Green
POLICY
To actively review and develop products and manufacturing processes that are environmentally sensitive.
- Focus on reducing our environmental footprint
- Help our community, customers, clients and suppliers reduce their environmental footprint
- Provide safe workplace
- Be prepared for environmental emergencies
- Reduce waste and encourage recycling
RESULTS
- Developed a water based edge hardening system to replace the industry standard epoxy resin system
- Developed a soft edge system that replaced over 50% of the hardened edge production
- Developed a fiberglass welding (lamination) system to fuse fiberglass panels together
- Developed the Impalit mounting system to reduce the metal required to hang acoustical panels
- Developed the Euromat finish to optimize light reflectance
- Focus on increased recycling results to keep our scrap to less than 0.25%
- Converted to HVLP spray systems to minimize over spray
- Converted our packaging from new wooden crates to recycled crates produced from recycled pallets for our suppliers and recycled particle board from local cabinet manufacturers