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Sustainability

People:

  • Provide paid employee training with focus on workforce’s practical skill development to ensure competitiveness
  • Encourage innovation and development of a strong patent portfolio
  • Subsidize full family health insurance
  • Provide employee tuition reimbursement
  • Provide a generous schedule of paid holidays, vacation and sick time
  • Subsidize employee participation in commuter vanpools
  • Support United Way Annual Campaign – earned Outstanding Employee Campaign Award
  • Pay employees for volunteer efforts in United Way Day of Caring
  • Earned Outstanding Company Contribution Award – Scaffold Industry Association
  • Promote membership in and contribution to related industry associations and committees
  • Regularly organize blood drives, collections for local food banks, and raising funds in response to natural disasters
Planet:
  • Developed products with intent to reduce road miles associated with upkeep and maintenance
  • Make fleet operational decisions to reduce road miles
  • Support telecommuting for appropriate job functions
  • Use online meeting hosting to avoid air travel miles
  • Moved to paperless, online process for transaction approvals and multi-approver sign-offs
  • Moved shared work projects online for all document tracking to reduce paper creation
  • Use recycled packaging
  • Recycle aluminum and steel waste
  • Reduce galvanization of steel components whenever possible to enable recycling
  • Move more literature online to reduce printed sales literature
  • Print sales literature on recycled or FSC certified paper
  • Increased natural light in factory and installed occupant-activated lighting in offices
  • Qualified as strategic supplier to wind energy OEMS - Vestas, GE Wind, Siemens, Suzlon, RePower, Enercon and Gamesa
Profit:
  • Financially very strong, privately held Seattle, Washington- based global company
  • Backed by A+15 rated AIG with a $21M umbrella
  • Recognized as one of Washington’s Top 150 Privately Held companies
  • Recognized as a Top 100 Rental Companies in North America