Welcome to Club Resource Group

The Club Resource Group Green Initiative

Club Resource Group LEED: About

Club Resource Group is committed to sustainable design practices and believes in using green products to create healthy buildings while minimizing the impact on the environment. We believe everyone involved in the building process should take an active role in implementing responsible consumption practices and advance sustainable building practices wherever possible. We are dedicated to protecting the environment and the health and safety of our employees as well as the planet’s.

Club Resource Group is further committed to helping its customers to help achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification and other standards issued by the US Green Building Council. Look for the “X” symbol on our site. Wherever you see it you’ll know the product contains criteria needed to achieve LEED certification. A complete list of these products and the main green governing bodies Club Resource Group supports is below.
Design. Plan. Furnish.

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Mondo Rubber Flooring

Products including Mondo Carpet and MondoTurf are low maintenance, easy to recycle for applications such as highway construction, flooring and landscaping and compliant with the California Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) section 01350. They are free of PVC, halogen, CFCs, plasticizers, chlorine, heavy metals, asbestos and alloyed chemicals, and make excellent alternatives to products made from PVC and polycarbonate. Inherently antibacterial, Mondo’s flooring does not require the addition of synthetic components that are both toxic and environmentally harmful. They release almost no fumes (off-gassing) or VOCs (VOC compliance ASTM D 5116). Mondo's MP 500 non-toxic, water-based acrylic adhesive falls well below VOC limits. All Mondo adhesives meet SCAQMD regulations of content for VOCs. Mondo's products contribute to numerous LEED points including:

Materials and Resources

Credit 4.1—Recycled content: 5%
Credit 4.2—Recycled content: 10%
Credit 5.1—Regional materials
Credit 6 —Rapidly renewable materials

Indoor Environmental Quality

Credit 4.1—Low-emitting materials: adhesives and sealants

Dodge-Regupol Rolled Rubber Floor

Dodge-Regupol, Inc. has earned ISO 9001:2000 Registration from QMI™ Management Systems Registration for the following products.

Everlast Rubber Floors

Meets or exceeds two of six criteria for LEED NC, and can assist in gaining up to seven points towards LEED Certification in the following areas:

Materials & Resources Construction Waste Management MR 2.11
Recycle and/or salvage at least 50% of non-hazardous construction and demolition debris. Develop and implement a construction waste management plan that, minimally, identifies materials to be diverted from disposal and if that waste well be sorted on-site or commingled. Calculations can be done by weight or volume, but must be consistent throughout.
Construction Waste Management MR 2.2 1
Recycle and salvage an additional 25% beyond MR 2.1 (75% total) of non-hazardous construction and demolition debris.
Recycled Content MR 4.1 1
Uses materials with recycled content so that the sum of post-consumer recycled content plus one half (the value of) the pre-consumer content constitutes at least 10% of the total value of the project’s materials.
Recycled Content MR 4.2 1
Uses materials with recycled content such that the sum of post-consumer recycled content plus one half (the value of) the pre-consumer content constitutes at least 20% of the total value of the project’s materials.
Local/Regional Materials MR 5.1 1
Uses building materials or products extracted, harvested or recovered, as well as manufactured, within 500 miles of the project site for a minimum of 10 % (based on cost) of the total material value. If only a fraction of a product or material is extracted/harvested/recovered and manufactured locally, then only that percentage (by weight) shall contribute to regional value.
Local/Regional MR 5.2 1
Same as MR 5.1 1 but with a minimum of 20% of the total material value.
Indoor Environmental Quality Low-Emitting Materials EQ 4.1 1
Adhesives and sealants must be lower than the current VOC content limits of South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) Rule #1168.
EVERLAST Performance Flooring is comprised of shredded and cleaned SBR tire rubber (100% post-consumer waste)and colorful EPDM flecks (30% pre-consumer waste). The result—a polymerically bound floor with very high-recycled content. Note that color choice determines the percentage of recycled content (varies between 70.3% to 90.63%). EGrip glue is a low VOC 50% lower VOC than the most demanding US standard (SCAQMD Rule #1168).

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Robbins Wood Floors

This flooring company employs state-of-the-art manufacturing to reduce environmental impact and uses materials from FSC credited sources. Design of sub-floor in Mach 1 reduces materials needed. Robbins also uses low VOC finishes, and pre-finished materials containing VOC. Its bio-sports pad is made from 100% recycled material. Our Robbins products can assist in gaining up to 6 points of LEED certification including:

MR Credit 4.2—Recycled content
MR Credit 3—Resource reuse
MR Credit 7—Certified wood
EQ Credit 4.1—Low-emitting materials: adhesives and sealants
IEQ Credit 4.2—Low-emitting materials: paints and coatings
EQ Credit 4.4—Low-emitting materials: composite wood

Green Organizations

Club Resource Group supports the standards of the following green governing bodies:

US Green Building Council (USGBC)

Established in 1993, the USGBC manages the LEED Green Building Rating System, oversees local chapters and developed the LEED accreditation exam (outsourced) in 2001.

