SUS­TAIN­ABLE AMBIENCE

Expe­ri­ence sus­tain­abil­i­ty — where every detail has been care­ful­ly selected,
to cre­ate not only a warm and cosy atmosphere
but also to leave a respect­ful foot­print on our environment.

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SUSTAINABILITY

ENJOY
SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABLE AMBIENCE

Expe­ri­ence sus­tain­abil­i­ty — where every detail has been care­ful­ly selected,
to cre­ate not only a warm and cosy atmosphere
but also to leave a respect­ful foot­print on our environment.

WHAT DOES SUSTAINABILITY EVEN MEAN?

Every­one talks about sus­tain­abil­i­ty and how good it is for our world. But what exact­ly it means for us, and our world is not firm­ly defined. We want to go into more detail about what sus­tain­abil­i­ty exact­ly means to us at i‑luminate. Three words are par­tic­u­lar­ly close to our hearts: peo­ple, the envi­ron­ment and nature. Many peo­ple often for­get about peo­ple, but we think that peo­ple are just as much a part of the world, let’s improve the world together.

Let’s cre­ate a bet­ter world together!

WHAT DOES SUSTAINABILITY EVEN MEAN?

Every­one talks about sus­tain­abil­i­ty and how good it is for our world. But what exact­ly it means for us, and our world is not firm­ly defined. We want to go into more detail about what sus­tain­abil­i­ty exact­ly means to us at i‑luminate. Three words are par­tic­u­lar­ly close to our hearts: peo­ple, the envi­ron­ment and nature. Many peo­ple often for­get about peo­ple, but we think that peo­ple are just as much a part of the world, let’s improve the world together.

Let’s cre­ate a bet­ter world together!

ENVI­RON­MEN­TAL­LY FRIEND­LY PRODUCTION

Through envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly pro­duc­tion as part of a con­tin­u­ous improve­ment process, i‑luminate aims to reduce resources and ener­gy con­sump­tion, as well as noise pol­lu­tion and waste gen­er­a­tion. Our sus­tain­abil­i­ty and qual­i­ty are con­firmed by numer­ous seals of approval. The high-qual­i­ty stan­dard of the prod­ucts also includes com­pli­ance with the per­mis­si­ble formalde­hyde lim­its for all mate­ri­als and com­po­nents. Through the appro­pri­ate selec­tion of raw chip­board, the max­i­mum val­ues of emis­sion class E05 are com­plied with or are far below.

SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY

We only use wood from sus­tain­ably man­aged forests in the pro­duc­tion of our kitchens. We guar­an­tee this with the PEFCTM seal of qual­i­ty. PEFC stands for a world­wide for­est cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and is based on the very strict guide­lines for the sus­tain­able man­age­ment of forests. In our opin­ion, this quote from PEFC hits the nail on the head: “Your deci­sion to buy a prod­uct with the PEFC seal is thus a hap­pi­ness for the forest”

VAL­UE MATERIALS

The mate­r­i­al we use should not only be of impec­ca­ble qual­i­ty, but also pro­tect the envi­ron­ment in the long term. For us, it is obvi­ous that mate­r­i­al and envi­ron­ment are in har­mo­ny. That is why we han­dle our resources sus­tain­ably and main­ly use envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly raw materials.

All our front and car­cass parts are PEFC cer­ti­fied, and we also man­u­fac­ture our fronts and car­cass parts exclu­sive­ly with PUR glu­ing. Almost all our work­top decors and approx. 95 % of our front and car­cass parts com­ply with CARB2 spec­i­fi­ca­tions. Our pack­ag­ing mate­r­i­al is free of chlo­rine and also fits pre­cise­ly in order to avoid excess mate­r­i­al. We main­ly use card­board instead of poly­styrene for our pack­ag­ing mate­r­i­al. We also already have a wide range of 100% recy­cled fronts.

