Bentley Prince Street Launches Environmentally-Friendly Packaging and Sampling System

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Bentley Prince Street Launches Environmentally-Friendly Packaging and Sampling System

New 100% recycled sample vehicles are manufactured with wind power,

creating another milestone in Company's commitment to sustainable practices

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, Apr. 18 -/E-Wire/-- Bentley Prince Street, a leading commercial and residential carpet manufacturer, has created and launched a unique new packaging and sampling system designed to significantly reduce its impact on the environment as well as increase functionality.

In developing its new sample vehicles, Bentley Prince Street considered every aspect of environmental impact, including preserving trees, reducing solid and water wastes, lowering air emissions and consuming less energy. The company carefully researched and selected a final design that would best support its commitment to sustainable practices -- from raw materials to manufacturing processes to the type of ink used. The new box design also is a marked departure from the industry's standard architectural folders, introducing a much more user-friendly system for designers, architects and end users.

"At Bentley Prince Street, our continual journey to sustainable commerce means examining and improving every area of our processes and products to minimize our impact on the environment while also making good business sense," said Anthony Minite, president of Bentley Prince Street. "Our new packaging and sampling system illustrates this principle perfectly. This new system will save many thousands of trees, alleviate significant manufacturing waste byproducts, reduce energy use and lower air emissions. At the same time, launching one seamless packaging system in our new design better meets our customers' needs and supports our objective of creating the single strongest designer brand in the commercial carpet industry."

The sample product vehicles use 100% post-consumer recycled fiber instead of virgin fiber. In a production run of 130,000 small vehicles, this choice alone saves 234 trees, nearly 99,500 gallons of water/wastewater flow and over 134.6 million BTUs of energy. It also eliminates the generation of 675 lbs. of waterborne waste, 10,500 lbs. of solid waste and more than 20,600 lbs. of atmospheric emissions.

The new system also uses paper manufactured from wind power. In a production run of 130,000 boxes, using wind power eliminates the generation of nearly 3,000 lbs. of air emissions (CO2, SO2 and NOX). This is the environmental equivalent to planting nearly 200 trees or not traveling 3,250 miles in an average automobile. The interior of the sample vehicle box is made from over 700,000 tons of waste paper in a process saving 25,000 trees a day, and manufactured using cornstarch and water to avoid releasing dangerous dioxins into the atmosphere. In addition, the new product boxes use vegetable oil-based inks, which reduce VOC emissions and are efficiently biodegradable. The boxes are recyclable and, once they reach the end of their life cycle, may be reproduced as tissue paper, paper towels or sheet rock.

"This new sampling system is a perfect showcase for our many environmentally-friendly products. These include the newly-launched Scan and UPC lines manufactured using post-production waste as well as our other lines made in part from post industrial recycled content and our Cool Carpetâ¢ and ReEntryÂ® programs that balance the environmental impact of a product's lifecycle on the environment," Minite commented. All Bentley Prince Street products made with either High Performanceâ¢ backing or LIFESPAN* backing are included in the Environmentally Preferable Product certification by Scientific Certification Systems, an independent, third-party certifier.

The new packaging system, launched this month, replaces existing plastic sample cases that will be re-purposed in the company's Cases For Care campaign, a nationwide outreach program that provides community-based non-profit organizations with needed supplies.

Based in Los Angeles County, California, Bentley Prince Street is a leading manufacturer of commercial carpet for corporate, healthcare, hospitality, institutional, residential and retail interiors. All Bentley Prince Street brands are defined by leadership in product design, style, customer service and sustainable practices. Bentley Prince Street is continually searching for improvements to compete successfully in a more environmentally aware marketplace and to be an industry leader in the movement towards sustainable commerce. Bentley Prince Street is a part of Interface, Inc., a global provider of floorcoverings and textiles for commercial interiors. For more information, please visit www.bentleyprincestreet.com

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