Fast Facts

At-a-glance information about InterfaceFLOR and its Mission Zero achievements to date.

• InterfaceFLOR is the modular flooring division of Interface Inc., based in Atlanta, USA. The company is a worldwide leader in the production of environmentally-responsible flooring and other textiles.
• Interface, Inc. is listed on NASDAQ.
• InterfaceFLOR provides quality modular flooring solutions to a variety of different markets including corporate office, hospitality, leisure, education, healthcare and retail.
• Heuga Home Flooring in Europe is the company's residential division, providing stylish products for the modern home interior
• In Europe, InterfaceFLOR has manufacturing facilities in Craigavon Northern Ireland; Halifax, West Yorkshire and Scherpenzeel in Holland, plus sales offices in most major cities.
• The company employs 3,673 people globally with a turnover in 2008 $1.082 billion USD.
• Interface’s corporate vision is to become, by 2020, the first company to show, by its deeds, the entire industrial world what sustainability is in all its dimensions - people, process, product, place and profits.
• Mission Zero is Interface’s promise to achieve a zero environmental footprint by 2020. The company considers the impact of every decision made at all levels in the company to ensure that it is moving closer to its goal.
• Since 1996, the company has made considerable progress towards its 2020 vision:
  
  

  Actual reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissons (GHG) by 44% from baseline 1996;

  Total energy consumption per unit of output down – 43%.

  Non-renewable energy is down by 60% since 1996 per unit of production.

  Global energy consumption from renewables – 30%.

  Renewable electricity used in manufacturing in Europe – 100%.

  Reduction in waste from manufacturing to landfill since 1996 80%.

  Global water reduction reduced by 80%.

  Total of recycled or bio-based raw materials – 36%.

  
  All of these initiatives have resulted in cumulative avoided costs of $ 433 million US dollars.
• Interface uses offsetting to counteract the emissions of business-related activities that are not easily avoidable. For example, since 1997, the company’s Trees for Travel™ programme has offset all business related air travel.
• Interface also aims to encourage its employees to adapt a more environmentally-friendly attitude to their every day life. This is evident from the Cool Fuel™ and Cool Co₂mmute™ programmes, which enables employees to ensure that their transport to and from work causes as little damage as possible to the environment.
• In 2007, InterfaceFLOR launched a new report called ‘Sustainable Futures’. The report brings together six separate views on the key issues for sustainable businesses from very different organisations such as: Forum for the Future; the Design Council and the Climate Group. The report looks at future challenges and opportunities to become more sustainable and shares a common theme throughout, there is a brighter future if we only dare to imagine it.