The Beautifully Responsible™ Notebook
What does Mindful Manufacturing™ mean?
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o be “mindful” means you are intentional and purposeful in all of your decisions. It also means you are keeping your customer’s best interest in mind always. Resilient flooring companies contribute to the Beautifully Responsible™ promise by Mindful Manufacturing.™. That means with every resilient floor you install from these manufacturers, you can be assured of their continued commitment to sourcing, designing, and manufacturing resilient flooring in ways that reflect sustainability leadership. Mindful Manufacturing™ means that they lead in environmental health and safety and take social responsibility. These manufacturers reduce energy, water, and waste in manufacturing. They make recycling a priority and put reclaimed manufacturing materials back into their products. Beautifully Responsible™ resilient manufacturers continually reduce embodied carbon, provide life-cycle impact transparency through Environmental Product Declarations, and continuously and proactively assess ingredients that go into their products while voluntarily removing the questionable ones. The truly beautiful meaning of Mindful Manufacturing™ is that resilient flooring manufactures create designs inspired by nature without ever harvesting nature’s exotic and precious species from nature. That’s how Beautifully Responsible™ resilient flooring manufacturers are always mindful of you, your family, and the environment for all of us. ■
The truly beautiful meaning of Mindful Manufacturing™ is that resilient flooring manufactures create designs inspired by nature without ever harvesting nature’s exotic and precious species from nature.
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