ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP

Kountry Wood Products is honored to be certified by the KCMA Environmental Stewardship Program. This is a rigorous process that helps guarantee that everyone is doing their part to provide you with sustainable cabinetry products.

ESP goes beyond other environmental programs to not only look at raw material sourcing and management,
but to also set standards for manufacturing, product processes, recycling and air quality.

ESP certification is awarded annually and is based on five categories:

  • Air Quality
  • Products Resource Management
  • Process Resource Management
  • Environmental Stewardship
  • Community Relations

Kountry Wood Products is a proud SmartWay Transport Partner which helps companies advance supply chain sustainability by measuring, benchmarking, and improving freight transportation efficiency.

This voluntary public-private program:

  • provides a comprehensive and well-recognized system for tracking, documenting and sharing information about fuel use and freight emissions across supply chains
  • helps companies identify and select more efficient freight carriers, transport modes, equipment, and operational strategies to improve supply chain sustainability and lower costs from goods movement
  • supports global energy security and offsets environmental risk for companies and countries
  • reduces freight transportation-related emissions by accelerating the use of advanced fuel-saving technologies
  • is supported by major transportation industry associations, environmental groups, state and local governments, international agencies, and the corporate community

Core Elements of SmartWay – There are three core components of the SmartWay Program.

The SmartWay Transport Partnership

Freight shippers, carriers, logistics companies and other stakeholders partner with EPA to measure, benchmark and improve logistics operations so they can reduce their environmental footprint.

The SmartWay Brand

Through SmartWay technology verification and branding, EPA has accelerated availability, adoption and market penetration of fuel-saving technologies and operational practices while helping companies save fuel, lower costs and reduce adverse environmental impacts.

SmartWay Global Collaboration

EPA works with a broad range of national and global organizations to harmonize sustainability accounting methods in the freight sector. SmartWay also provides support to global policy makers that wish to model transportation sustainability programs after the SmartWay program.