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Encore Achieves SCS Indoor Air Quality Certification
5.27.10 | Cerritos, CA | Southern California-based
Encore announces SCS Indoor Advantage™ certification for its entire
product line, which includes executive, conference, task and multipurpose seating.
Scientific Certification Systems, Inc. (SCS), a reputable third-party certification and assessment body of environmental, sustainability and safety claims since 1984, has developed internationally recognized standards and certification programs to assist businesses with improving their environmental efforts, social accountability and product performance.
Estimating that many people spend as much as 90% of their time indoors - be it in offices, classrooms and homes - SCS has identified a variety of factors that can lead to the emission of volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, that can detrimentally affect our health and well being. The Indoor Advantage™ certification program tests products generally used in indoor environments, such as seating solutions, hard surface flooring, wall coverings and insulation. Rather than test environments for their total VOC concentration, SCS tests individual products to help companies identify, address and improve upon any sources of chemical contaminants found during the manufacturing process.
“Encore is dedicated to creating high quality seating products, while maintaining intelligent environmental policies and practices. Achieving SCS Indoor Advantage™ certification has validated our corporate philosophy standards,” says Encore President, Casey Journigan.
The advantages of holding SCS Indoor Air Quality certification are substantial: in addition to improving indoor working environments and meeting qualifications for the LEED-CI EQ 4.5 credit for office furniture as well as the BIFMA Standard for Low-Emitting Office Furniture Systems & Seating M-7.1 and X-7.1., there is the added assurance of knowing that the company’s entire breadth of products is held to such rigorous standards.
Each and every Encore chair meets the requirements for SCS Indoor Advantage™. The certified product lines include Cerra, Chance, Escape, Flurry, Impact, Intensity, Keynote, Lingo, Memento, Nexxt, Realm, Saga, Trios and Verity, along with select task models under the Encore On-Q brand.
With more than a decade of success in the contract seating industry under its belt, Encore continues to strive toward making sustainable improvements in all areas of its manufacturing process in an effort to positively contribute to healthy environments today, and for future generations to come.
Scientific Certification Systems, Inc. (SCS), a reputable third-party certification and assessment body of environmental, sustainability and safety claims since 1984, has developed internationally recognized standards and certification programs to assist businesses with improving their environmental efforts, social accountability and product performance.
Estimating that many people spend as much as 90% of their time indoors - be it in offices, classrooms and homes - SCS has identified a variety of factors that can lead to the emission of volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, that can detrimentally affect our health and well being. The Indoor Advantage™ certification program tests products generally used in indoor environments, such as seating solutions, hard surface flooring, wall coverings and insulation. Rather than test environments for their total VOC concentration, SCS tests individual products to help companies identify, address and improve upon any sources of chemical contaminants found during the manufacturing process.
“Encore is dedicated to creating high quality seating products, while maintaining intelligent environmental policies and practices. Achieving SCS Indoor Advantage™ certification has validated our corporate philosophy standards,” says Encore President, Casey Journigan.
The advantages of holding SCS Indoor Air Quality certification are substantial: in addition to improving indoor working environments and meeting qualifications for the LEED-CI EQ 4.5 credit for office furniture as well as the BIFMA Standard for Low-Emitting Office Furniture Systems & Seating M-7.1 and X-7.1., there is the added assurance of knowing that the company’s entire breadth of products is held to such rigorous standards.
Each and every Encore chair meets the requirements for SCS Indoor Advantage™. The certified product lines include Cerra, Chance, Escape, Flurry, Impact, Intensity, Keynote, Lingo, Memento, Nexxt, Realm, Saga, Trios and Verity, along with select task models under the Encore On-Q brand.
With more than a decade of success in the contract seating industry under its belt, Encore continues to strive toward making sustainable improvements in all areas of its manufacturing process in an effort to positively contribute to healthy environments today, and for future generations to come.
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