All of our manufacturing plants are located in low to medium water-related risk areas, as defined by the World Resource Institute (WRI) Water Risk Atlas, and all of our plants meet or exceed regulatory requirements. 

To control and reduce water use, we have installed low-flow restroom fixtures in our facilities and use flow restrictors to limit water use in moisture-intensive operations, including log storage to prevent splitting and cracking. Additionally, steam leak surveys have helped us prevent the escape of steam into the air, further reducing water waste.

Protecting furniture during transport and delivery requires packaging, but we do as much as we can to avoid the use of excess packaging materials that will end up in landfills.

At our manufacturing plant in Orleans, Vermont, we custom-cut cardboard to fit the furniture being packaged. In our Maiden, North Carolina, upholstery plant, we custom-cut shrink wrap to fit each upholstery piece. After delivery, we even recycle the polypropylene protectors that we place over the feet of our furniture.

Any lumber or scrap wood that goes unused in our workshops, including wood chips and sawdust, is recycled to power both our lumber-drying kilns and the furnaces that heat our wood furniture plants. 

Our Vermont wood furniture workshops haven’t used fossil fuels for heating in more than a decade—and in a place where the average high temperature is around 28°F in January, that’s quite an accomplishment.