Substrates developer Cooley Group has become ISO 14001:2004 certified. The company now holds both this and ISO 9001:2008 certification which CEO David Pettey said “ensures the company conducts business as a global, corporate environmental citizen by complying with internationally recognised and accepted recyclability practices.”
Cooley also has implemented various sustainability initiatives, among them its G.R.E.E.N. programme, developed to help the its employees meaningfully engage with and positively influence its environmental and recyclability goals and objectives. The acronym represents the program’s key tenets: Global stewardship, Reduce and Reuse resources, Environmental compliance, Eliminate waste, and No pollution. Its key objectives are to develop sustainable products; create zero landfill waste by recycling internal and external waste streams; and reduce water, gas, and electricity consumption rates.
The ISO certification comes as a result of the Cooley’s history of applying sustainability principles in its manufacturing processes. At the end of last year, for example, Cooley had used almost 25 million pounds of recycled material (that would have otherwise ended up in landfills) to manufacture new products. It also reduced its gas energy consumption by 75% and its material waste generation during production by more than 70%.