What happened to ESI

Fellowes states it on its own transition page: “The ESI brand has officially transitioned to Fellowes.” The monitor arms, tables, lighting and power products now sit under Fellowes Contract Interiors.

ESI’s website went with it. esiergo.com is a parking page now, so the assembly guides and spec sheets it used to host are gone. The Enmo had already been moved to ESI’s discontinued list before that happened. If you ever downloaded the paperwork for yours, hang onto it, because the specification sheet linked at the bottom of this page is the copy I have.

The Fellowes transition page announces the change and points you to Contract Interiors. It says nothing about warranties, nothing about replacement parts, nothing about service, and nothing about where the documentation went. If you own an Enmo, that gap is the whole problem. I am not going to tell you Fellowes will honour a 15-year structural warranty on an ESI-branded base, because Fellowes has not said that anywhere I can find. If you need that answered, you have to ask them directly.

What the Enmo actually was

A two-leg electric table base, sold as a base rather than a finished desk, with the worksurface ordered separately. Two motors drove two-stage T-legs through 17.4 in of travel, from 27.4 in at the bottom to 44.8 in at the top. Those figures are the base alone. Put a one-inch top on it and your actual working surface sits somewhere around 28.4 to 45.8 in off the floor, which is my arithmetic rather than a published spec, but it is the number that matters when you are deciding whether the thing will fit you.

It lifted 220 lb at 1.3 in per second. Soft start and stop, anti-collision cutoff, three base finishes in silver, black and white. The frame telescoped from 39.8 to 71.0 in to suit tops between 48 and 72 in.

The control was a keypad with an up button and a down button. That is the whole interface. No memory presets, so every time you moved between sitting and standing you held a button and watched the top until it looked right. Plenty of desks worked this way in 2020. It is still the spec I would grumble about most on a daily basis.

The compliance side was serious, which is what you would expect from a base sold into offices rather than bedrooms. UL962 listed, and rated to meet or exceed BIFMA X5.5, the furniture industry’s desk and table standard.

Why it was never going to work in a corner

This site is called Corner Nook, so this is the question I actually care about, and the spec sheet answers it without any interpretation needed. ESI offered six worksurfaces for the Enmo. Three widths, 48, 60 and 72 in. Two depths, 24 and 30 in. Six rectangles. There was never a corner top or an L-shaped top on the list.

The Enmo is a straight span between two legs, and the shortest span it will make is 39.8 in. A corner worksurface needs support where its two arms meet, and a two-leg straight frame has nothing to put there.

So an Enmo in a corner room means running a rectangle along one wall and leaving the corner itself empty. Fine, and honestly that is what most people should do anyway. If you genuinely want the surface to wrap the corner, you need either a three-leg base built for a corner top, or two separate bases at right angles. Two bases means two keypads that do not talk to each other, which means raising your desk in two moves and eyeballing whether the halves ended up level.

If you already own one

The numbers above are the ones from ESI’s own specification sheet, so if you are trying to work out whether your Enmo will clear a windowsill or slide under a shelf, measure against 44.8 in for the base at full height plus whatever your top is thick.

For anything you cannot answer from a spec sheet, parts, a dead motor, a warranty claim, the assembly sequence, Fellowes Contract Interiors is the only address left. The old esiergo.com support pages are not coming back.

If you were shopping for one

Fellowes currently lists nine table series under Contract Interiors: All-Flex, Victory LX, Triumph LX, Trada, Rejuve, Espree, Q-Crank, Zona and Motific. The Enmo is not among them and there is no direct replacement carrying the name.

By construction the nearest thing is Triumph LX, which Fellowes describes as a two-leg base on two-stage adjustable legs, the same arrangement the Enmo used. I have not measured one, so treat that as a starting point for your own reading rather than a recommendation from me. The same caution about corners applies to all of them: check the worksurface list before you fall for the base, because the top is what decides whether it fits your room.

What is wrong with it

Drawbacks

Questions people ask

Read how I check numbers.