Back in the early 1980’s ILLUSIONS recognized the need to conserve water. Rather than use well water to cool our laminators, we installed a closed-loop cooling system which eliminated more than 90% of our water consumption.

Our plants and warehouse are strategically situated in close proximity to local and interstate highways, as well as to the port, in Newark, New Jersey. In fact, the distance from our warehouse to the port is less than 10 miles. Needless to say, this greatly reduces fuel consumption and emissions from material shipped to domestic and international destinations.

While maintaining the traditional composition of vinyl and true fabric backing, our wallcovering products contain recycled content. Utilizing recycled content decreases the need to extract and process virgin materials, helping to reduce the pollution associated with material extraction and processing. This is in addition to the benefit of reducing the amount of waste that is sent to landfills. Eliminating toxic solvents from our wallcovering products is beneficial to the Enviroment and healthier for consumers, minimizing ozone depletion and producing less smog potential by minimizing VOC’s. Product Development Always looking to improve on their already sustainable products, ILLUSIONS introduced the ReVive Eco-Logical Wallcovering option, incorporating fully recycled backing, for an even greener wallcovering product. This product also utilizes water-based inks and is free of heavy metals. The combination of a product manufactured with every effort to ensure sustainability, along with a level of durability that ensures many years of use, results in an incredibly smart choice for a “Green” decorating project.

While individual products cannot be LEED certified, certain products help contribute toward projects seeking LEED certification, when combined with a multitude of other products and additional factors. (Visit www.usgbc.org for more detailed information.) Our wallcovering products can contribute to LEED projects in the following categories: MR 4.1 Recycled Content, 10% (post consumer + ½ pre-consumer) MR 5.1 (CI) Regional Materials, 20% Manufactured Locally (for projects within a 500 mile radius of Wayne, NJ.) EQ 4.1 Low-Emitting Materials, Adhesives and Sealants (when using low emitting adhesives)

We remain committed to our mission of Enviromental responsibility and are continuously seeking new ways to be proactive in producing wallcovering products with the least amount of impact on the Enviroment – without compromising on style and quality. Our customers can look forward to additional product lines with Enviromentally sound attributes in the near future. Specific objectives and targets include: EMS: OBJECTIVES AND TARGETS 1. Obtain and Maintain NSF 342 Certification to encompass 100% of our products. 2. Monitor air emission and facility operation for low VOC output. 3. Monitor water quality levels to ensure discharge water is acceptable. 4. Reduce energy consumption and purchase renewable energy to reduce Green House Gas for 100% of energy used at the facility. 5. Reformulate Materials to eliminate chemicals of concern. a. Reduce the VOC emissions by using water based versus solvent inks. Completely achieved. b. Constantly researching new and alternate materials to make high performance wallcovering, with reduced Enviromental impacts 6. Remove chemicals of concern as per CapProp65 – 100% achieved. 7. Create product loops to keep material out of landfills. 8. Reduce scrap levels to reduce cost and the need for more virgin vinyl. 9. Increase the recycled content in all aspects of the product. 10. Leftover ink will be returned to ink room and revamped into ink for upcoming product. Our goal is to recycle 85% of all ink. 11. Improve lighting to use less electricity and reduce the carbon footprint. 12. Replace motors with variable speed drives to save energy and reduce cost.