We believe in the power of solving problems with people, not just for them.
Providing an unparalleled array of services to HNI’s largest accounts, HNI Global simplifies your complex workplace needs. We offer you a single point of contact to oversee domestic and international projects, staying with you from kickoff through post-occupancy. Drawing from HNI’s comprehensive furniture portfolio, we design appropriate solutions that address your concerns, scale, and budget. We also manage all cultural, legal, and logistical aspects of the process, from navigating import policies to arranging Day 2 support. With dispersed global manufacturing, an international dealer network, and strong exporting capabilities, HNI Global serves customers in every market, either directly or via our trusted partners.
Our journey begins on day one, and we stay with you throughout the entire project—and beyond.
HNI Brands
Joined UN Global Compact and committed to supporting the Sustainable Development Goals
Joined RE100 and committed to sourcing 100% renewable electricity by 2030, which we accomplished in 2020.
Aligned with the Paris Agreement to keep global warming below 1.5°C by setting science-based carbon reduction targets.
Named by Newsweek Magazine as one of America’s Most Responsible Companies for 2020 and 2021.
Highlights
100% renewable electricity
sourced in 2020
30% kWh decrease per unit
of production (2012-2020)
30% GHG emission
decrease (2012-2020)
70,000+ tons of sustainable
wood inputs sourced annually
Eliminating Waste
Global Packaging
In 2020, we eliminated 350,000lbs of Styrofoam from our packaging assemblies, a material that is not easily recycled by customers, through efforts like updating our worksurface packaging assembly.
Our goal is to move to 100% recyclable packaging by 2025, which will positively impact our customers’ zero waste to landfill goals.
Previous assembly with styrofoam
New assembly with recyclable materials
Certifications
Domestic
325+ Indoor Advantage Gold
Protect indoor air quality and enhance employee productivity
125+ BIFMA LEVEL 3
190+ BIFMA LEVEL 2
Environmentally preferable and socially responsible furniture
185+ Available as FSC Certified
Sustainably sourced wood and lower embodied carbon products
30+ Environmental Product Declarations
Understanding product lifecycle environmental impacts
10+ Cradle to Cradle Certified Bronze
Healthy products evaluated for human and environmental impacts
Lamex and HNI India
40+ Greenguard and Greenguard Gold Products
Protect indoor air quality and enhance employee productivity
26 Certification of China Environmental Labeling
Environmentally preferable and socially responsible furniture
14 China Certification for Ecolabeling
Environmentally preferable and socially responsible furniture
3 BIFMA Level 2
Environmentally preferable and socially responsible furniture
LEED/WELL Certification Contributions
HNI products help customers pursue LEED® green building rating system and WELL Building Standard™ certifications in several important areas.
Responsible Sourcing Efforts
We are in the process of enhancing our supplier code of conduct to increase our expectations and requirements for suppliers in the areas of legal compliance, business integrity, and social and sustainability leadership. Annual certifications will be solicited from suppliers to ensure continued compliance, and we have set a goal to achieve 100% annual compliance by 2022.
Supplier Diversity:
- 3-Year average = 50% spend with small businesses
- 11% with suppliers certified with a socio-economic status
HNI family of companies maintain various levels of supplier diversity, for both direct and indirect supply chain requirements. At HNI, we recognize the value of offering opportunities to small, minority, woman owned and other historically disadvantaged businesses that meet our primary objective of superior product quality.
HNI actively evaluates global supply sources and their abilities to offer cost reduction, without sacrifice to our primary objective of superior product quality. Our philosophy is to select trading partners based on capabilities and essential business criteria.
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
Throughout our product development and manufacturing operations, we utilize a number of “reduce, reuse, and recycle” strategies, including:
- We combine recycled wood with resin to create seating components which help divert several thousand tons of lumber waste annually.
- Some of our product components may contain as much as 75% recycled aluminum, 78% recycled steel, and 90% recycled particle board.
- Select fabrics feature Repreve fibers, made from recycled plastic bottles. Our Hamilton fabric pattern contains 13 recycled bottles per yard.
- Many of our storage counterweights contain scrap plastic from our seating operations. Nearly 10,000lbs of scrap plastic is reused in these components annually.
Furniture End-Of-Use
We take pride in designing products made to last. That said, when our clients are ready for a change, many prefer an end of life option other than landfill disposal for used furniture in good condition.
We developed a program with ANEW, a nonprofit organization that repurposes surplus office furniture, fixtures, and equipment to local organizations and public service agencies in need.
Charitable and Community Giving
- Our charitable giving averages 1% of pre-tax profits annually, supporting environmental, educational, civic, and health and human services projects in communities where we operate.
- Throughout HNI, members volunteer as individuals and groups to causes important to them. From corporate donations to member community involvement, HNI members impact nearly 100 organizations each year.
- Since 2002, we’ve raised over $6 million for the City of Hope, an independent cancer research and treatment center. We raised a record $655,000 in 2019.
Diversity and Inclusion
- We value using each other’s differences in experiences and ideas to solve problems and better serve our customers.
- Five of nine board members are women or ethnic minorities.
- In 2020, we signed the “CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion Pledge” to advance diversity and inclusion and joined the EPIC Corporate Challenge through Women Lead Change to advance diversity, inclusion, and leadership opportunities for women and minorities.
- Our employee resource groups, like our Women in STEM group, help us advance our efforts and empower employees to reach their full potential.
How We Can Help You
1. Reporting on Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
2. Generating Custom Reports Based on Grow Generation's Needs, Including:
- Carbon intensity summaries
- Energy Intensity summaries
- Amount of Renewable Energy used
- Tons of sustainable wood used (FSC)
- Plus more...
3. Supporting Grow Generation's Goals:
- Science for Circular
- Science for Climate
- Science for Community
Future Goals
By 2021, we will:
- Reduce our energy consumption by 10 percent from our 2017 baseline
- Establish a goal for science-based carbon emissions reduction and for renewable energy use
- Achieve zero landfill waste at two of our plants
- Institute a transparent process to evaluate the environmental and social responsibility performance of 85 percent of our tier one suppliers
By 2025, we will:
- Evaluate 100 percent of materials and chemical substances in products for human and ecosystem impacts and attempt to minimize those impacts through Design for the Environment
