Mohawk releases 2015 Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Report

[Dalton] Mohawk Industries has released its seventh-annual Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Report. 

Some of the highlights include:

-Exceeded the 2020 reduction goal for waste to landfill intensity
-Reached 95 percent of its 2020 water intensity reduction goal  
-Recycled operational waste and purchased recycled material resulted in diversion of more than 7.4 billion pounds of material from landfills
-Expanded “Zero Manufacturing Waste to Landfill” program to a total of 44 sites
-Introduced Impressions utility floor-mat collection utilizing molded crumb rubber from recycled tires and a 100 percent recycled PET fabric top; the product category can use up to ten million pounds of recycled tires each year
-Incorporated more than 44 million pounds of recycled PVC material into Moduleo    Design Floors luxury vinyl tile (LVT) collections
-Awarded the Manufacturing Visionary Award from the International Living Future -Institute for the company’s work with Declare and elimination of Red List chemicals 
-Employed 16 percent more individuals than in 2014  
-Delivered an historically low global safety recordable incident rate of 1.75
-Achieved highest placement by a manufacturing company in the annual Training Top 125 ranking of top training and development companies

The full report can be accessed here: http://mohawkind.com/MohawkSustainabilityReport.aspx.