We Come In Hundreds Of Colors' All Of Them Green'

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We Come In Hundreds Of Colors. All Of Them Green.

• APPRECIATED BY THE PLANET. MEASURED BY THE FOOT.TM

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Environmental Overview

• The New Patcraft Designweave is a member of
  the Shaw
• Industries family
• We benefit from this relationship and we pass
  these benefits
• on to you
• Shaws investment in environmentally sound
  manufacturing
• processes and the development of sustainable
  product
• ingredients is paying off for us, for you and
  for the environment

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Environmental Overview

• We have inherited the Shaw Green Edge which
  demonstrates
• environmental leadership through demonstrable
  progress
• The New Patcraft Designweave contributes to
  the hundreds
• of environmental initiatives occurring
  throughout the company
• that have positive environmental, economic and
  social
• impacts
• Collectively, these initiatives add up to the
  Shaw Green Edge

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Shaw Green Edge
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Shaw Industries Environmental Policy

• Environmental sustainability is our destination
  and Cradle to
• Cradle is our path
• Our entire corporation and all stakeholders
  value and share
• this vision
• Through eco-effective technology, we will
  continuously
• redesign our products, our processes, and our
  corporation
• We take responsibility for all that we do and
  strive to return
• our products to technical nutrient cycles,
  virtually eliminating
• the concept of waste

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Sustainable sustainable

• Capable of being continued with minimal
  long-term effect of
• the environment
• With products from The New Patcraft
  Designweave, you
• have the option to decide the impact your
  project makes on
• the environment
• Other manufacturers recycle we Lifecycle with
  sustainable
• ingredient brands and eco-intelligent processes

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Cradle To Cradle
Its about doing something thats incredibly
good creating high quality products that
sacrifice nothing and actually benefit the
environment
Its not about limiting the amount of bad that we
do in the world
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Cradle To Cradle
The cradle-to-cradle strategy that Michael
Braungart and I developed goes far beyond
brute recycling. It embraces materials that were
designed to be used as technical or biological
nutrient- safe and healthy materials designed for
infinite lifecycles. Thats why products like
Eco Solution Q and EcoWorx are so important
materials brought to pure technical cycles,
uncontaminated, forever and ever.
-William McDonough
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Components of Sustainability

• Components of our Cradle to Cradle Process
• Ingredient Brands
• EcoWorx Tile Backing
• EcoWorx Performance Broadloom
• Eco Solution Q
• Process Solutions
• Evergreen Nylon Recycling Facility
• SmartWay Transportation

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Ingredient Brands

• We use product ingredients inherited from Shaw
  that are
• recycled and recyclable to make products that
  are
• sustainable
• Eco Solution Q fiber and EcoWorx backing are
  among the
• first ever Cradle To Cradle certified products
• Eco Solution Q and EcoWorx backing can be
  recycled in a
• continuous loop, again and again, forever

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Eco Solution Q Premium Branded Nylon
Waste FoodNylon 6-depolymerized into
Caprolactam
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Eco Solution Q Premium Branded Nylon

• Eco Solution Q premium branded type 6 nylon
  began
• incorporating recycled content 1996
• As a Cradle-to-Cradle product, Eco Solution Q
  can be
• recycled in a continuous loop, again and
  again, forever
• Eco Solution Q uses an average of 23 million
  pounds of
• recycled content annually

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Evergreen Nylon Recycling FacilityAugusta, GA

• The New Patcraft Designweave operates a
  nationwide
• collection system that supplies discarded
  carpet to our
• Evergreen Nylon Recycling facility in Augusta,
  Georgia
• The Evergreen facility uses patented technology
• to convert nylon carpet into caprolactam, the
  raw
• material used to make nylon 6

eco-fact By recycling Eco Solution Q, Shaw
saves enough energy each year to equal the energy
in 16 million gallons of gasoline
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Evergreen Nylon Recycling FacilityAugusta, GA

• Nylon fibers are recycled over and over again
  without the
• loss of any aesthetic or performance
  properties.

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Evergreen Collection Network
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Reducing Our Footprint
We continue to look at multiple processes for
recycling both Type 6 and Type 6,6 nylon to
expand our recycling capabilities and increase
our recycled content We collected 28 million
pounds of caprolactam in 2007 and expect to grow
that number to 35 million pounds in 2008 and 40
million pounds in 2009
The Shaw Evergreen Nylon Recycling Facility
produces 30 million pounds of caprolactam monomer
from 100 million pounds of nylon 6 carpet
waste We save about 2 trillion BTUs annually
compared to virgin monomer production
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Type 6 and 6,6 Nylon

• Both Type 6 and 6,6 nylons have dye sites. These
  are not
• holes on the fiber surface that fill with dye,
  but rather
• electrical charges that either resist or
  absorb color.
• Carefully controlled tests, where all processes
  and
• construction parameters were identical, have
  demonstrated
• that fiber type has no impact on soiling rate.
• The lower temperature requirements for the
  extrusion of
• Type 6 nylon offers less pigment restrictions
  and greater
• color flexibility.

