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In celebration of Earth Day, Mohawk Group hosted a variety of activities and events to bring attention to sustainability year-round. These employee engagement events took place at the commercial flooring manufacturer’s “Living Site” carpet tile plant in Glasgow, and at its product design hub and other commercial plants in Georgia.
“Here at Mohawk, we want to be able to take the excitement and energy of Earth Day and spread it year-round, so that sustainability and corporate social responsibility are top-of-mind each and every day,” said Malisa Maynard, vice president of sustainability at Mohawk Industries. “The week of Earth Day was the perfect opportunity to highlight what we have been up to during the last 12 months, while also celebrating the culmination of many years of hard work.”
At Mohawk Group’s carpet tile manufacturing plant, the on-site sustainability team commemorated the company’s third Living Product Challenge (LPC) recertification. As part of this recent recertification, the entirety of Mohawk Group’s nylon carpet tile styles on EcoFlex ONE backing are now officially petal-certified. The manufacturer’s “Living Site,” said a Mohawk spokesman, has long been celebrated as a model of innovation and energy efficiency as the genesis of the world’s first Living Product Challenge petal certified floorcovering, Lichen, as well as its other carbon neutral carpet tile products.
Events at the facility included plant tours for employees and their families. The tours also featured the unveiling of the Living Site’s redesigned LEED-Gold certified showroom, which now integrates the story behind how the manufacturer achieved different LPC petals through various initiatives that included creating products that regenerate the global ecosystem through beyond carbon neutral manufacturing processes; manufacturing the least water-intensive carpet tile on the market; maintaining two certified on-site wildlife habitats; and partnering with Susan G. Komen in the fight against breast cancer through the Specify for a Cure program.
The tours also specifically highlighted the manufacturer’s expanded Mo-Honey program, which now includes seven new on-site beehives, as well as a beehive that has been donated to the local 4-H program and placed at Natural Bridge State Park.
