Quad/Graphics Inc., announced today that its main Sussex manufacturing plant has received a silver rating in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
The accomplishment makes Quad/Graphics the first company of its kind to achieve any level of LEED certification for a manufacturing site.
Because of its age - 25 years old - Quad/Graphics' Sussex facility qualified for LEED for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB). With 1.7 million square feet of usable space on a 73-acre site, the plant houses almost 60 pieces of heavy industrial press and finishing equipment, and serves as the company's corporate headquarters.
"We're proud of our environmental record and what LEED certification signifies," said Quad/Graphics president and chief executive officer Joel Quadracci. "The fact that we've been able to certify a decades-old manufacturing facility - one that first opened in the 1980s - is a testament to our long-time commitment to environmentalism. It's not something we decided to get into recently. We've been committed to the environment since the very early days of our company - so much so that it is now embedded in our corporate DNA."
Quad/Graphics' Sussex plant is the first of 10 manufacturing sites the printer plans to have certified for LEED.
Quad's Sussex plant earns LEED certification
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