Pallas Textiles Receives Facts™ Certification
Pallas Textiles has received the Association for Contract Textiles (ACT) Facts certification. Facts certification indicates that a textile has met NSF/ANSI 336, a multi-attribute sustainability standard that evaluates products for environmental, economic and social attributes. The certification gives purchasers and specifiers confidence that they are selecting a product with sustainable aspects.
The purpose of the NSF/ANSI 336 standard is to address the environmental, economic and social aspects of commercial furnishings fabric used in commercial spaces. The standard considers criteria from a product’s lifecycle to get a complete picture of the inputs, outputs and environmental impacts of textile products across a product’s lifespan. The standard is applicable to a variety of contract fabric types used in public spaces such as office, healthcare and institutional interiors.
Certified fabrics must meet prerequisites for each parameter, and can achieve optional credits, earning up to a maximum of 100 points. Based on the total number of points achieved within each category, product certification levels include: Compliant, Silver, Gold or Platinum. Pallas Textiles offers a number of fabrics that are certified at the Compliant, Silver and Gold levels.
About Pallas Textiles
Pallas Textiles beautifully fuses its knowledge of the ancient art of weaving with today’s modern techniques and fibers. The result is an award-winning portfolio of sophisticated, high-performance contract upholsteries, panel fabrics and cubicles that are timeless yet continually evolving in color, pattern and texture. For more than 25 years, Pallas Textiles has achieved meaningful design that’s honest, purposeful and faithful to the composition of its setting. Pallas Textiles is headquartered in Green Bay, Wis. For more information, visit www.pallastextiles.com.
