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In Accepting Interface, EPA Recognizes Company Facility's Environmental
Performance
LaGrange, GA - Interface Flooring Systems, the world's leading
manufacturer of modular flooring products, is proud to announce that its Troup
County, Georgia, facilities have been accepted into the Environmental
Protection Agency's National Environmental Performance Track Program. With its
acceptance, the EPA recognizes them as one of the country's top-standing
facilities in the area of environmental performance with a record of regulatory
compliance, an operational environmental management system, a demonstrated
commitment to continuous improvement, and outreach to the local community and
the public. The manufacturing plants include the Ray C. Anderson (RCA) plant in
West Point and the Kyle plants in LaGrange. The RCA plant manufactures tufted
carpet products in preparation for the Kyle plant to back, cut, inspect and
package products for shipment. To measure its continuing environmental
progress, the EPA will be auditing it annually.
"We are more than pleased to participate in this important program," says
Claude Ouimet, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Interface
Flooring Systems. "Interface wants not only to be responsive, but also-and
especially-to be proactive in becoming a truly sustainable company. Joining the
EPA's National Environmental Performance Track Program is another positive step
in this effort."
According to the EPA: "The National Environmental Performance Track program is
designed to recognize and encourage top environmental performers -- those who
go beyond compliance with regulatory requirements to attain levels of
environmental performance and management that benefit people, communities, and
the environment."
Currently, the program has approximately 300 members that have been selected by
the EPA through a rigorous application process.
For 30 years Interface, which invented the free-lay carpet tile, has
consistently led in innovations of carpet and modular systems. Interface offers
award-winning designs on patented backing systems for a variety of end-use
applications. Interface is setting the pace for development of modular carpet
using materials and processes that take less from the environment as it strives
toward the ultimate objective of designing every product to be truly
sustainable. Interface's carpet manufacturing facilities are proud to maintain
third party registration to the ISO 14001 Environmental Management Standard and
the ISO 9001 Quality Management Standard.
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