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)

LEED membership is accredited by USGBC, and develops benchmarks by which green buildings are rated. It also reviews materials and third party certifiers for green materials designs.

Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)

This non-profit certification group accredits landowners and organizations that conscientiously thin (not deplete) forests.

Green Seal

A non-profit certification group that promotes manufacture and use of environmentally conscientious products like cleansers, soaps and paints. Green Seal has established a cleaning service standard and is a big proponent of recycled materials.

South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD)

Regulates standards of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) in Southern California.

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Club Resource Group operates a state of the art locker and case goods manufacturing plant located in Tracy, CA. This FSC certified plant produces high quality locker and case good products that can contribute to the following LEED Credit categories:

MR Credit 4.1 & 4.2: Recycled Content (2 points)
MR Credit 5.2 & 5.2: Regional Materials (2 points)
MR Credit 7: Certified Wood (FSC) (1 point)
EQ Credit 4.1: Low emitting materials: Adhesives and Sealants (1 point)
EQ Credit 4.4: Low emitting materials: Composite wood and laminate adhesives (1 point)

Please contact your Club Resource Group representative for more information regarding LEED and our green initiatives.

Click here to see CRG's FSC Accredited Chain of Custody Certificate.

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For over thirty years Salman has demonstrated its concern for the environment in water quality, air quality, hazardous waste, energy efficiency and recycling. The company generates no waste water, operates under the strict air quality guidelines of the AQMD, and has greatly eliminated hazardous wastes.

In the area of energy efficiency, the company’s policies and Southern California climate have combined to enable great efficiencies. With regard to recycling, the principal component of our manufacturing process is produced almost exclusively from by-products or recycled materials.

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Environmental Summary Statement

As a USA Manufacturer based in Senatobia , MS , Chromcraft is committed to promoting sustainable work environments and business practices based on sound economics, environmental protection, social responsibility and incorporating the BIFMA Sustainability Guidelines into our practices. We will routinely update our practices, and we intend to make consistent, measurable progress toward these goals and will pursue them in all facets of our operations.

Currently, Chromcraft is pursuing GREENGUARD Certification with an expected certification in January 2009.

Chromcraft makes every effort to reclaim and recycle all metal, aluminum and chrome throughout all of our facilities. We recycle all of our chipboard and use recycled materials in our packaging materials. Chromcraft is committed to our environment. Detailed below are just a few of the many environmental initiatives Chromcraft is currently incorporated into the manufacturing process.

Cradle to Cradle Practices

Our Cradle to Cradle philosophy and practices provide us a tangible means of maintaining and adding products with environmentally-intelligent design and it helps our customers purchase and specify products that are pursuing a broader definition of quality. This equates to our use of environmentally safe, sustainable and healthy materials; design for material re-utilization such as recycling or composting; the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency; efficient use of water, maximum water quality associated with production; and instituting strategies for greater social responsibility.

Recycling and Sustainability Practices

Cardboard cartons are broken down and recycled in two ways. First, cartons that we cannot reuse in house or through Supplier agreements for return and re-use, are broken down and stacked in racks on top of our regular scrap skid locations. A forklift Driver then comes around and collects the scrap cartons and delivers them to our carton compress where the cartons are crushed and banded. The banded cartons are then removed and stored until picked up by the Recycler. Second, cartons are reusable through Supplier agreements. One of our local Suppliers and Chromcraft have a carton re-use agreement whereby Chromcraft breaks down the taped cartons and stores them in racks. Daily these cartons are gathered and stored. When the Supplier delivers raw materials to Chromcraft the reusable cartons are loaded on the delivery truck and returned to the Suppliers facility for reuse. When cartons are considered to be unusable then they are sent to our carton compress and bundled for resale to the recycler.

We also recycle our Plycraft Paper which is a laminated in house paper product. After lamination the panels are marked and band sawed into Plycraft backs, all offal that is unusable for other component parts is thrown into scrap skids. The skids are then delivered to our carton compress where it is press and banded into bundles along with the scrap recyclable carton materials. Office paper, computer paper and other recyclable papers are collected at each office staff's desk in boxes and waste baskets. Daily the paper is collected by the clean-up crew and the office staff and dumped into Bigalow cardboard boxes. The boxes when full are then delivered to our carton recycle compress where it is bundled and stored for our Recycler to pick up. Plastic materials from which we fabricate seat panels, arms and various other parts are also recycled. The offal from the fabricated parts is collected and ground into small pieces and stored in Bigalow boxes for recycling with our plastics Supplier.

