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Less is
More
Did you know that the
manufacture of some
products (like curved
work surfaces) can pro-
duce up to 48% waste
material? Thats whywe introduced our Less
is More program.
Less material
Less embodied energy
More sustainable process
You may already know about how to select
environmentally-friendly materials; heres a
great opportunity to easily select and specify
products that produce less waste in the manu-
facturing process. Specifying rectilinear work
surfaces and higher-yield, non-directional
fabric helps do just that.
The Less is More program offers four fabric
patterns: Anchorage, Framework , Belgrade
and Tabby Weave, all from Guilford of Maine.
Tabby Weave (100% Post-Consumer Recycled
Polyester) Anchorage (35% Post-Consumer/
65% Pre-Consumer Recycled Polyester) andBelgrade (95% Post-Consumer/5% Pre-
Consumer Recycled Polyester) are Terratex
fabrics.
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Yields anaverage of25% LESSWASTE onour top 7panel sizes
Yields anaverage of25% LESSWASTE onour top 7panel sizes
Fabric OptimizationDown-roll
Down-roll means the height dimension o thetile or component is parallel to the warp othe abric (Fig. A).
Directional panel abrics are usually appliedDown-roll on panels, tiles, tack boards,fipper doors and other Systems/Freestandingcomponents.
Railroad
Railroad means the height dimension o thetile or component is perpendicular to thewarp o the abric (Fig. B).
Best YieldNon Directional Pattern can be applied in bothdirections without compromising aesthetics.This permits the best possible yield.
DIRECTIONAL means a material looks
different when rotated 90
Non-Directional Fabric
LessWaste
Rectangular Work Tops
LessWaste Yields up
to 48%LESS WASTEthan non-rectangular
Fig. B
Warp
Dire
ction
66Fabric
Width
Component
Width
36 66
PanelHe
ight
Fig. A
66Fabric
Width
WarpD
irection
66
36
Pan
elHeigh
t
Compone
nt
Width
Laminate Optimization
Non-rectangular work suraces produceexcessive waste.
Choosing non-directional laminatepatterns can improve yield even more, inmany applications.
5
8
94% Yield
4
8
89% Yield
4
8
63% YieldYields upto 48%LESS WASTEthan non-rectangular
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Use o higher-yield approaches to
specication need not limit the
designers ability to create beauti-
ul, unctional work environments.
Trendways Less is More program
provides a ull, pre-selected menu
o product and nish options
ocused on lower-waste manuac-
turing.
We developed typical templates or
many common conditions and con-
gurations. Trendways electronic
specication sotware catalog also
includes a Less Is More category,
so designing and speciying or less
waste is easy.
Above, see several typicals show-
ing some o whats possible within
a lower-waste design strategy.
Its simple!
Less is More Typicals
Beautiful, functional,less wasteful.
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At Trendway, were passionate about
removing waste rom our process. We
re-use every scrap we can, rom using
oal material to make pallets to creat-
ing abric samples rom excess material.
Beside Trendways waste reduction
ocus, our resource recovery eorts
have conserved more than 1,220 tons
o materials directed to recycling or en-
ergy generation over the past ve years.
Over 8.6 million gallons o water were
conserved during the same time.
We recently invested in new, efcient,
state-o-the-art acility lighting that
allows us to take ull advantage o
abundant daylight in our manuacturing
acilities.
This will yield a 53% energy reduction.
And improvements in our powdercoat
paint acility allowed us to slash the
energy usage or that process.
All Trendway products have achieved the
SCS (Scientic Certication Systems)
Indoor Advantage or Indoor Advan-
tage Gold certication o indoor air
quality. Trendway products can also
contribute to LEED credit points in
several categories. Visit our website atwww.trendway.com or ull details.
In June, 2011 Trendway earned certication
as a CarbonNeutral company rom The
CarbonNeutral Company, a world-leading
provider o carbon reduction solutions.
Trendway is certied in accordance with The
CarbonNeutral Protocol, the global standard
or carbon neutral certication, enabling
a business to measure and reduce carbonemissions to net zero.
At the same time, TrendWall broke new
ground by becoming the industrys rst
product to achieve CarbonNeutral status.
This new certication elevates the impact
that the inherently sustainable moveable
walls can have on green design. In becoming
CarbonNeutral, TrendWall appeals even
more to architects, designers and acility
managers seeking workplace solutions that
support the triple bottom line.
For Trendway,achieving net zero means
investing in high quality, highly transparent
carbon reduction projects across the globe
that ocus on CO2 (and its equivalent
greenhouse gases) capture or reduction.
With these investments, Trendway acilitates
the reduction o global greenhouse gas
emissions. Only with such unding will these
important, innovative technologies be
developed and viable.
Trendway-supported projects include the
McKinney Landfll Gas Project in Dallas,
Texas; Fredericton Landfll Gas Project in New
Brunswick, Canada; and the Tieling Coal Mine
Methane Capture and the Hebei Province 34.5
MW Wind Power Project, both in China.
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Trendway delivers not just furniture but something more:
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and a 99.9% on-time, complete delivery record. We make
furniture that works and makes our customers happy.
Thats our business. Now lets do some together.