Emeco

Emeco is an American furniture company, founded in 1944 as the Electric Machine and Equipment Company (Emeco). Now based in Hanover, Pennsylvania, it is best known for creating the 1006 Navy Chair, made from salvaged aluminium for US Navy submarines and still in production today.

Gregg Buchbinder acquired the company in 1998 and today Emeco works with a range of contemporary designers including Philippe Starck, Nendo and Barber & Osgerby.

Buchbinder told the story of how he rebuilt the company in an animated movie illustrated by Jean and Nicolas Jullien.

• Barber & Osgerby create chair for Emeco that can be endlessly recycled

  Emeco has teamed with London designers Barber & Osgerby for the first time to produce a stacking chair made from a specially developed recycled plastic. More

• Jean and Nicolas Jullien create playful animations to illustrate the story of Emeco

  Dezeen has teamed up with French illustrator Jean Jullien and his animator brother Nicolas to create this exclusive film, in which Emeco CEO Gregg Buchbinder tells the story behind five of the American furniture brand's chairs. More

• Jasper Morrison creates "one of the most complicated chairs" of his career for Emeco

  British designer Jasper Morrison will debut a collection of deceptively simple-looking seating and tables for American furniture brand Emeco at Milan design week. More

• Nendo adds cork seat to its sustainable range of SU stools for Emeco

  Japanese studio Nendo has released a new version of its environmentally friendly SU stool for Emeco, adding an interchangeable cork seat to the design. More

• IKEA settles with Emeco over claims it copied a Norman Foster chair

  Business news: American furniture brand Emeco has accepted an out-of-court settlement from IKEA after accusing the Swedish giant of copying the design of one of its chairs. More

• Jasper Morrison adds armchair to Alfi seating collection for Emeco

  Dezeen promotion: American furniture brand Emeco has launched a new armchair by British designer Jasper Morrison at this year's Milan design week, as part of his Alfi collection made using reclaimed materials (+ slideshow). More

• Industrial Facility designs plank-topped tables for Emeco

  Milan 2016: London studio Industrial Facility has designed a range of desks and tables for American furniture company Emeco based on canteen tables and park benches (+ movie). More

• Emeco launches new collection in Milan designed by Jasper Morrison

  Dezeen promotion: American furniture company Emeco has unveiled a new seating collection made using reclaimed materials by British designer Jasper Morrison at Milan's Salone Del Mobile furniture fair. More

• IKEA faces legal action over alleged copyright infringement

  American furniture brand Emeco is to sue IKEA for damages for allegedly copying a chair designed by Norman Foster. More

• Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar: Navy Chair by Emeco

  N is the next letter in our A-Zdvent calendar, represented by Emeco's lightweight aluminium Navy Chair designed for use on US submarines. More

• Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar: Icon Chair by Philippe Starck

  Philippe Starck's aluminium Icon Chair for American furniture brand Emeco is today's offering in our A-Zdvent calendar for 2014. More

• Emeco launches seat pads for the classic but cold 1006 Navy Chair

  Owners of Emeco's iconic Navy chair can finally avoid the shock of sitting on ice-cold aluminium with these purpose-made seat pads. More

• Emeco's eco-friendly stool by Nendo is "a system rather than a single piece of furniture"

  Milan 2014: Oki Sato of Nendo explains the concept behind the SU stool, which is based on American furniture company Emeco's iconic Navy Chair and features interchangeable seats made from recycled and reclaimed materials (+ movie).  More

• Philippe Starck adds stools made from recycled materials to his Broom collection for Emeco

  Milan 2014: Philippe Starck has developed a counter stool and bar stool to complement the Broom Chair he designed for American furniture brand Emeco using a material predominantly made from industrial waste. More

• Nendo reimagines the Navy Chair to create new stool for Emeco

  Milan 2014: American furniture company Emeco has revealed a collection of stools and tables made from recycled and reclaimed materials in collaboration with Nendo (+ slideshow). More

• Emeco settles further disputes over Navy Chair and Kong Chair replicas

  News: American furniture brand Emeco has reached a settlement in its legal dispute with two companies that were allegedly copying the company's Navy Chair and Kong Chair. More

• Airbnb removes "knockoff" Navy Chairs from new headquarters

  News: online home rental brand Airbnb is to replace a set of aluminium chairs at its new San Francisco headquarters after Emeco, the company that makes the original Navy Chair, pointed out that they were fakes. More

• "I felt we should change the way Emeco makes chairs" - Konstantin Grcic

  Movie: Designer Konstantin Grcic tells Dezeen that American furniture company Emeco had to industrialise its production methods to produce his new Parrish chair in this video interview filmed in Milan.  More

• “Milan is a breeding ground for people who copy our products”

  Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in this movie filmed in Milan earlier this month, leading designers and manufacturers discuss the phenomenon of copying and how they are responding. "It’s become an increasingly big problem for us," says Tom Dixon. "People can steal ideas and produce them almost faster than we can now." More

• Parrish by Konstantin Grcic for Emeco

  Milan 2013: a collection of furniture designed by Konstantin Grcic for Herzog & de Meuron's Parrish Art Museum in Long Island has gone into production with American brand Emeco. More