People. Place. Planet. Product.
Our Impact
As a privately held, family-run company, we can look beyond quarterly results to take a more holistic, long-term approach to our corporate responsibility that encompasses not only the environment around us, but the people within it.
Sustainability is embedded in Teknion’s culture, empowering everyone from our manufacturing employees to our executive leadership. Even in challenging times, we choose to invest in programs and processes that raise the bar and further a holistic approach to sustainability, focusing on people, place, planet and product.
Science Based Certification
SBTi
Teknion is one of 5000+ companies and financial institutions setting Science-based Targets. The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is a corporate climate action organization that enables companies and financial institutions worldwide to play their part in combating the climate crisis.
Over the years, Teknion has diligently strived to minimize our environmental footprint. In partnering with SBTi, we are making sure that we are meeting or exceeding our goals. We are excited to share that we have received approval for our “Near-Term Science Based Targets” from SBTi. Sustainability is embedded in Teknion’s culture, empowering everyone from our manufacturing employees to our executive leadership. Even in challenging times, we choose to invest in programs and processes that raise the bar and further a holistic approach to sustainability, focusing on people, place, planet and product.
Transparency
Declare
Teknion uses Declare as a platform to transparently disclose our products’ composition including potential harmful materials as noted on the LBC Red List.
We currently have…
70+ products that are Red List Free
10 Declare labels with 100% ingredient transparency and
100% of all standard powder coat paints that meet the Red List Free Criteria
JUST. Label
Just is a program administered by the International Living Future Institute (ILFI). Like ILFI’s Declare ingredient label, it provides a transparent, publishable scorecard of our efforts across six key categories. Measuring how we are doing and where we need to improve, Just provides an additional layer of learning through ILFI, with whom we have a ten-year plus relationship. Just is supported and recognized throughout well-established building standards like LEED and WELL.
Divert
The Teknion Divert program is a turnkey service that provides the people and expertise to help our customers divert furniture and other assets they no longer need from landfill by providing them with the opportunity to sell, donate, and/or recycle them.
Divert was established to help achieve Teknion’s and our clients’ goal of zero waste. Transparent and traceable, this program ensures our clients garner maximum financial and social benefit with minimum environmental impact to themselves and the communities in which they operate.
We accept a wide range of projects and will take furniture and other assets from any manufacturer, even if you are not buying Teknion moving forward.
Better Today than Yesterday
Continuous
Improvement
Just is a program administered by the International Living Future Institute (ILFI). Like ILFI’s Declare ingredient label, it provides a transparent, publishable scorecard of our efforts across six key categories. Measuring how we are doing and where we need to improve, Just provides an additional layer of learning through ILFI, with whom we have a ten-year plus relationship. Just is supported and recognized throughout well-established building standards like LEED and WELL.
