Herman Miller Aeron Stool - Environmental Product Summary - Manual

Our sustainability goals by the year 2020:
• Zero carbon footprint
• Zero landfill
• Zero hazardous waste generation
• Zero air emissions (VOCs)
• Zero process water use
• 100 percent renewable electrical energy use via renewable
energy credits and a power purchase agreement
• Company buildings constructed to a minimum LEED Silver certification
• 100 percent of sales from DfE approved products
Environmental Product Summary
Aeron
®
Chair
Design Story: Shifting Paradigms
Herman Miller’s Aeron chair rewrote the book on office
seating with its distinctive look and high-performance
design. In addition to its well-known ergonomic and
functional qualities, Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick
designed the Aeron chair to be sparing of natural
resources, durable and repairable, and constructed for
ease of disassembly and recycling.
From its earliest developmental stages, the Aeron’s
raw material selection and sourcing process emphasized
environmental friendliness, with a preference for
renewable, sustainable, and recycled source materials.
Herman Miller’s Design Protocol
Our commitment to corporate sustainability naturally
includes minimizing the environmental impact of each
of our products. Our Design for Environment team (DfE)
applies environmentally sensitive design standards to
both new and existing Herman Miller products.
The DfE Design Protocol goes beyond regulatory
compliance to thoroughly evaluate new product
designs in four key areas:
• Material Chemistry and Safety of Inputs—
What chemicals are in the materials we specify, and
are they the safest available?
• Disassembly—Can we take products apart at the
end of their useful life, to recycle their materials?
• Recyclability—Do the materials contain recycled
content, and more importantly, can the materials be
recycled at the end of the product’s useful life?
• LCA—Have we optimized the product based on the
entire life cycle?
level ® Certification
Aeron is level 3 certified. The level conformance mark
ensures a comprehensive, independent, and impartial
assessment of the environmental and social impacts
of a product.
Global GreenTag CertTM GreenRate Certified
Aeron is Global GreenTag CertTM GreenRate Level A
certified. Global GreenTag CertTM is an Australian
Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
approved National Certification Mark, an ISO compliant
ecolabel and Green Building Councils of Australia
and New Zealand recognized third party certifier.
GreenTag GreenRate certification enables products
to be allocated Level A, B or C in the Green Building
Council of Australia (GBCA) and New Zealand GBC’s
Green Star
TM tools and certify both VOC and
formaldehyde (composite wood) credits.
Cradle to Cradle Certified
CM
Aeron is Cradle to Cradle Certified CM Silver. This means
that Aeron has been evaluated for its material health,
and is designed for material reuse in a closed loop
system, such as recycling or composting. It is assembled
using 100% renewable energy.
Material Content
The Aeron chair’s components are constructed from
aluminum, steel, plastic, and foam/textile.
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Y
® Y and Z and Aeron are among the registered trademarks of Herman Miller, Inc.
Cradle to Cradle Certified CM is a certification mark licensed by the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute.
® level is a trademark of BIFMA International.
Global GreenTag CertTM is an Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) approved
National Certification Mark.
® GREENGUARD is a registered trademark of the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute.
© 2012 Herman Miller, Inc., Zeeland, Michigan
ALUMINUM 34%
STEEL 31%
PLASTIC 31%
FOAM/TEXTILE/OTHER 4%