Over your head.Armstrong World Industries Armstrong World Industries, Inc. is an international designer and manufacturer of floors, ceilings and cabinets. Based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Armstrong operates 39 plants in 10 countries and has approximately 13,000 employees worldwide. , headquartered in Lancaster, Pa., reports that it has diverted more than 20 million square feet of acoustical ceiling tiles from landfills through its recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. program. Since Armstrong, the country's largest producer of ceiling tiles, introduced the recycling program in 1999, it has reclaimed enough tiles to cover 349 football fields. This total also represents nearly 7,100 tons of construction waste that normally would have been dumped in landfills. The program enables building owners to ship old ceilings--even if they were not manufactured by Armstrong--from renovation projects to an Armstrong ceiling plant for recycling. Armstrong pays the freight costs for the tiles, which it uses to manufacture new ceilings Armstrong also presented a special environmental award to Nike Inc. and the architectural firm An architectural firm is a company which employs one or more licensed architects and practices the profession of architecture. History Architects (master builders) have existed since early in recorded history. The earliest recorded architects include Imhotep (c. of Thompson Vaivoda & Associates of Portland, Ore., in recognition of Nike's ceiling tile recycling efforts. The company recently recycled more than 100,000-square-feet of old ceiling tiles at its Beaverton, Ore., headquarters. The discarded dis·card v. dis·card·ed, dis·card·ing, dis·cards v.tr. 1. To throw away; reject. 2. a. To throw out (a playing card) from one's hand. b. tiles were shipped to the Armstrong ceiling plant in nearby St. Helens St.Helen may refer to:
"Environmental consciousness guides all aspects of our business, including facilities," Jim Petsche, director of corporate facilities at Nike, says. |
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