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Albany, NY - With Bentley Prince Street at 100% renewable electricity and significant
achievements in other Americas based business units, Interface, Inc. was today honored
with a Green Power Leadership Award presented by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Center for Resource Solutions (CRS)
at the National Green Power Marketing Conference. Interface was nominated for the award
by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and was recognized for its efforts to significantly
advance development of the green power market through green power purchases.
“Green power purchases are a key strategy in achieving our global goals for renewable
energy,” said Mike Bertolucci, Ph.D., president, Interface Research Corporation and senior
vice president, Interface, Inc. “Interface’s ten year commitment to sustainability has been
marked by tremendous progress on this front. The national green power market is growing
in response to demand from companies like ours that have identified and embraced the
importance of creating green power markets. It is in keeping with our sustainability vision
for us to continue to lead the way in hopes that others will join us on this journey.”
The particulars of Interface’s achievements include:
- Renewable energy credit (REC) purchases equivalent to 8,807 megawatt hours (mWh)
- Four Interface Fabrics facilities collectively committed to purchase 2,500 mWh/yr of
Green-e certified wind RECs to offset the electricity used in the manufacture of one million
linear yards of their Terratex® panel and upholstery fabric.
- Bentley Prince Street committed to a six-year purchase of RECs derived from biomass
and wind, equal to approximately 80% of their total electrical load. Coupled with the
renewable electricity they were already purchasing through the grid, and the electricity
they generated with an on-site photovoltaic array, Bentley Prince Street has now achieved
100% renewable electricity at their manufacturing facility in City of Industry, California.
- Interface Flooring Systems committed to purchase 408 mWh/yr of wind RECs
“The exceptional efforts of renewable energy marketers, purchasers and organizations
continue to develop the market for renewable energy, and produce results worthy of national
recognition,” said Jan Hamrin, Executive Director of CRS. “Their contributions through
innovative marketing and outreach lead to the green power transactions that stimulate
renewable energy generation, grow the economy, and help clean our air.”
The Interface companies have long been committed to those partnerships that have enabled
the positive growth of green power marketing in the U.S. Interface Fabrics, Bentley Prince
Street and Interface Flooring Systems are all members of the U.S. EPA’s Green Power
Partnership, and the corporation has been a member of the World Resources Institute’s
(WRI’s) Green Power Market Development Group since 2000.
“The most interesting aspect of Interface’s communication strategy is how Interface Fabrics
has used its RECs purchase as a tool for branding its products,” said Jennifer Layke, director
of business engagement for the World Resources Institute, and Interface’s nominator for
their award.
For example, the Terratex branding strategy was profiled in WRI’s 5th installment of its
Corporate Guide to Green Power Markets publication series which is distributed to over
1,000 energy and environment managers.
Atlanta-based Interface, Inc. (NASDAQ: IFSIA), is a global leader in the manufacture of
environmentally-responsible floorcoverings and other textiles, through business units including
Bentley Prince Street, Interface Fabrics, Interface Flooring Systems, InterfaceFLOR, Interface
Europe and Interface Asia-Pacific. The company is committed to giving the marketplace a
wide range of choices for specifying Earth-friendly and certified environmentally preferable
products. Interface introduced the industry’s first climate neutral carpet, Cool Carpet™, as
well as the only carpet product to be designed using biomimicry, the i2™ collection from
Interface Flooring Systems. The company introduced a residential carpet product (InterfaceFLOR)
created from the bio-based, plant-derived fiber, Ingeo™. Interface Fabrics offers the Terratex®
brand of commercial fabrics, the first to be made of 100% post consumer and post industrial
polyester and wool; now also available with bio-based fibers. For more information on
Interface’s environmental initiatives, visit these web sites: www.interfacesustainability.com and
www.terratex.com
Ingeo™ is a registered trademark of Cargill Dow LLC.
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