Published 09-21-06
Submitted by Interface, Inc.
"The industrialized world creates more harmful emissions than solid waste," said Ray Anderson. "The Clinton Foundation and CGI provide a platform for companies like Interface to demonstrate a better way; a better way to what we believe will ultimately be a bigger profit, for us and for mankind. Eliminating or offsetting greenhouse gas emissions is essential to our effort to reduce our carbon footprint. We make this commitment and invite the industrial world to join us on Mission Zero."
Interface Climate Initiatives/Background Interface is reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by minimizing the impacts of its manufacturing and office operations, minimizing transportation of people and products, and "greening" its supply chain through support and development of those raw materials, projects and processes that keep CO2 out of the atmosphere. This, combined with energy efficiency projects and investments in renewable energy sources and carbon offset projects, will get Interface to its goal of being a carbon neutral company by the year 2020. Interface is believed to be the largest corporate purchaser of voluntary carbon offsets in the U.S.
Interface initiatives aimed at greenhouse gas emission reduction include:
Interface Makes Climate Neutral COOL. Ultimately, reducing greenhouse gas emissions will slow global warming, an effect Interface calls COOL. Via its Cool Carpet program, Interface helps customers offset the emissions associated with the carpet or fabric they have purchased. Via Cool Fuel, Interface uses corporate fuel rebates to neutralize the climate affects of day-to-day travel by its associates and the Interface fleet. Cool Blue is the company's process by which carpet is recycled into new carpet backing. For more on these and other Interface initiatives, visit www.interfacesustainability.com.
About Interface, Inc. Atlanta-based Interface, Inc. (NASDAQ: IFSIA), is a global leader in the manufacture of environmentally-responsible floorcoverings and other textiles, through business units including Bentley Prince Street, InterfaceFABRIC, InterfaceFLOR Commercial, and FLOR. The company is committed to giving the marketplace a wide range of choices for specifying Earth-friendly and Environmentally Preferable Product-certified products, with the industry's first climate neutral carpet, Cool Carpet, and the only carpet product to be designed using biomimicry, the i2 collection from InterfaceFLOR Commercial. FLOR offers residential carpet products created from a rapidly renewable, corn-based polymer (polylactic acid - PLA) and InterfaceFABRIC's Terratex® commercial panel and upholstery fabric is made from fibers containing 100% post-consumer recycled polyester or 100% rapidly renewable PLA.
Interface, Inc. is the world’s largest manufacturer of modular carpet, which it markets under the InterfaceFLOR, FLOR, and Bentley Prince Street brands. Bentley Prince Street also is a leader in the designer-quality broadloom carpet market. In the mid-1990s, Interface’s Chairman and CEO Ray C. Anderson shifted the company’s strategy, aiming to redesign its industrial practices to instead focus on sustainability without sacrificing its business goals. Interface is committed to doing business in ways that minimize the impact on the environment. Interface companies have adopted an aggressive vision - To be the first company that, by its deeds, shows the entire industrial world what sustainability is, in all its dimensions: People, process, product, place and profits — by 2020 — and in doing so, to become restorative through the power of influence. In respecting that vision, every creative, manufacturing and building decision Interface makes, moves it closer to the goal of eliminating any negative impact Interface companies have on the environment.
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