Certifications & Seals
EU Ecolabel
The label is awarded to products and services that have a lower environmental impact than comparable products. The EU Ecolabel is intended to enable consumers to identify more environmentally friendly and healthier products.
Nordic Swan Ecolabel
As one of the world's toughest environmental certifications, the Nordic Swan Ecolabel is only awarded to products and services meeting ambitious environmental requirements. The Nordic Swan Ecolabel is holistic. It promotes resource efficiency, reduced climate impact, a non-toxic circular economy and conservation of biodiversity – always with a strong focus on health.The entire lifecycle is considered, from raw materials, production, and use to recycling and disposal, and to obtain the Nordic Swan Ecolabel you have to meet its requirements that ensure quality and durability.
Cradle to Cradle Certified®
The Cradle to Cradle Certified® Product Standard provides the framework to assess the safety, circularity and responsibility of materials and products across five categories of sustainability performance
Blue Angel
The Blue Angel has been the ecolabel of the German Federal Government for more than 45 years. It is an independent and credible label that sets stringent standards for environmentally friendly products and services. The Blue Angel is the guide for purchasing.
ISO 14001
ISO 14001 is a globally recognized standard for environmental management systems (EMS) that was first published in 1996. The requirements of the standard aim to ensure that companies sustainably promote their operational environmental protection, set their own targets for its implementation and reduce the negative impact of their business operations on the environment - including the life cycle assessment of their products and services.
ISO 9001
The ISO 9001 standard defines the requirements for a quality management system that companies must implement in order to meet the expectations of internal and external stakeholders.
DGNB
Certification consistently considers the entire life cycle of a project and evaluates the overall performance of a project instead of individual measures. The DGNB System is based on the three central sustainability areas of ecology, economy and socio-cultural quality, which are equally weighted in the assessment. In the sense of a holistic approach, the DGNB System also evaluates the location as well as the technical and process- related quality.
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
The LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification process developed by the US Green Building Council (USGBC) is the globally most widely applied process with a high level of acceptance among users and the international real estate markets.
Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification
PEFC International is the only international forest certification scheme that bases its criteria on internationally accepted intergovernmental conventions and guidelines, thereby linking its sustainability benchmark criteria with existing governmental processes.
Forest Stewardship Council
FSC is a global forest certification system established for forests and forest products. FSC International sets the framework for developing and maintaining international, national and sub- national standards. This is intended to ensure that the process for developing FSC policies and standards is transparent, independent and participatory. A number of alternative national and regional forest certification bodies also exist around the globe. From the perspective of the WWF , this voluntary mechanism can be regarded as one of the more interesting initiatives of the last decade to promote better forest management.
UL GREENGUARD Certification
The EPA and the state of Washington initially used UL GREENGUARD Certification emissions limits as purchasing specifications for furniture and commercial building products. UL GREENGUARD Certification criteria have served as the basis for the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) credit for low-emitting furniture since 2002. Office furniture products that are UL GREENGUARD Certified also comply with the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturer’s Association (BIFMA) X7.1 standard.
UL GREENGUARD Gold Certification
The UL GREENGUARD Gold Certification Standard includes health-based criteria for additional chemicals and also requires lower total VOC emissions levels to ensure that products are acceptable for use in environments such as schools and healthcare facilities. In addition to limiting emissions of more than 360 VOCs and total chemical emissions, UL GREENGUARD Gold Certified products must also comply with requirements of the state of California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Standard Method for the Testing and Evaluation of Volatile Organic Chemical Emissions from Indoor Sources Using Environmental Chambers, also known as California Section 01350.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is economically, socially and ecologically responsible corporate management that follows the guiding principle of sustainable development (call up dictionary entry for the term). Companies that are committed to CSR are committed to adhering to ethical, social and environmental principles in their work and their relationships with employees, suppliers and other stakeholders. In this way, CSR can help to improve the production conditions and the living situation of people in developing countries (call up dictionary entry for the term). Important areas include labor and human rights, environmental protection, combating corruption and fair trade.
LEVEL® BY BIFMA
LEVEL® BY BIFMA The trusted furniture sustainability certification program created to provide a comprehensive and transparent means to confidently source responsibly manufactured products. Evaluated by third-party certifiers, products are measured against the multi- attribute criteria defined in the ANSI/ BIFMA e3 Furniture Sustainability Standard and listed in an industry-wide public product registry. The LEVEL mark demonstrates that the product, the manufacturing facility, and the company responsible for the product brand, have achieved the necessary requirements for certification.
B Corporation
B Corporation (also B Corp) is a for-profit corporation certified by B Lab for its social impact. B Corp certification is conferred by B Lab, a global non-profit organization. To be granted and to maintain certification, companies must receive a minimum score of 80 from an assessment of its social and environmental performance, integrate B Corp commitments to stakeholders into company governing documents, and pay an annual fee based on annual sales. Companies must re-certify every three years to retain B Corporation status.
BREEAM
BREEAM supports solutions to reduce carbon emissions to net zero, improve whole life performance, manage health and social impacts, boost circularity, resilience and biodiversity, and support disclosures and reporting.