Environmental Document

Environmental Impact

No Green Bull* | 2015

No Green Bull 2015 | Orangebox Environmental Impact

1. No Green Bull*2. Environmental Facts3. Our Sustainability Journey4. EnvironmentalPartners&Certification5. Shared Responsibility6. Environmental Management System7. Smart Design8. Smart Manufacturing9. Buying Local

Contents

10. CertifiedTimber11. Packaging12. Recycling scheme13. General Waste14. VOC Emissions15. Transport16. Relative Energy Consumption17. Actual Energy Consumption18. Where Next

• 1 tub of PVA• 2 pairs of scissors• 2 Stanley knives• 12 full scale prints• 10 cut up chair boxes• 2 rolls of chicken wire • 150 used newspapers

• 1 bag of flour• 2 large paint brushes• 1 comedy Viking hat• 2 tins of masonry paint• 1 spray gun • 6 happy helpers later…

Sammy the bull was born!

No Green Bull* In 2008, we noticed that everyone seemed to be talking about environmental issues. On the one hand we agreed that this was great- We certainly need to be! On the other hand, this led to a tidal wave of eco-marketing with products of every type from soap powder to SUV’s claiming to help save the planet.

We felt we wanted to talk about this topic without the traps of unfounded claims and visual clichés, so we put a report together to tell our customers what we’re doing and why- No Green Bull!

At the same time as we were developing our report we were asked by our local rugby squad to build them a lifesized version of their mascot to support them at a tournament in West Wales…As a company proud to support our local community we took the bull by the horns (so to speak!)

Since 2008, there has been a fair few editions of our environmental document but our message has remained the same… No Green Bull*

50% 45%

78%improvement in

gas consumption in 5 years

improvement in electricity consumption

in 5 years

of supplier spend is UK

based

More efficientfleet

11mpg of our timber iscertifiedtoFSC or PEFC

100%

Virtually eliminated

VOCs from our processes

reduction in general waste (despite a 60%

increase in sales)

30%

First chair in Europe to

achieve C2C Accreditation

with ARA

Environmental Facts

Our Sustainability Journey

No Green BullProactively addressing environmental issuses

Cradle 2 CradleAra Chair- First chair in Europe to acheive C2C

Accrediation

70% supplier based in the UK

Local supplier network, limited fuel consumption

Footprinting ProductsCarbon footprint analysis

on all products

Closed Loop Systems

Designing for a circular economy

78% suppliers based in the UK

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ISO14001First UK office furniture

manufacturer to be accredited

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Design for Dissassembly

Less material, fewer parts, less fuel miles

Environmental Partners

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - ISO 14001:2004

Certificate of Registration

This is to certify that: Orangebox Limited3 East RoadPenallta Industrial EstateHengoedCF82 7SUUnited Kingdom

Holds Certificate Number: EMS 39046

and operates an Environmental Management System which complies with the requirements of ISO 14001:2004 forthe following scope:

The design and manufacture of office seating.The design and manufacture of office seating.

For and on behalf of BSI:Gary Fenton, Global Assurance Director

Originally registered: 06/03/1998 Latest Issue: 14/12/2012 Expiry Date: 17/12/2015

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This certificate was issued electronically and remains the property of BSI and is bound by the conditions of contract.An electronic certificate can be authenticated online.Printed copies can be validated at www.bsigroup.com/ClientDirectory

Information and Contact: BSI, Kitemark Court, Davy Avenue, Knowlhill, Milton Keynes MK5 8PP. Tel: + 44 845 080 9000BSI Assurance UK Limited, registered in England under number 7805321 at 389 Chiswick High Road, London W4 4AL, UK.A Member of the BSI Group of Companies.

QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - ISO 9001:2008



Holds Certificate Number: FM 20636

and operates a Quality Management System which complies with the requirements of ISO 9001:2008 for thefollowing scope:

The design and manufacture of office seating equipment. Equipment manufactured to in-houseparameters and/or client specifications as appropriate.The design and manufacture of office seating equipment. Equipment manufactured to in-houseparameters and/or client specifications as appropriate.



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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM



Holds Certificate Number: OHS 585702

and operates an Occupational Health and Safety Management System which complies with the requirements of BSOHSAS 18001:2007 for the following scope:

The design and manufacture of office seating.The design and manufacture of office seating.



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BM TRADA Certification Ltd, Chiltern House, Stocking Lane, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP14 4ND, UK

This certificate remains the property of BM TRADA Certification Ltd. This certificate and all copies or reproductions of the certificate shall be returned to BM TRADA Certification Ltd or destroyed if requested. The validity of this certificate and the list of products covered

by this certificate can be verified on www.fsc-info.org Forest Stewardship Council®

This certificate itself does not constitute evidence that a particular product supplied by the certificate holder is FSC certified (or FSC Controlled Wood). Products offered, shipped or sold by the certificate holder can only be considered to be covered by the scope of this

certificate when the required FSC claim is stated on invoices and shipping documents.