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Type 6 and 6,6 Nylon

• Factors that influence the performance of a
  product, more
• than the type of nylon are
• fiber properties
• yarn construction
• carpet construction
• color and pattern (collectively)
• backing construction
• quality of installation
• proper maintenance

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Type 6 and 6,6 Nylon

• Shaw Fibers is the worlds largest manufacturer
  of Type 6
• nylon.
• Type 6 nylon provides exceptional color and high
• performance characteristics.
• Type 6 nylon has environmental benefits in that
  it can be
• depolymerized and returned to the
  manufacturing process,
• again and again, the closed loop process
  referred to as
• Cradle to Cradle.

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EcoWorx Tile Backing System

• The industrys first 100 sustainable, non-PVC
  tile backing system
• Polyolefin thermoplastic fiber and backing
  separation

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EcoWorx Tile Backing System

• Awarded the Presidential Green Chemistry Award
  by the
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its
  environmental
• and performance benefits
• Backed by an environmental guarantee, The New
  Patcraft
• Designweave will pick up EcoWorx -backed
  products, at no
• cost to you, and recycle it into more EcoWorx
• Contains 40 recycled content

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EcoWorx Tile Backing System

• EcoWorx backing helps our environment by simply
  being a lighter,
• stronger alternative to PVC.
• Lighter backing means fewer truckloads. Which
  means less diesel
• used. Which of course means less carbon
  dioxide released into
• our atmosphere.
• Since its introduction in 1999, EcoWorx has
  saved Shaw Industries
• 2,538,000 truck miles.
• That is equivalent to 11.3 million pounds of
  carbon dioxide never
• released into the earths atmosphere.

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EcoWorx Performance BroadloomTM

• The commercial carpet industrys first fully
  sustainable, non-
• PVC, Cradle to Cradle carpet backing for
  broadloom carpet
• products
• EcoWorx Performance Broadloom is a Silver
  certified Cradle
• to Cradle product that contributes toward LEED
  earning
• Innovation in Design points

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EcoWorx Performance BroadloomTM

• Cradle-to-cradle design means that the backing
  is fully
• recyclable into more EcoWorx backing at the
  end of its useful
• life
• Recycled using Shaws proprietary dissolution
  process

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EcoLogix Cushion Backing

• EcoLogix Cushion Backing is an environmentally
  responsible
• product designed for comfort in high
  performance applications
• Constructed of 91 post consumer recycled
  content

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EcoLogix Cushion Backing

• Thousands of green plastic soda bottles are
  diverted from
• landfills every year and recycled into
  EcoLogix carpet
• cushioning system for a value-added second
  life
• EcoLogix performs four times better than
• traditional urethane backing, resists
• compression, and provides better long-term
• comfort and support than conventional modular
• backing systems

eco-fact The plastic soda bottle you throw away
today wont be gone until your great, great,
great, great, great, great, great, great, great,
great, great, great, great, great, great
grandchild is born.
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Yellow Grease

• At Shaw Plants 11, 14, and 16, we're working
  towards switching
• over from natural gas to Yellow Grease (YG).
• Yellow Grease is an alternative fuel that is
  collected from the
• preparation of food.
• After it is cleaned, it has the potential to be
  used as boiler fuel.
• Yellow Grease is a renewable energy source and
  comparable to
• natural gas in its pricing.

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SmartWay Transportation Distribution

• Shaw Transport participates in the Environmental
  Protection
• Agency (EPA) SmartWaySM Transport Partner
  Program
• The SmartWay partnership increases energy
  efficiency while
• significantly reducing greenhouse gases and
  air pollution
• Logging more than 72 million miles annually,
  Shaw Transport
• will use the EPAs Fleet Logistics Energy and
  Environmental
• Tracking System (FLEET) to document planning
  and provide
• the EPA with an annual report of progress

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Follow The LEED-er

• The Leadership in Energy and Environmental
  Design (LEED)
• Green Building Rating System is a voluntary,
  consensus
• based national standard for developing
  high-performance,
• sustainable buildings
• Choosing a sustainable carpet system can secure
  one
• component among a list of building materials
  contributing
• toward the design and certification of a LEED
  building

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Follow The LEED-er

• No one product can be LEED certified
• Meeting the minimum credit requirements often
  requires
• the LEED team to specify a multitude of
  environmentally
• responsible products
• All products from The New Patcraft Designweave
  can
• help contribute to points toward earning LEED
• certification

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Follow The LEED-er
Categories where carpet can contribute Materials
and Resources Recycled Content Credit 4.1 and
4.2 Materials and Resources Local/Regional
Materials Credit 5.1 and 5.2 Indoor
Environmental Quality Low Emitting Materials
Credit 4.3
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LEED Categories Carpet
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LEED Categories Carpet
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Recycled Content Calculation
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