The HON Company Revitalizes New York Showroom
Refreshed Space Showcases Company’s Environmentally Preferential Products
Muscatine, IA – January, 2007 – Sixty years ago, The HON Company embarked on an environmental journey. Today, HON keeps striving for improvement anywhere and everywhere – whether at its Iowa headquarters or in its newly-renovated New York City showroom.
Placed in the heart of the city, its Fifth Avenue location provided SmithGroup, a Chicago-based design group, with the ideal room to reflect the company’s core values: beautifully designed office furniture that’s flexible, durable, and of course, environmentally preferential.
HON’s most notable initiative, Nature Core™, takes center stage in the New York space. Designed for use inside the company’s versatile Initiate® panel systems, Nature Core is the first of its kind for the office furniture industry. Made from an annually renewable crop, kenaf, this panel “filler” provides sustainable benefits and can improve indoor air quality when used in Initiate panel systems.
The showroom houses other products that fulfill stringent indoor air quality requirements. In addition to Initiate, more than 90 percent of HON’s seating line, laminate desking, and its Accomplish™ line of classroom furniture have received various levels of Indoor Advantage certification from Scientific Certification Systems (SCS). As a third-party auditor, SCS helps manufacturers, like HON, meet the highest certification of environmental and quality performance.
Other products that have a notable presence include HON’s Park Avenue Veneer line, Accomplish classroom furniture, F3TM seating with ilira® - stretch, 10500 desking series, Perpetual® Nesting tables and TerceroTM conference tables.
For more information about the newly redesigned New York showroom, visit www.HON.com or www.HONthinksgreen.com.
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About The HON Company
The HON Company is a leader in the design and manufacturing of workplace furniture including chairs, files, panel systems, and desks. Headquartered in Muscatine, Iowa, The HON Company has numerous manufacturing facilities strategically located throughout the United States, and markets its products through a nationwide network of dealers and retailers. For more information please visit www.HON.com.
About SmithGroup
SmithGroup (www.smithgroup.com) ranks as the 6th largest architecture and engineering firm in the U.S. (Building Design & Construction, July 2007) and employs 800. The firm is composed of client industry-focused practices serving the learning, healthcare, workplace and science & technology markets. SmithGroup has offices in Ann Arbor, MI, Chicago, IL, Detroit, MI; Los Angeles, CA; Madison, WI; Minneapolis, MN; Phoenix, AZ; Raleigh-Durham, NC; San Francisco, CA; and Washington, D.C. Established in 1853, SmithGroup is the longest continually operating architecture and engineering firm in the U.S.