Shaw Industries Group, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway company, has released its 2012 corporate sustainability report. Key highlights from the report – titled Looking Ahead – include:
• Reclaiming and recycling more than 600 million pounds of post-consumer carpet since 2006
• Surpassing 60 percent of Shaw products being Cradle to Cradle Certified
• Achieving LEED certification for three additional facilities
• Reducing water intensity by 33.7 percent since 2006
• Providing 56,196 associate volunteer hours and more than $2 million in contributions to community causes
• Breaking ground on a manufacturing facility in Nantong, China to serve the thriving Asia market – representative of the company’s efforts to produce products locally