Multisite clients – The scope of certification shown above includes the participating sites shown in appendix A

Vic Bowen Chief Operating Officer

Certification UK

Certificate number TT-COC-002510

Issue number: 2014-01

Date of initial certification: 1 May 2008

Certificate start date: 1 May 2013

Certificate expiry date: 30 April 2018

CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION

This is to certify that

Orangebox Penallta Industrial Estate Hengoed

Mid Glamorgan CF82 7SU

has been audited and found to meet the requirements of standard(s) FSC-STD-50-001 (Version 1.2) EN and FSC-STD-40-004 (Version 2.1) EN for FSC® Chain of Custody Certification

Scope of certification The purchase, assembly, sale and distribution of FSC certified timber chair components and office furniture.

Products: Office Furniture

Certification

Design | Gareth BanksTransport | Tony HarriesCompany Car Fleet | Remo VernaschiEnergy | Dennis HartMaintenance | Dennis HartISO14001, Objectives & Planning | Ewan Tozer

Supply Chain | Les RichardsWaste | Dewi Evans & Rod MilesPackaging | Dewi Evans & Barbara EdwardsInduction&Training| Alison LewisMarketing & Communication | Liz WalkerTechnicalInformation | Luke Palmer

Shared responsibilityEveryone in the business has a role to play!

Environmental Management System

ISO 14001 is a key platform to drive our initiatives...the real issue is implementing change to ensure continued

improvement!

Our business culture and business practices ensure we are making a meaningful contribution to the quality of the local and global environment to ensure the following:

• We drive continual improvement and innovation across both existing and new business developments

• We further develop our evaluation systems to ensure clear monitoring of all our environmental aspects and impact

• We continue to challenge our objectives and implement further improvements plans

Orangebox has always been at the forefront of environmental awareness andwastheveryfirstUKofficefurniture manufacturer to achieve ISO 14001.

We are fully committed to continually improving our systems and processes to assureourcustomersthatspecificstandards are achieved in the design, manufacture and supply of our products.

Furthermore, we aim to provide products which are safe, do not harm people or the environment and meet the purpose for which they are supplied.

Thesesystemsandprocessesarecontrolled and measured in accordance to the requirements of BS EN 14001:2007, BSEN9001:2008andFSC-STD-40-004.

Smart Design Orangebox’s in-house design team are committed to ensuring that our future growth comes from products and services that are focused on being as environmentally smart as they are commercially successful. These considerations are embedded throughout each new product development & we employ a variety of eco-design strategies to ensure

we’re not just ticking a box, some examples being…• Designing robust and attractive products that maximise their potential useful lives• Maximising the amount of recycled & recyclable materials wherever possible• Using Finite Element Analysis software to help optimise material usage• Design for disassembly-Products which can be broken down quickly and easily to help ensure recycling of components is economically viable• De-materialisation & light-weighting • Marking all our large parts with material identifiers to aid in their recyclingTo us, good design is a lot like good food; to get great results, just keep things simple and use the very best ingredients possible. So more often than not, we’re aiming to stick to the old adage “less is more” & looking to get the most amount of value from the least amount of material.

Cradle to Cradle also considers how the materials invested in our products can be reused through biological or technical cycles. Our ultimate aim is to eliminate the concept of waste through better consideration of what we use in our products and how they can be most effectively recovered and reused in the future.

We also believe in publishing environmental information to our customers with clarity and honesty so they are better able to make informed decisions, using FIRA’s carbon foot-printing tool across our entire portfolio.And although much of our smart-design methodology is focused upon resource efficiency, we also think some bigger thinking is required. This has led us to start adapting our business toward Circular Economy thinking; striving further to facilitate closed loop cycles of use & adopting a more systems thinking approach.

Our experience with working to the Cradle to Cradle design protocol has taught us a lot about only using ‘safe’ materials, whose chemical ingredients pose no significant harm to users of the product or to our natural ecosystems.

Smart ManufacturingChanging the way we manufacture not only creates opportunities for growth and revitalisation but enables us to respond with greater speed and agility to the customers’ individual requirements!Orangebox continuously develops processes to further minimize negative environmental impacts and conserve energy and natural resources where possible.• Process optimisation is embraced within every

department from production to manufacturing through to point of sale and thereafter.• Orangebox has embraced ‘Just in time’ production methodology to all of its operations where products are made to order ensuring there is no absolute stock.• Quality Assurance developments: Continuous developments with regards to the close monitoring of our Quality Assurance systems to ensure fewer mistakes and full compliance to ISO 9001.• Transportation improvements• Purpose built trailers to minimise transit• damage with minimal packaging• CNC Fabric cutters: to maximise yields• Great housekeeping maintenance has been adopted across all departments.

Our ultimate aim is to eliminate the concept of waste through better consideration of what we use in our products and how they can be most effectively recovered and reused

in the future.

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Most Orangebox employees live within a few miles of our facilities reducing emissions and reinvesting money in our local community

We believe it’s crucial to act together with our suppliers if we’re to reach our aim of truly smart manufacturing.

Buying local

CertifiedTimberTheworld’ssecondlargestsourceofgreenhousegas emissions derives from deforestation....at Orangebox we do all we can to ensure all our timber comes from sustainable sources.

