Less is More White Paper

8/3/2019 Less is More White Paper

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Less is

More

Did you know that the

manufacture of some

products (like curved

work surfaces) can pro-

duce up to 48% waste

material? Thats whywe introduced our Less

is More program.

Less material

Less embodied energy

More sustainable process

You may already know about how to select

environmentally-friendly materials; heres a

great opportunity to easily select and specify

products that produce less waste in the manu-

facturing process. Specifying rectilinear work

surfaces and higher-yield, non-directional

fabric helps do just that.

The Less is More program offers four fabric

patterns: Anchorage, Framework , Belgrade

and Tabby Weave, all from Guilford of Maine.

Tabby Weave (100% Post-Consumer Recycled

Polyester) Anchorage (35% Post-Consumer/

65% Pre-Consumer Recycled Polyester) andBelgrade (95% Post-Consumer/5% Pre-

Consumer Recycled Polyester) are Terratex

fabrics.


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Yields anaverage of25% LESSWASTE onour top 7panel sizes

Yields anaverage of25% LESSWASTE onour top 7panel sizes

Fabric OptimizationDown-roll

Down-roll means the height dimension o thetile or component is parallel to the warp othe abric (Fig. A).

Directional panel abrics are usually appliedDown-roll on panels, tiles, tack boards,fipper doors and other Systems/Freestandingcomponents.

Railroad

Railroad means the height dimension o thetile or component is perpendicular to thewarp o the abric (Fig. B).

Best YieldNon Directional Pattern can be applied in bothdirections without compromising aesthetics.This permits the best possible yield.

DIRECTIONAL means a material looks

different when rotated 90

Non-Directional Fabric

LessWaste

Rectangular Work Tops

LessWaste Yields up

to 48%LESS WASTEthan non-rectangular

Fig. B

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Width

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Laminate Optimization

Non-rectangular work suraces produceexcessive waste.

Choosing non-directional laminatepatterns can improve yield even more, inmany applications.

5

8

94% Yield

4

8

89% Yield

4

8

63% YieldYields upto 48%LESS WASTEthan non-rectangular


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Use o higher-yield approaches to

specication need not limit the

designers ability to create beauti-

ul, unctional work environments.

Trendways Less is More program

provides a ull, pre-selected menu

o product and nish options

ocused on lower-waste manuac-

turing.

We developed typical templates or

many common conditions and con-

gurations. Trendways electronic

specication sotware catalog also

includes a Less Is More category,

so designing and speciying or less

waste is easy.

Above, see several typicals show-

ing some o whats possible within

a lower-waste design strategy.

Its simple!

Less is More Typicals

Beautiful, functional,less wasteful.


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At Trendway, were passionate about

removing waste rom our process. We

re-use every scrap we can, rom using

oal material to make pallets to creat-

ing abric samples rom excess material.

Beside Trendways waste reduction

ocus, our resource recovery eorts

have conserved more than 1,220 tons

o materials directed to recycling or en-

ergy generation over the past ve years.

Over 8.6 million gallons o water were

conserved during the same time.

We recently invested in new, efcient,

state-o-the-art acility lighting that

allows us to take ull advantage o

abundant daylight in our manuacturing

acilities.

This will yield a 53% energy reduction.

And improvements in our powdercoat

paint acility allowed us to slash the

energy usage or that process.

All Trendway products have achieved the

SCS (Scientic Certication Systems)

Indoor Advantage or Indoor Advan-

tage Gold certication o indoor air

quality. Trendway products can also

contribute to LEED credit points in

several categories. Visit our website atwww.trendway.com or ull details.

In June, 2011 Trendway earned certication

as a CarbonNeutral company rom The

CarbonNeutral Company, a world-leading

provider o carbon reduction solutions.

Trendway is certied in accordance with The

CarbonNeutral Protocol, the global standard

or carbon neutral certication, enabling

a business to measure and reduce carbonemissions to net zero.

At the same time, TrendWall broke new

ground by becoming the industrys rst

product to achieve CarbonNeutral status.

This new certication elevates the impact

that the inherently sustainable moveable

walls can have on green design. In becoming

CarbonNeutral, TrendWall appeals even

more to architects, designers and acility

managers seeking workplace solutions that

support the triple bottom line.

For Trendway,achieving net zero means

investing in high quality, highly transparent

carbon reduction projects across the globe

that ocus on CO2 (and its equivalent

greenhouse gases) capture or reduction.

With these investments, Trendway acilitates

the reduction o global greenhouse gas

emissions. Only with such unding will these

important, innovative technologies be

developed and viable.

Trendway-supported projects include the

McKinney Landfll Gas Project in Dallas,

Texas; Fredericton Landfll Gas Project in New

Brunswick, Canada; and the Tieling Coal Mine

Methane Capture and the Hebei Province 34.5

MW Wind Power Project, both in China.
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