Evolve Environmental Success Story

Evolve is a privately owned company that takes great pride in providing total commitment to its employees and strong support for family values. Evolve is recognized as the country’s leading manufacturer of office furniture and as such, acknowledges the need for the industry to be environmentally responsible for the welfare of future generations. It is with these basic values in mind that Evolve approaches the issue of environmental management.

Evolve’s management has committed itself to the following principles with regards to the environment:

1. To provide customers with products that, through their entire life cycle, minimize the negative impacts on the environment.
   
   
2. Continual improvement of Evolve’s Environmental Management System and the prevention of pollution.
   
   
3. To comply with both the spirit and the letter of all relevant environmental legislation and regulations.
   
   
4. To maintain and support the implementation of the following environmental principles within the company:

• Environmental policy & procedures
  
• Environmental objectives & targets
  
• Compliance with environmental legislation & regulations
  
• Continual improvement
  
• Promoting and supporting the implementation of ISO 14001:2004
  
• Providing environmental leadership
  
• Compliance with all voluntary environmental programs

Evolve’s management recognizes that these principles and policies are not only the right thing to do from a moral perspective; they also make good business sense and must be pursued vigorously.

Evolve’s Environmental Programs.

• Reduced electricity & gas consumption.
  
• Pollution prevention via reduced Volatile Organic
  Compounds (VOC) emissions to the air.
  
• Source separation of waste to landfill.
  
• Re-forestation through the Tree Foundation of Canada,
  by recycling our printer cartridges and fine paper.
  
• Use of water based adhesives in our manufacturing process.
  
• Fabric options made of 100% recycled material from
  post industrial waste.
  
• Use of honeycomb, made from 75% recycled Kraft paper.
  
• Productive use of plastic and wood waste from other Global divisions in the manufacturing process.
  
• Use of 100% extruded, recycled PVC to make our horizontal supports on the Evolve Panel System.
  
• Compressed packaged materials made of 75%
  recycled cardboard.