New data connection helps manufacturers manage complex ecoData once and make it available with minimal effort across the two leading building material platforms San Francisco, CA — Ecomedes and Sustainable Minds today announced a partnership to usher in a new era of brand reach and product data and evaluation. The partnership makes it easy for manufacturer brands to reach the largest A&D audience, with much less work. Manufacturers can maintain product data through ecomede

What a Lounge Collection Can Tell You About a Manufacturer's Sustainability Program? Specifying furniture used to mean trusting a spec sheet and a phone call. Today, the data can speak for itself, and Fringe by National, a brand of Kimball International, is a seating and table solution that sets an example of what that looks like in practice. Fringe is a modular lounge collection that supports flexible planning across workplace, education, and healthcare settings. It is desi

Over the past several years, Steelcase has taken meaningful, measurable steps to reduce the environmental impact of its seating portfolio while accelerating its path toward net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Through carbon transparency, recycled material innovation, remanufacturing, and circular design, the company continues to transform what it makes and how it makes it. That commitment is evident at every scale, from broad portfolio initiatives to the redesign of individual