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Sustainable

At Milliken, sustainability is core to our culture. We believe a healthy enterprise and healthy earth are vitally linked. We care
about and respect each other, our customers, and the world we share. While we hold ourselves accountable to the highest
ethical standards, we derive our greatest satisfaction from creating innovations that help solve the worlds’ problems at a
human level—adding value to people’s lives, improving health and safety, and making this world sustainable.
Milliken has also demonstrated a commitment to transparency by disclosing the components of our commercial carpet
tile products through Declare®, a voluntary labeling program and database operated by the International Living Future
Institute™, and complies with the Red List Imperative of the Living Building Challenge™.

Examples of Our Commitment
• Zero waste to the landfill from our Milliken US carpet the Design for Environment (DfE) process for our
manufacturing facilities since 1992. commercial carpet products since 2002.

• 52% of the energy used in the manufacture of • Our Comfort Plus® polyurethane backed cushion
our carpet is renewable through company owned increases the life of carpet more than 40%.
hydroelectric facilities and local landfill methane gas • All Milliken Carpet products are 3rd party certified
harvesting.
NSF-140 Gold or Platinum.
• All Milliken products have Environmental Product
Declarations (EPD’s) that are third party certified by • All U.S. plants are certified as OSHA VPP STAR Sites.
Underwriters Laboratory (UL). • All carpet manufacturing sites are ISO-14001
Certified—the highest global standard for
• All Milliken Carpet products are free of the 15 Red List environmental responsibility.
chemicals defined in the Living Building Challenge.
• First US carpet manufacturer to obtain carpet
• Product Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) are used manufacturing certification for the ISO 9000 Series
for New Product Development. Milliken has used
Standard for quality.

StainSmart®

StainSmart® is a proprietary treatment applied to Milliken Stain Repel: StainSmart allows many liquid spills to be
modular carpets to provide Stain Repel, Stain Resist and blotted and removed easily before they can penetrate
Soil Release characteristics. This treatment provides state- beyond the carpet surface.
of-the-art protection against penetrating stains and soil. It’s
a dual action technology that enables liquid and oil-based Stain Resist: This chemistry blocks the dye sites of the nylon
spills to bead up and be easily removed from the carpet. fiber, lessening the ability of a stain to bond with the fiber.
Soil Release: Prevents soil from adhering to or embedding
The treatment becomes an inherent part of the carpet so in the fiber surface and enhances the efficiency of soil
it’s durable over years of use, even in high traffic.
removal when proper cleaning techniques are followed.

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