Knoll Chair Earns Sustainability Certification

November 17, 2008  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Home Office on November 2008 Knoll announced Monday that its Chadwick task chair has been granted a Sustainable Gold rating under the SMaRT Consensus Sustainable Product Standard.

The designation is granted by the Institute for Market Transformation to Sustainability (MTS), a non-profit group. The group’s certification process measures a product’s environmental, economic and social benefits over its life and throughout the supply chain, from raw materials to reclamation and re-use. SMaRT-certified products can contribute to achieving a LEED Innovation in Design credit.

Chadwick is the second product in the furniture industry to be SMaRT-certified after Knoll’s Life chair earned the SMaRT Sustainable Gold rating in March. Both feature efficient use of materials, recyclable content and easily replaceable parts. The two chairs are manufactured at Knoll’s East Greenville, Pa., factory, which has a LEED Gold certification and is 100 percent powered by wind energy.

“We are pleased with our progress in implementing SMaRT certification for Chadwick because it considers all three criteria of the sustainability triple bottom line: environmental, social and economic impacts,” said Lou Newett, Knoll environmental health and safety manager. “We believe this standard is the most meaningful certification too for sustainable products.”