In 1947 the corporation began making card files from pieces of scrap metal generated from its contract business. More than fifty years later, The HON Company practices one of the industry's strongest and most comprehensive programs to conserve raw materials and reduce waste.
Today, environmental management is firmly embedded in all HON Company manufacturing processes. We define waste as anything that does not bring value to the customer, and life cycle considerations are a significant part of all product development efforts.
We believe in the integration of safety into environmental philosophy and policies. To us, safety and environment go hand in hand — our overriding goal is to increase safety at the same time we reduce our impact on the environment. Individual responsibility is a fundamental here, based on the knowledge that we each can impact the environment and workplace safety every day. We strive always to move beyond what we are required to do — to focus on what we are capable of doing.
At The HON Company, lean is green. The cellular manufacturing techniques we use across the company bring human scale to process requirements. To work in cells, processes have to be human-friendly. This serves to eliminate harmful solvents and reduce waste, enabling improvement of environmental performance and business performance at the same time — less waste equals less cost.
Green is not trendy; it's a part of our culture. It has always been a part of The HON Company's way of doing business.
LEED, DON'T FOLLOW.
The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) Green Building Rating SystemTM is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high-performance green buildings. LEED gives building owners and operators a road map for making environmentally conscientious decisions. Buildings can achieve LEED certification by meeting certain prerequisites and performance benchmarks ("credits"). Visit www.usgbc.org for more information on LEED certification.
Most HON products can contribute toward one or more LEED credits. Following are the areas where furniture is most likely to be included:
Materials and Resources
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Construction Waste Management - MR Credit 2.1 & 2.2
Intent: Reduce the amount of packing material delivered to the site. LEED-CI Reference Manual page 213
Capability: HON will work with client to minimize packaging according to client's ability to receive bulk shipment and blanket wrap. HON will provide documentation of volume avoidance per LEED-CI template.
Recycled Content - MR Credit 4.1 & 4.2
Intent: Value of Recycled Content (Postconsumer + 1/2 Preconsumer)
Capability: HON provides Environmental Data Sheets (EDS) for major products which report recycled material. Experience shows that the recycled content value factor for HON workstations will range from 16% to 26% depending on the client's final specification. HON will provide final documentation of recycled content of the client's final order per LEED-CI template.
Manufactured Regionally - MR Credit 5.1
Intent: Furniture manufactured within 500-mile radius of the jobsite.
Extracted and Manufactured Regionally - MR Credit 5.2
Intent: Furniture extracted, harvested, recovered, or manufactured within 500-mile radius of the jobsite.
Capability: HON products are manufactured in Muscatine, Iowa 52761, Cedartown, Georgia 30125, Florence, Alabama 35633, South Gate, California 90280-2699, Louisburg, North Caroline 27549, Owensboro, Kentucky 42303, Chester, Virginia 23836-2445, and Ciénega de Flores, Nuevo León, Mexico 65550.
Rapidly Renewable Materials – MR Credit 6.0
Intent: Use material and product made from plants that mature in 10 years or less to decrease impact on forests and longer life cycle plants.
Capability: The HON Company can provide Initiate with Nature Core. Nature Core is used inside the panel for tackability and acoustical control and is made from an annually renewable crop called kenaf. Initiate with Nature Core can contribute to this credit area.
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Environmental Quality
Low-Emitting Materials, Systems Furniture and Seating - EQ Credit 4.5
Strategy: Meet requirements of Table 1, LEED-CI Reference Manual page 322
Capability: HON workstations and most seating lines have been tested and independently certified as meeting LEED-CI EQ Credit 4.5 Option C. Clients should be aware that the LEED-CI indoor air quality evaluation process utilizes a standard workstation configuration. In practice, the wide range of options in worksurface and tile materials available for client selection often leads to a combination of materials which differs from the standard workstation used in the certification process.
HON will provide certification compliance with LEED-CI EQ Credit 4.5 as required by LEED-CI template. HON will also, if requested, assist the client in selecting material options with low environmental impact. |
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CLEARING THE AIR.
In 2006, The HON Company became the world's first office furniture manufacturer to have products certified by the Indoor AdvantageTM program. Virtually all manufactured products emit chemical compounds into the air. Indoor Advantage evaluates these compounds to help improve the air quality within enclosed indoor environments.
Developed by Scientific Certification Systems (SCS), Indoor Advantage subjects products to the most rigorous indoor air quality standards in the United States. Further, Indoor Advantage tests individual components as well as overall assemblies, and provides detailed analysis of a comprehensive range of chemicals rather than a simple pass/fail for only the most common. This enables us to help our suppliers reduce the environmental impact of their products and processes, too.
SCS offers two levels of certification:
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- Indoor AdvantageTM certifies conformance with LEED-CI criteria for EQ4.5, as well as BIFMA X7.1 Low-Emitting Furniture and Seating.
- Indoor Advantage GoldTM certifies additional conformance with California 01350 Special Environmental Requirements and Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS).
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Indoor Advantage Gold is our goal for all products. Visit Scientific Certification Systems' Web site to learn more about Indoor Advantage.
Indoor Advantage Gold Certified Products:
Cubicals
- Initiate® Panel Systems - Initiate® workstations constructed with Nature CoreTM fiberboard and low emitting worksurfaces, qualify for Indoor AdvantageTM Gold level certification.
Files & Storage
- All Metal Storage and Files
Chairs
- 1080 Series Stacking Chairs
- 24 Hour Chairs (77X4 Series)
- 4051 Multi-Purpose Chair
- 5400 Series Seating
- 7700 Series Seating
- 7800 Series Seating
- Alaris™ Seating (4220 Series)
- Allure™ Seating (3300 Series)
- ComforTask® (5900 Series)
- Convergence® Contemporary Seating (4900 series)
- Every-Day® Chair (7900 Series)
- F3™ Series Seating
- Gamut® Seating (2070 Series)
- GuestStacker® (4030 Series)
- High Density Olson Stacker® (4040 Series)
- Olson Series
- Pagoda® (4070 Series)
- Park Avenue Collection® Seating (5020 Series, 5060 Series)
- Perpetual® Seating (4300 Series, 4320 Series, PN Series)
- Pillow-Soft™ Seating (2090 Series)
- Proficiency™ 4-Leg Chairs (H101X Series)
- Pyramid™ Seating (3500 Series)
- Resolution® Seating (6200 Series)
- Sensible Seating® (6000 Seating)
- Solutions Seating® (4000 Series)
- Teacher/Student Shell Seating (TS Series)
- Tiempo® Seating (4600 Series)
- Unanimous® (7600 Series)
- ValuTask® (5831 Series)
Education
- AccomplishTM Classroom Furniture
Indoor Advantage Certified Products:
Laminate Casegoods Workstations
- Park Avenue Collection®
- ValidoTM Series
- 10500 Series
- 10600 Series
- 10700 Series
- 94000 Series
Wood Chairs
- 370 Series
- 2400 Series
- 2900 Series
- 6540 Series
- 6550 Series
- Invitation® Guest Wood Seating (2110 Series)
- Jackson Traditional Wood Seating (6570 Series)
- Meadowbrook® Traditional Wood Seating (6500 Series)
- Park Avenue Collection® Seating (5000 Series)
- Pillow-Soft®Executive Wood Seating (2191 Series)
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