Sustainable Design
What is Sustainability at Knoll?
For more than 30 years, Knoll has been an industry leader in sustainable policies and practices designed to protect the biosphere, conserve natural resources and reduce waste. We focus on climate change, third party certification and environmentally sensitive materials, products and manufacturing processes. We pursue meaningful partnerships with third party organizations that provide independent verification of environmental standards that are transparent and universally accepted. 
Sustainable Design
Knoll Design for Environmental Guidelines
The design and development of the Generation by Knoll family followed Knoll Design for the Environment Guidelines, which specify design for durability; using minimum, non-toxic, recyclable and/or rapidly renewable materials; design for recycling; evaluating materials and sources for energy use and impacts throughout the stream of commerce; manufacturing with clean technology and protecting indoor air quality by minimizing off gasses in environments in which products are used.
Sustainable Design
Manufacturing
Our industry-leading clean technology limits and controls emissions in manufacturing. We assemble our chairs in our LEED® Gold, ISO-14001 certified facility in East Greenville, Penn., which is also an OSHA VPP Star site. 100% of electricity used at the site is offset by wind energy. The assembly process features robotic processes to assure manufacturing precision.
Sustainable Design
LEED® and Product Certification
The Generation family of chairs can contribute to achieving LEED® credits. The chairs have earned BIFMA level™ 3 and SMaRT© Sustainable Product certifications and are certified at the most stringent GREENGUARD Children & SchoolsSM standard for indoor air quality.
The chairs underwent full Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), a rigorous, independently audited process that assesses the environmental attributes of a product throughout its total
