Three finalists named for AHFA's Sage Award
Heath E Combs -- Furniture Today, October 28, 2011
HIGH POINT - Crypton Super Fabrics, Leggett & Platt Home Furniture Components and Sauder Woodworking have been named finalists for the 2011 Sage Award.
The award, sponsored by the American Home Furnishings Alliance and Cargill's BiOH polyols business unit, recognizes environmental excellence in the home furnishings and bedding industries.
The winner, who receives $2,500 from Cargill for a donation to their chosen environmental cause or charitable organization, will be announced Oct. 22 during the Opening Day Press Breakfast at the High Point Market.
The competition, in its fourth year, is open to retail, manufacturing and supplier companies in the furniture and bedding industries.
Finalists will be featured in a video that spotlights their environmental achievements. The videos will be presented on Feb. 22 at AHFA's 2012 Sustainability Summit in Raleigh, N.C.
The videos also will be featured on the Sage Award website, www.SageAward.org, for a year.
Crypton produces fabric with an environmentally friendly, patented coatings process that is engineered into the fabric, encapsulating every fiber, the AHFA said. It added that the company's manufacturing facility in Kings Mountain, N.C., leverages best practices to consume less water and energy, emit less pollution and reduce the use of packaging materials.
All 13 Leggett & Platt Home Furniture Components facilities in six states are implementing AHFA's EFEC environmental management system, and three of the largest have achieved registration. Since beginning the effort in 2008, the 13 facilities have realized significant reductions in energy and water use and have reduced raw material, waste and packaging use, the AHFA said.
Sauder Woodworking, noted for its reuse of scrap material, since 2010 has invested more than $2 million in processes to recover and reuse wood waste, $1.5 million to convert lighting in more than 4 million square feet of manufacturing space, and $1.7 million in a system to optimize air flow and reduce energy use, according to the AHFA.
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