ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT
NEVERS INDUSTRIES Inc. is committed to our employees and community to be an environmentally
conscious company. We are dedicated to producing the highest quality wood office furniture in a
durable, environmentally responsible and economically viable manner. Nevers’ products use natural
wood, engineered wood, and wood composite products in the construction of meeting and
conferencing furniture. We practice these disciplines daily to ensure that we are a working steward of
the environment:
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Almost all of our American hardwoods are grown within a 250 mile radius of our factory in
Minneapolis, contributing to a naturally green harvest of raw lumber materials. Few other
factories are located within such an enviable setting.
We offer numerous FSC Certified veneers as standard product options. These veneers are then
applied to FSC certified and Formaldehyde free flakeboard or medium density fiberboard.
Our Veneer and Lumber Supplier heats their plant (located in Northern Wisconsin) with waste
wood from the lumber process.
Nevers applies a multi-ply table banding process to our furniture to conserve wood
consumption.
All wood and laminate materials are applied to a Formaldehyde free flakeboard or medium
density fiberboard to satisfy the California Air Resources Board Standards.
The particleboard and medium density products are FLAKEBOARD, which are the raw materials
used as the core of our furniture stability is constructed from materials which do not contain any
added urea-formaldehyde resins in the construction process. These are made from 100%
recycled and recovered fiber.
In fact, Nevers favors construction from environmentally friendly wheatboard. Comparable to
MDF, wheatboard is created by compressing straw and wheat leftover from the Midwest
harvest into a composite board. An estimated 400 million tons of straw and wheat are
considered leftover from the harvest each year. This core material is available upon request.
Nevers utilizes low VOC finishing products that produce low emissions resulting in cleaner air.
Our state of the art spray equipment has a high transfer rate that reduces emissions. And, our
Finishing Department extracts chemicals from rags before disposal.
Scrap wood is separated from trash and recycled wood into wood chips for reuse as animal
bedding or landscaping products.
Hazardous chemicals are recycled into other durable products, and company wide, Nevers’
employees recycle paper, aluminum cans and cardboard daily.
Nevers has invested more than $30,000 in conversion to new standards in lighting within the
factory. This is reducing our energy draw for lighting by 20%.
Nevers leases an 80,000 square foot of manufacturing and office space in a building zoned for
manufacturing. Internally, we installed a sophisticated air make up system to filter all solids
eliminated from our wood finishing department in compliance with all local, state and federal
guidelines.
Nevers pursues a continuous improvement process, searching for an applying new methods and
products to protect and enrich our environment.