We celebrated our newly expanded employee garden this week with a good ole’ garden party! Guests enjoyed root beer floats as we gave special recognition to folks who’ve made the planning, expansion and maintenance of the garden possible. We learned a lot from the garden’s inaugural year last summer and set out to expand the [...]
Andersen Corporation’s longstanding commitment to affordable housing and environmental stewardship continues to strengthen the communities in which we live and work. A hundred Andersen employees from multiple facilities recently came together to erect scaffolding, saw boards and pound nails for a week long Habitat for Humanity “Blitz Build”.
Some of these volunteers have worked at this [...]
This year marks 70 years of philanthropy for the Andersen Corporate Foundation. Andersen’s founders realized the importance and value of strong communities, a healthy environment, and a profitable business decades before John Elkington coined the term Triple Bottom Line in 1994.
The mission of the Foundation is, “To better people’s lives and strengthen communities, focusing primarily [...]
Once again Habitat for Humanity is a shining example of how affordable it really can be to build green. Habitat for Humanity of Kent County (MI) is currently building a home for a disabled veteran and his family that’s expected to achieve LEED Gold.
Construction Liaison, Jamison Lenz of AmeriCorps states, “This house follows a standard [...]
Employees at Renewal by Andersen’s headquarters in Cottage Grove, MN, take protecting the environment seriously! So much so, they’ve formed a volunteer group they call ECO3 Warriors. Their mission: reduce waste, conserve energy and improve the environment.
The five core ECO3 Warriors meet twice a month for an hour. They work on and around the production [...]
Last week a small crew from our Minnesota based corporate headquarters traveled to the southeastern U.S. to join volunteers from our storm door plant in Luray, VA in building a duplex. Andersen is a long-standing supporter of Habitat for Humanity (HfH), donating materials, skills and time as part of the company’s support of affordable housing. [...]
It’s ENERGY STAR® Week here at Andersen Corporation. Most of us are familiar with the blue logo found on appliances, indicating greater energy efficiency, but what does it mean for windows? This week’s celebration was designed to bring awareness and clarity of the program to employees and dealers.
Our own Corporate Training group developed an educational [...]
We have a long-standing tradition at Andersen Corporation of supporting the communities in which we live and work. Fall kicks off our annual United Way campaign.
Current economic times are challenging for many; so this year it’s about “what we can do”. Employees across the enterprise pledged $236,000 in just the first week of the campaign! [...]
In an industry-first licensing agreement, Andersen’s Fibrex® material will be used within the photovoltaic (PV) market. SOLON Corporation is one of the largest providers of PV products in the U.S. Andersen’s General Manager of Fibrex Strategic Operations Group, Scott Koenig said, “We’ve used Fibrex material with great success in our window products for nearly 20 [...]
Renewal by Andersen hosted Greening the Supply Chain: Drivers, Challenges and Strategies, August 18, 2011 at their headquarters in Cottage Grove, Minn. The event was put on by the Environmental Initiative, and Andersen has been a sponsor of their Business & Environment Series for over a decade.
Last week’s Greening the Supply Chain was the second [...]
