under the creative direction of Teknion’s team, Luum produces collections featuring recycled and biodegradable materials, with 70% of the portfolio carrying a sustainable impact attribute.
Why Teknion?
In an industry that long ago raced toward outsourcing, Teknion stayed different. They remain privately held and vertically integrated, meaning that they still make what they sell. For our clients, that infrastructure translates into genuine flexibility.
When a workplace calls for a modification, an adaptation, or a completely custom approach, Teknion’s manufacturing model makes it possible. Not as a concession, but as a standard practice. That matters a lot, but only when it’s matched with the right project, the right budget, and the right outcome. That’s where COREoi comes in.
The COREoi Difference
At COREoi, we build the strategy before we ever reach for a product. We align with your team and your goals, working to understand how people collaborate, where friction lives in the current space, and what your company is trying to achieve with this project. From there, we develop a plan that overcomes obstacles before they become problems. The product conversation follows the strategy, never the other way around.
Executing that strategy means leveraging our partnerships to deliver the best end-to-end service possible. Take Teknion. Their SBTi-validated carbon targets, their Divert decommissioning program, their material transparency documentation: we don’t just pass that information along. We integrate it into your reporting and your real-world goals. We handle the complexity so sustainability shows up in your space, not just your mission statement.
That’s the COREoi model: align with the customer’s vision, bring the right partners to the table, remove obstacles at every turn, and bring the organization’s vision to life.
The Partnership Philosophy
Teknion brings something distinctive: a willingness to say yes to modifications, a Design for the Environment framework that builds longevity into products from the start, and a vertically integrated model that keeps quality consistent.
COREoi brings the expertise to apply those strengths where they create the most impact. The result is something no catalog can replicate: a workplace shaped around how your people work and orchestrated by a team that knew why it would work from the beginning.
