Cradle to Cradle®

Products without waste.

Lindner Products were always meant to fulfil their intended tasks in the best possible way for very long time and have been carefully developed and manufactured in a resource-efficient way. Now we are going one step further: following the Cradle to Cradle^® principle, we increasingly consider the entire life cycle of products and their components. Our goal is to avoid waste from the very start of the cycle, meaning that products are designed in a way that they can serve as raw material for the next generation of the same produce – a closed technical cycle. What may sound simple actually poses quite a challenge for complex system products, which are assembled from many different components, which themselves consist of all kinds of materials.

Thanks to continuous efforts in research and development, Lindner has laid the foundations for a closed loop of manufacture, NORTEC being the pioneer product. The carrier panel for this raised floor is produced from FGD gypsum, processed water and cellulose fibres at the Lindner facility in Dettelbach, Germany. Building on the knowledge gained from a profound Life-Cycle Assessment acc. to ISO 14040/44 and the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) acc. to ISO 14025, NORTEC could be further enhanced to be awarded the Cradle to Cradle^® Silver certificate as the first system floor worldwide.