Lamin-Art Announces Company-Wide Environmental Initiative
Advertorial -- Interior Design, 7/14/2008 12:00:00 AM
Lamin-Art premium high-pressure decorative laminates have been at the forefront of design, inspiring unique commercial interior spaces for over 50 years. Products from our exclusive, yet charismatic collection of decorative surfacing materials can be found in high-profile restaurants, hotels, retail stores and more throughout the world. As a company, we feel it is a natural progression for us to encourage the innovative steps being taken by the Architecture and Design community to create more environmentally-sound interiors.
Let's Stop Professing Green and Start Enabling Green
Lamin-Art's eco-enable project not only strives to encourage creativity in interior environments, but to advance sound environmental stewardship in our manufacture and business practices, as well as to promote sustainability to our employees, customers, and suppliers.
"To us, sustainability isn't just a good marketing angle or a sound business decision; it's also a critical adjustment of our mindset as responsible members of the greater global community," says Donald Krog, Owner and President of Lamin-Art.
It Starts With our Products
As a committed and responsible member of the global community, we have always strived to manufacture our products in a manner that conserves energy and natural resources, and reduces pollution.
Our products do not contain, nor are they manufactured with ozone-depleting substances. In fact, our high-pressure decorative laminates have achieved GREENGUARD Indoor Air Quality Certification® and GREENGUARD Children and SchoolsSM meeting stringent third party qualifications for low-emitting products.
Naturally-Inspired Patterns and Designs
In 2006, we introduced Abacá, a decorative surface which utilizes the fibers of harvested banana plants to create an intriguing motif and texture.
And our collection of Premium Wood Prints accurately reproduces nature's beauty while protecting land and water from deforestation, as well as defending bio-diversity and animal habitats.
Taking the Next Step
Withthe eco-enable project, we're extending our environmental consciousness beyond the manufacture of our product and its contribution to the green building movement.
In 2007, we switched our corporate vehicle fleet to hybrid cars, providing cleaner and more fuel efficient transportation for our Architectural Representatives and company executives.
In addition, we have created an internal "green team" whose task is to come up with new and innovative ways to support environmental initiatives at our offices, support the efforts of our supply chain in promoting their own sustainability programs, and lead the way for change within our industry as a whole.
"There is no one magical formula to reverse the situation, but all of us can contribute to the solution," says Krog.
For more information, or to join our efforts, visit www.laminart.com/eco-enable.
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