Nevers Environmental Statement

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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 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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We offer numerous FSC Certified veneer options. These veneers are 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.
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 pursues a continuous improvement process, searching for an applying new methods and
products to protect and enrich our environment.
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