WASTE PREVENTION

As a cer­ti­fied EMAS organ­i­sa­tion, we are con­tin­u­ous­ly improv­ing our envi­ron­men­tal per­for­mance. The envi­ron­men­tal man­age­ment sys­tem DIN EN ISO 14001 serves as proof of rel­e­vant reg­u­la­tions and as a bench­mark for envi­ron­men­tal­ly con­scious per­for­mance. Waste is min­imised to a large extent by opti­mis­ing off­cuts. Any resid­ual slabs are reprocessed as heat­ing mate­r­i­al for our own build­ings. It goes with­out say­ing that we sep­a­rate and recy­cle waste across all depart­ments. Our waste dis­pos­al man­age­ment with RKT ensures that we can col­lect and recy­cle our trans­port pack­ag­ing and thus also return it to the mate­r­i­al cycle.

USING ENER­GY EFFICIENTLY

In order to estab­lish a long-term ener­gy man­age­ment sys­tem, we are grad­u­al­ly devel­op­ing a con­cept for elec­tric­i­ty as an ener­gy source. The opti­mi­sa­tion of our oper­a­tional com­pressed air sys­tem, the instal­la­tion of a pho­to­volta­ic sys­tem or the con­ver­sion to elec­tric fork­lifts are just a few examples.

We have been work­ing very active­ly on improv­ing our ener­gy bal­ance for many years. What we have proven so far with the EMAS cer­ti­fi­ca­tion is addi­tion­al­ly com­ple­ment­ed with the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion accord­ing to DIN ISO 50001. Our com­pressed air sup­ply in the com­pa­ny has been com­plete­ly reviewed and, among oth­er things, fun­da­men­tal­ly improved with new com­pres­sor tech­nol­o­gy. Recent­ly, we have start­ed to deal with the issue of effi­cient heat­ing for our pro­duc­tion build­ing. Here, too, ener­gy can be saved and thus pro­tect all our resources.

DURA­BIL­I­TY

Geprüfte Sicher­heit (Test­ed Safe­ty) is a glob­al­ly recog­nised Ger­man qual­i­ty seal for reg­u­lar prod­uct test­ing. This proves the reli­a­bil­i­ty in qual­i­ty and safe­ty of our prod­ucts, which is also a rea­son for the long-stand­ing trust of our cus­tomers. We want to con­tin­ue to build on this and improve con­tin­u­ous­ly. After all, good qual­i­ty and dura­bil­i­ty mean meet­ing the stan­dards and its demands for sus­tain­abil­i­ty at all levels.

DURA­BIL­I­TY

Geprüfte Sicher­heit (Test­ed Safe­ty) is a glob­al­ly recog­nised Ger­man qual­i­ty seal for reg­u­lar prod­uct test­ing. This proves the reli­a­bil­i­ty in qual­i­ty and safe­ty of our prod­ucts, which is also a rea­son for the long-stand­ing trust of our cus­tomers. We want to con­tin­ue to build on this and improve con­tin­u­ous­ly. After all, good qual­i­ty and dura­bil­i­ty mean meet­ing the stan­dards and its demands for sus­tain­abil­i­ty at all levels.

REGION­AL PROCUREMENT

When procur­ing our mate­ri­als, we make sure that they do not have to trav­el long dis­tances to us if pos­si­ble, and we source them from region­al sup­pli­ers. Our sup­pli­ers use reusable pack­ag­ing, which means that they can be used for fur­ther trans­port once they have been returned. In this way, we also sup­port our envi­ron­ment and make it a more attrac­tive location.

FUTURE-ORI­ENT­ED

Peo­ple are also part of sus­tain­abil­i­ty. We offer our own employ­ees job bike leas­ing, so that they can either do with­out a car for their com­mute to work or enjoy nature in their free time. Sus­tain­abil­i­ty also means shap­ing the future of tomor­row. Every year, we take on many appren­tices and offer them a 1‑year employ­ment con­tract after their appren­tice­ship to make it eas­i­er for them to start their careers. We not only think about the young gen­er­a­tion, but also about the future and fur­ther devel­op­ment of all employ­ees and the company.

Sus­tain­abil­i­ty affects us all, in many dif­fer­ent areas, which makes its impor­tance undeniable.