Krug is continuously committed to incorporating environmental sustainability in all our business practices and manufacturing processes. We feel it is important to provide well-designed furniture in the most environmentally responsible way possible.

Krug continues to strive for better ways to reduce our environmental footprint by achieving initiatives in FSC Certification and GREENGUARD Indoor Air Quality Certification. We will continue to find ways to improve our environmental impact, as we realize how important it is to leave the planet as we found it for future generations.

KRUG'S Committment to the Environment

Krug is a leading designer and producer of office furnishings and has become one of the industry's fastest growing, dynamic furniture companies. Our extensive use of carefully chosen wood materials, our Enduraguard finish and our selections of superior hardware, have all contributed to the quality of our products. We recognize that integrating sound environmental practices into all aspects of our business will enable us to preserve the environment and resources for future generations.

KRUG'S committed to:

• Conducting business in a socially acceptable and responsible manner.
• Ensuring the Management Team supports and promotes all current and future environmental objectives and procedures set forth in this policy.
• Recycling and reducing waste materials whenever possible throughout the company, manufacturing and design processes.
• Utilizing materials which minimize the impact on our environment - products that emit low Volatile Organic Compounds, have a high pre-consumer/post-consumer recyclable content, sourcing sustainable, renewable resources (veneers, lumber and particle board) and sourcing materials closer to home whenever possible.

Krug will strive to create products that are manufactured in a way that conserves energy, materials and prevent pollution.

Krug will be open and responsive to the environmental expectations of our customers, staff members and government agencies by providing clear and candid information about the environmental impact of our products and operations.

Our commitment to the environment is a social and legal responsibility, as well as an opportunity for Krug to contribute to the preservation of the natural environment for future generations.

Krug's Environmental Program

Krug maintains a program to reduce the impact on the environment of our products and operations. The program has produced significant improvements in a number of areas, thanks to the efforts of everyone at Krug, and in particular to those that have coordinated the numerous facets of the program.

Hardwood Lumbers and Veneers

All of our wood materials are taken from areas in Canada and the United States maintaining the practice of sustained forest management. The practice of harvesting sustainably grown timber in North America has increased the size of hardwood forests, with more trees being planted each year. In contrast to furniture using other types of unsustained raw material, wood is a material that is being naturally sustained within the North American ecosystem. Krug utilizes a number of processes for maximizing the yield of our wood materials, including their extensive use for internal product components. Unusable wood is reduced to sawdust and is used in our central heating system at our seating factory providing up to 80 percent of that facilities heating requirements annually.

Finishing and Chemical Material

All of this type of waste is sent to a waste management firm for reprocessing. Internal solvent emissions are tested regularly for compliance with the Ministry of the Environment standards. Krug has had all of its lands tested by an independent auditor to verify the nonexistence of environmental toxins.

Fabrics and Leathers

All of our waste is recycled in our upholstery process as decking for chair and sofa seats. Our leather scraps are sold to a local maker of leather children's toys. We have been successful in reducing fabric and leather waste by improving the nesting of parts in our fabric cutting patterns, which has also reduced the amount of fabric customers have to send us for COM orders.