Honors Highlight - Simply Sustainable RESET Flooring in Asia

Sustainability is a core value at Milliken and it influences many facets of our work - from informing many of our new products and innovations to shaping how we care for our communities. Our twelve, 2025 People, Product, and Planet Goals, and our certified Net-Zero targets support our commitment to sustainability. The Milliken Honors program would be incomplete without highlighting team members who make tremendous strides on our behalf as we strive to make progress on our goals.

This year’s 2023 Milliken Product Goals Award recipient set out to make purchasing decisions simpler for our flooring customers.

The Simply Sustainable RESET Flooring team, based in the Asia Pacific region, knows the impact our flooring portfolio can make when used in interior spaces. Often, though, these sustainability benefits take time to relay to the customers. How could we present the compelling sustainability story behind our flooring products in a way that both aligns with best practices and makes things easy to understand?

Using RESET Embodied, a new third-party standard for calculating the environmental performance of building materials and products, Milliken Flooring could easily convey its product performance in three categories: Carbon, Circularity, and Health. This third-party program would assign a RESET Embodied score to verified products so customers can clearly understand the ecological footprint a material choice can have.

Lizzie Kang, Jade Liu, Joy Zhang, Mark Zhao, and Shi Qiu set out to certify Milliken’s WellBAC® Comfort range of flooring to RESET Embodied, and the lift spanned the company and the globe. WellBAC® Comfort is the foundational layer of our performance-driven carpet tiles. Collaborating across functional teams and international locations, Simply Sustainable RESET Flooring team worked for over a year to garner the certification. In May 2023, they happily announced the WellBAC® Comfort carpet backing ranked as the number one flooring product, according to the RESET scoring system.

RESET Embodied score is one more way Milliken is leveraging third-party certifications and ratings to validate sustainable product claims and build customer trust. Congratulations, Simply Sustainable RESET Flooring team, and thank you for your efforts on behalf of our company and customers!

For more information on Milliken’s sustainability efforts, check out our latest sustainability report.