Cradle to Cradle TM Brons

Beddeleem achieves its second milestone on the Cradle to Cradle® front.

The JB 2000 METAL, JB FRAME and JB FLUSH relocatable partitions have won Cradle to Cradle™ Bronze. The JB SKY, JB PURE and JB 4000 relocatable partitions already achieved Cradle to CradleTM Silver last year.

Altogether, Beddeleem already has six certified relocatable partitions and they are not stopping at that! New certifications are already in the pipeline." This requires a great deal of commitment from our people and from suppliers, but we are convinced that sustainable business is the future, "says the management.

Cradle to Cradle® is a new business model that aims to design products that are safe and reusable from start to finish.  This calls for a whole new type of collaboration between the supplier, the producer, the user and the installer. Cradle to Cradle® is therefore a strategy for product and process innovation, in which the closure of material cycles is central. It is the challenge to develop products that are safe and healthy for people and the environment and which, after use, can also be completely dismantled into valuable raw materials, or are completely degradable in the biosphere.

Cradle to Cradle® revolves around 5 criteria: healthy materials, reuse of materials, renewable energy, water management and social justice. A score is given for each of these points, and the lowest score is the final score of the product. The scores range from basic through bronze, silver and gold to platinum.

On the reuse of materials, water management and social justice and business ethics, Beddeleem scored silver. And even gold for renewable energy. The decisive factor in Beddeleem's products is the use of healthy materials. And this is also a factor where you mostly depend on suppliers. Beddeleem therefore works together with suppliers whose products are also certified under the Cradle to Cradle® denominator. "In this way, producer and supplier work together for better products".