Healthy Products

Healthier spaces for healthier people

Armstrong recognizes we have a responsibility to limit the environmental impact of our products and make positive contributions to the future of healthy, sustainable spaces. Through our SUSTAIN® portfolio, we offer ceiling and wall solutions that meet the highest environmental and health standards. We also continue to push toward greater ingredient and embodied carbon transparency for all our products, and to reduce our carbon and water footprints while contributing to circular economy models that minimize waste.

Sustainably Sourced Products

We aim to create products and solutions from healthy, sustainably sourced materials by eliminating chemicals of concern through sustainable supply chains.

Targets
100% of our products are free from chemicals of concern.

100% of our products have verified transparency.

100% of our material sourcing activities are evaluated for social, ethical and environmental performance.

Sustainably Sourced Products

We aim to create products and solutions from healthy, sustainably sourced materials by eliminating chemicals of concern through sustainable supply chains.

Targets
100% of our products are free from chemicals of concern.

100% of our products have verified transparency.

100% of our material sourcing activities are evaluated for social, ethical and environmental performance.

 

Reduced Carbon and Water Footprints

We aim to make a positive contribution to spaces and the environment by decreasing our products’ carbon and water footprint and by creating solutions that actively contribute to health and wellness..

Targets
50%  reduction in the carbon footprint of our products, compared with a 2019 baseline.

50%  reduction in the water intensity of our products, compared with a 2019 baseline.

 

Reduced Carbon and Water Footprints

We aim to make a positive contribution to spaces and the environment by decreasing our products’ carbon and water footprint and by creating solutions that actively contribute to health and wellness..

Targets
50%  reduction in the carbon footprint of our products, compared with a 2019 baseline.

50%  reduction in the water intensity of our products, compared with a 2019 baseline.


Designing and Testing

Our design and testing processes are focused on the health and safety aspects of our products, as well as optimizing sustainability starting with the design phase and carried through end-of-life. All our new products, including those manufactured by authorized third-party vendors, undergo a comprehensive Product Safety Design Review Process that covers a multiphase screening for safety attributes, including chemical content, seismic and fire performance and compliance with indoor air quality standards. We regularly review the latest regulatory guidance to monitor ongoing compliance with local and global regulations regarding safety and chemicals of concern.

We work to ensure safe use of our products across the value chain. Builders and contractors using our products must follow mandatory guidance on safe and effective installation in order to maintain our warranties, and we actively solicit feedback on our products through mock-ups and test installations from our customers, including annual audits with contractors.


How We Govern Product Stewardship at Armstrong

We govern product stewardship through a number of councils, committees and departments, explained in the diagram below.

 


Eliminating Chemicals of Concern

We continue to work to eliminate chemicals of concern from our products. We internally screen our products against a variety of sources to define our list of chemicals of concern, including state-level databases in the United States, the European Chemicals Agency’s current REACH list of restricted substance and International Living Future Institute’s Living Building Challenge® (LBC) Red List, among others. As research into common manufacturing chemicals continues to evolve and expand, so do these lists. Armstrong is committed to tracking and monitoring new potential chemi­cals of concern that emerge from ongoing research, and we continue to work with our suppliers to optimize our products.


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