In-Factory Recyclables

Acetone from wood part stripping and cleaning operations: 2,054 lbs.

Outside Recyclables

Scrap paper 16,840 lbs
Scrap cardboard 502,350 lbs
Scrap ABS plastic 21,804 lbs
Scrap steel 389,920 lbs
Scrap aluminum 1,060 lbs
Scrap upholstery leather 1,750 lbs
Scrap foam 31,380 lbs

Chromcraft has a state of the art water treatment facility for plating. All metal plating tanks in the plater have reverse counter flow rinses that are used for makeup water for their plating solution tanks, thus recycling the metal drag out.

All wastewater from the plater is treated onsite. Some of the treated water is reused on the plater as non-critical rinses. Some is discharged to the local POTW (Public Owned Treatment Works). The precipitated sludge is bagged and sent to metals recycling facilities for metals reclaim and disposal. Total last year: 24,360 lbs. For wood coatings, Chromcraft is in possession of and complies with a Federal EPA Title V Air Permit. HAP's and VOC's have been reduced by using compliant VOC and HAP coatings and water-base coatings as required. Waste liquid paint is recycled by being fuel blended at a recycler. For metal coatings Chromcraft uses non-hazardous powder paint. The powder that is not deposited on the parts is reclaimed and reused over again by the spray booths.

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Steel Recycling

The proven material, steel, is 100% recyclable. C+P steel furniture therefore provides an ecologically viable working environment. Not to mention the cost savings for waste disposal. The advantages of this incomparable material are also scientifically proven.

E-Module

The “elasticity module” defines the ratio of the force required to cause a distortion and the distortion it causes. In other words: how much force must I apply to stretch a material? The diagram shows that steel is unbeatable as a material in terms of stability and elasticity.

Strain- Distension Graph

The stress strain graph illustrates how easily a material can be distorted and when the material will fail, i.e. break. You can see that, in comparison to wood, steel is very difficult to distort. It can withst and extremely strong forces and also offers a wider safety margin in the critical range, thanks to its plastic properties.

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Green Statement

HighMark … and the environment.

As responsible members of the business community, it is our desire and pledge to leave the environment better than we found it. As consumers of the earth's resources we consider it our responsibility to reduce and eventually eliminate the environmental impact of our manufacturing processes. The transition to environmentally conscious company is a management fostered life long philosophy that drives our commitment to sustainability.

Charles S. Loeb, CEO

Striving for Sustainability…

…in Product Development

The bulk of the components in our products, mainly nylon, steel, aluminum, and polypropylene, are 100% recyclable. Seeking alliances with earth-friendly vendors and suppliers is a prime directive for our supply chain and manufacturing team. Several 100% recycled and 100% recyclable Interface Fabric Group patterns have been added to our fabric offering.

…in Manufacturing

We have eliminated all use of Methylene Chloride, a possible human carcinogen, based adhesives and replaced them with water-based, environment-friendly, adhesives throughout our operations. A revision of all cutting patterns has reduced foam and fabric waste. All fabric trimmings from the manufacturing are sent to a fabric recycler. Per piece Job travelers, purchase order and receiving file copies have been replaced by paperless systems.

…in Packaging

All Highmark’s corrugated cartons are made of 65% recycled material. We also encourage orders for blanket wrap products by offering will call discounts as an incentive to accept orders blanket wrapped, instead of cartoned. Bulk packaging that significantly reduces the amount of cardboard packaging is encouraged to all stackable chair products. Packaging practices are modified to minimize waste and save valuable resources. Local JIT suppliers are delivering components stretch wrapped instead of boxed.

…in Energy Consumption

Our progress towards lean manufacturing has thus far reduced our finished goods inventory by 90% and Raw Materials by 50%. Reduced lead times along with flexible work schedules have resulted in reductions of energy consumption.

…in Waste Management

100% of all inbound carton packaging material, and scrap leather is removed by local recyclers. All spent oil is sent to a recycler. Likewise, all aerosols and lead batteries are sent to the appropriate places for recycling or disposal. HighMark is a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's WasteWise Program. A program designed for companies committed to reduce the amount and/or toxicity of waste requiring disposal. It includes waste prevention, recycling, composting, and the purchase and manufacture of goods that have recycled content or produce less waste.

…in Office Waste Management

Paper is recycled.

Cans and bottles discarded in our lunch room are collected and recycled. All used computer equipment is disposed of accordingly for metals and plastic (ABS) recycling. All empty photocopier and printer cartridges are returned to our suppliers for refilling.

We invite all our business partners to share with us, their progress towards sustainability for the mutual benefit of us becoming sustainable businesses.

Click here to download a copy of Highmark's Leed Statement

Everlast Flooring leed

Click here to download Everlast Flooring Leed Statement

FSC Certificate

FSC Cerificate

Click here to download a copy of the FSC Certificate