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

• 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

• 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