HALLANDALE, FLA.—In support of its Care About Earth program, Groupe GM, a leading player in the hotel amenity industry, is relaunching its DAMANA hotel lines, with an emphasis on sustainability. DAMANA Earth and Sun The Mediterranean harbors the essence of the DAMANA Earth and Sun line. Inspired by traditional methods, DAMANA Earth and Sun is a range of products enriched with different herbal extracts and a subtle perfume with natural aromatic sunny floral heart and a woody base scent. DAMANA Earth and Sun formulas are vegan-certified, GMO-free, gluten-free, and contain up to 98 percent natural origin ingredients. The DAMANA Earth and Sun line features a...

VIENNA, VA.—Attune, an industry leader with the most comprehensive and flexible sensor platform delivering needed real-time data for digital transformation, announced that it has received the SOC 2 Type 1 compliance standard certification. The SOC 2 compliance certification distinguishes organizations as leaders in cybersecurity industry standards and data protection. Developed by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), the SOC 2 compliance report is a voluntary compliance for companies that adhere to the highest standard of security confidentiality. Through extensive auditing procedures, SOC 2 aims to monitor companies’ internal security controls and data privacy continuously. Additionally, SOC 2 provides assurance of...

CROSSVILLE, TENN.—Crossville Inc. announced aggressive carbon reduction goals affecting its tiles’ global warming potential with a goal of achieving a 30 percent reduction in manufacturing embodied carbon by 2030. The company’s short-term goal is equally aggressive as it seeks to achieve an additional 10 percent reduction by 2024 as compared to its 2019 measurements. From its founding, Crossville has recognized that a product that comes from the earth should have minimal impact on the earth. In 2014, Crossville completed its first energy usage assessment, which led the company to develop its Environmental Product Declarations. Five years later, Crossville achieved a...

THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS—Encina Development Group, a producer of ISCC+ circular chemicals from end-of-life plastics, announced a new recycling partnership with Shaw Industries Group, Inc., a global flooring manufacturer. Under the agreement, Shaw will provide Encina with more than 2 million pounds of waste materials from its carpet manufacturing processes annually. This effort will reduce Shaw’s greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprint while contributing to its long-standing sustainability commitment, which encompasses its Cradle-to-Cradle design programs that have been in place for more than 20 years. Nearly 90 percent of the products Shaw produces are Cradle to Cradle Certified, meaning they have been...

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.—Room & Board and Room & Board Business Interiors, the home furnishing brand’s commercial arm, announce the expansion of the Urban Wood Project—their groundbreaking national initiative that sources wood otherwise destined for landfills and reclaims it into unique furnishings. The brand is now partnering with Brooklyn-based millwork and design operation, Tri-Lox, to upcycle wood culled from decommissioned New York City water towers and salvaged local trees for an exclusive line of sustainable offerings suitable for hospitality and office spaces. This collaboration, their sixth in the country, builds on Room & Board’s diversion of 200 trees annually from the waste stream, delivering on...

LIBERTYVILLE, CHICAGO—EVBox, a manufacturer of innovative EV charging solutions, announces the continued growth of its U.S. production footprint with an updated state-of-the-art production facility at its North American headquarters. EVBox’s investment in the 60,000-square-foot facility and its associated U.S. operations have already resulted in the creation of 45 jobs with the employee count expected to double before year’s end. As electric cars increase in popularity, charging at fuel-retail destinations will be naturally needed but destination charging—public and semi-public charging at destinations including the office, supermarkets, and hotels—is also becoming an essential part of tomorrow’s electric mobility infrastructure. According to EVBox’s...

PALO ALTO, CALIF.—EverCharge, a leading provider of large-scale electric vehicle (EV) charging devices and management systems, formally announced its ten-year Endurance Program. As part of EverCharge’s commitment to sustainability, the program guarantees access to the necessary components to maintain EverCharge’s commercial Level 2 (L2) charging stations for 10 years. EverCharge designs and manufactures its own hardware to provide a high level of quality and supply chain control, and is proud to be one of the few companies to manufacture its charging products in North America at its factory in Hayward, Calif. The vertical integration is the basis of the Endurance Program,...

OTTAWA, ONT.—FigBytes, creators of the leading Sustainability Platform for impact-focused organizations, announced its partnership with Patch. The partnership simplifies climate accounting and action programs, ensuring that organizations can easily manage their carbon credit transactions as part of their comprehensive carbon emissions reduction strategy. Sustainability leaders and those tasked with meeting emissions reduction goals need better information to make decisions on how to shape their sustainability programs. FigBytes helps make an organization’s emissions reduction strategy actionable with data, ensures reporting is an ongoing but effortless process, and makes it easy to show progress to a growing pool of stakeholders. FigBytes also supports...

DAWSON, TEXAS—While commercial operations began in late December, Whirlpool Corp. just announced a formal ribbon cutting at the Limestone Wind wind farm in Dawson Texas, where 53MW of clean energy from the 88 turbines on site will be supporting the company’s journey towards achieving net-zero targets that the company first announced in 2021. The ribbon cutting for Limestone Wind is the culmination of a Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (VPPA) with expected production of approximately 200,000 MWh/year, the second VPPA for Whirlpool Corp. With the addition of this project, Whirlpool Corp. can now match 100 percent of its nine U.S. plant’s...

VIENNA, VA.—Attune, an industry leader with the most comprehensive and flexible sensor platform delivering needed real-time data for digital transformation, has launched its new product for outdoor air quality monitoring. The Outdoor Air Quality Monitoring (OAQ) Kit repackages Attune’s UL-2905 Certified indoor air quality monitoring sensors for outdoor use, providing data on air quality around any given site. Attune’s flexible sensor platform is built from the ground up on solid modular design principles; its many Internet of Things (IoT) innovations have been recognized with the granting of 50 patents. Attune’s modular architecture enables the rapid integration of next-generation sensors, which...