At Keilhauer we have incorporated a big time goal to drive our efforts in future years. Our big time corporate goal is to use closed loop manufacturing to create products that support the person.

In managing our business we have key areas where we concentrate our efforts and each gets considerable attention. Planet Keilhauer is our environmental initiative. We feel that it is important that we work as quickly as possible to create a company that is environmentally benign (CLOSED LOOP).

The basic elements of our plan are to use others' waste (recycled materials) or sustainable sources of raw materials to create our products, to ensure that our products are fully recyclable, to use as few resources as possible in the manufacturing process and to ensure that we minimize or eliminate waste and emissions. We would like our footprint on the world to be very light.

Our Products

It is our goal to make our products out of materials that are recycled (the more post-consumer the better) and with no or very few emissions. All of our seating has been awarded GREENGUARD®; Internal Air Quality certification, and our Simple chair earned a Silver designation from the MBDC Cradle-to-Cradle™ certification program.

Once made, our products should last for a long time, and when their useful life is over, they should be fully recyclable. As an example of this, we have a 10-year warranty on our Tom series of chairs and will take them back for recycling once our customers have finished with them.

We have also started the process of life cycle analysis for all of our existing products and are incorporating it into the design and development of any new products in the future.

Many of these practices are already incorporated into our existing products. A cross section of our products reveals the following:

• Metal components are 100% recyclable and are made from up to 100% recycled material
• Almost all the plastic used in products is 100% recyclable
• All foam is CFC-free and is applied using water-based adhesives where appropriate
• Our hardwood frames are made of kiln dried maple sourced from sustainable forests wherever possible
• We also use engineered wood which utilizes waste wood and wood from fast-growing species
• Sawdust from wood manufacturing is recycled as animal bedding at farms
• Wood pieces and off cuts are collected and used in energy generation
• In the manufacture of our leather most of the waste products are reused
• Leather scraps resulting from cutting upholstery covers are recycled
• Cardboard waste from packaging materials is recycled