A wide variety of our products involve the use of timber in their construction...table tops, chair frames, seat shells for example. Most of our wood we use is solid beech, birch plywood and MDF (mediumdensityfibreboard).

BeingFSC&PEFCcertifiedmeanswearefullycompliant to the highest social and environmental standards.

From the very start we have always sourced our timber from sustainable European sources, giving our customers added assurance that the timber used comes from the most responsible suppliers.

Currently100%ofourtimberiscertifiedtooneof the schemes noted above.

Toclarifywhatiscertifiedwithinourproductportfolio we have individually labelled each of the productsin our price-list, more information on FSC and PEFC can also be downloaded from our website www.orangebox.com

MaterialsPackagingOrangebox packaging uses approximately 85% recycled stock to manufacture the cardboard boxes we use. These boxes are 100% recyclable.

Where possible we utilise our tailgate delivery service, boxes are then immediately returned to our facility for additional cycles of use. We aim to circulate the boxes through 6 - 8 use phases in order to maximise their usefulness. When the boxes can no longer provide the level of protection required they are bundled onsite and sent for recycling through the appropriate waste stream.

On average we recycle 1.5 tons of cardboard per weekvia this process of re-use and recycle.

Recycling Scheme

Our primary aim here is to provide a simple & cost effective service to our customers that ensures we minimize & ideallyeliminatesanylandfill.

Our latest products comply with the Cradle 2 Cradle concept and aim to reuse the recycled materials in new products in apermanentcycle.Thisisgenuinerecycling where we retain the value of the original materials as opposed to most “downcycling” where a plastic part becomes a bag or someother low value item,whicharesubsequentlylandfilled.

We have a waste carrier’s license and are subject to inspection by the Environment Agency.

At Orangebox we take environmentalissues very seriously, so we can provide a non-profitmakingtakebackservicewhichwe think is a simple, collaborative solution for everyone in support of sustainability.

OrangeboxmanufactureofficechairsinSouth Wales and provide a product take back service for customers who order new products from us.

Once we have delivered the new products we collect the unwanted chairs (not desks or storage) & return them to our factory. We charge £10 per unit for this service.

On returning the products to our factory we segregate them and decide on 3 routes:

1. Donate good products to local charities, if we know of a requirement.

2. Arrange for them to be reused via another recycling company.

3. Disassemble the products, segregate the parts and dispose of them via our local recycling partner.

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We have reduced general waste by 25% in the last 6 years but in this period our turnover has grown by 60% so our relative impact has more than halved.

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• Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are organic chemicals that have a high vapor pressure at ordinary room temperature. They have harmful environmental effects when they chemically interact with oxides of nitrogen and sunlight to form ground-level ozone.

• We have used water based glues since 2001• Our VOC emissions come from di-isocyanate & release agent used in the foam moulding process

and we have virtually eliminated these over the last 5 years.• The legal limit is 100g/cubic metre• In 2013, we introduced new release agent - 18% voc vs 95% & consumption reduced by 50%

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TransportDriver safety and sustainability are a top priority to

Orangebox’s fleet managment team....but what key

decisions have we made to support these priorities??

• Orangebox manages the delivery and installtion

process from start to finish and to support

transportation strategy optimisation have invested in

a new modern fleet of vehicles with hydraulic, double

deck flooring to further maximize load capacity and

utilisation.• Local and export deliveries are managed centrally

resulting in tighter control measures, more efficient

management and a less complex system to monitor

• Aerodynamic bodies on the 8.25t vehicles &

non-standard DAF aerodynamic kits will be fitted on

the tractor units.

• Two new Don-Bur Aerodynamic Teardrop™ trailers

• Double deck trailers

• Stringent training and development programs for all

drivers at regular intervals

• A speed limit of 52 mph and engine idle cut to all

vehicles

Don-Bur Aerodynamic Teardrop™ trailers

• Quarterly reviews of any backhaul’s

• Selective catalytic reduction to maximise

combustion efficiency Euro 5 engines

• Automatic gearboxes

• Engine idle cut

Theefficiencyandinnovation of our new ‘greener’fleetincludes carpeted sides for added product protection, microlise engine telematics to monitor drivers performance, in cab

hands free mobiles and vehicle tracking systems.

Economy improved 11% (from 10.14 mpg to 11.2

5mpg) with much lower

emissions. Freight costs

were 3.38% of turnover in

2014 – a reduction of 9%

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Relative Energy

Consumption

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Whilst our turnover has increased our relative energy consumption has reduced...

• We have seen a 50% improvement in our relative gas consumption• We have seen a 45% improvement in our relative electricity consumption

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*Actual Energy

Consumption

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Kwh

Continue to work towards

our aim of Zero landfill

Design for circular economy

project underway

Continue to develop our supply chain

Solar power for our manufacturing

facilities in the pipeline

Voltage optimisation

(reducing supply from 240 to

210V)

Where next?

Here at Orangebox, we’re not interested in making small gestures, only big improvements...No Green Bull

Thecirculareconomy

Thecirculareconomy

We recently started to put the theory into practice, investing in a study looking at working with a third sector organisation to remanufacture our G64 chairs.

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