Behind the Brand
COMPANY NAME: Tork, an Essity brand EXPERTISE: Sustainable Hygiene Management CSP LEVEL: Silver WEBSITE: torkusa.com
COMPANY NAME: Armstrong Ceiling Solutions EXPERTISE: Ceiling and wall solutions CSP LEVEL: Silver WEBSITE: armstrongceilings.com/commercial
Who is Tork?
Tell us your “why” in the FM world.
Tork is the Professional Hygiene brand from Essity, a leading global hygiene and health company. The Tork brand offers professional hygiene products and services to customers worldwide, ranging from restaurants and healthcare facilities to offices, schools, and industrial facilities. Our products include dispensers, paper towels, toilet tissue, soap, napkins, wipers, but beyond physical cleaning products, we offer software solutions for datadriven cleaning. Through expertise in hygiene, functional design, and sustainability, Tork has become a market leader that truly supports customers and inspires them to think ahead so that they are always ready for business. Tork is a global brand of Essity, and a committed partner to customers in over 110 countries. To keep up with the latest Tork news and innovations, please visit www.torkusa.com.
Facility managers are looking for ways to improve offices, retail environments and other commercial buildings for occupant health, safety and productivity. Armstrong Ceiling Solutions, has been in business for over 160 years, and we believe a healthier space starts at the top — with the ceiling. The ceiling pulls together core elements of a healthy space — air quality and ventilation, lighting, acoustics, sustainability, and design. Building on our legacy of leading-edge product design and materials science, the Armstrong sustainable ceiling and wall portfolio includes solutions to enhance air quality, acoustics, natural light reflectance, all customizable in performance and design configuration.
What does “Sustainable Hygiene Management” mean? Tork defines sustainable hygiene management as the practice of fully integrating products and services into customer processes and procedures to achieve the hygiene standards appropriate for the given environment, or a person within that environment, in a sustainable way. While there has been a heightened awareness of hygiene practices due to the global pandemic, sustainability also remains top of mind for employers and employees. Effective hygiene management and sustainability measures are frequently seen as separate necessities to meet rising visitor/employee expectations, but sustainable hygiene management can improve business performance within both areas in a seamless, efficient manner. Facility managers do not need to choose between addressing visitor/employee demands and meeting business needs — they can satisfy them both when partnering with Tork. Tork brings the expertise needed to improve business efficiency, workflows, staff well-being, and guest experience — all while supporting sustainability efforts. To learn more how Tork has implemented sustainability practices visit: www.torkusa.com/sustainability/ world-leader/sustainability.
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What’s on the horizon in your field/industry, and how is Armstrong meeting those challenges and opportunities? With the renewed focus and importance placed on indoor environmental quality, Armstrong Ceiling Solutions is producing ceiling and wall solutions that “clean, contain and protect” by improving indoor air quality, acoustics, and natural and supplemental lighting. The Armstrong 24/7 Defend™ portfolio includes AirAssure™ ceilings and VidaShield UV24™ air purification systems to maintain and improve indoor air quality. The portfolio also features CleanAssure performance, Total Acoustics™ ceilings to provide the best combination of sound-absorbing and sound blocking properties, and ceilings from the Sustain® portfolio that meet the highest industry sustainability standards today. Tell us about your corporate social responsibility and environmental, social and governance efforts or projects. Armstrong was the first to institute a ceiling recycling program and was a founding member of the U.S. Green Building Council in 1993. Armstrong continues the commitment to sustainability and healthy buildings through a new partnership with 9 Foundations, Inc. consisting of leading scientific experts on the connections between human health and built environments, bringing unmatched technical knowledge and experience to the most critical public health challenges of our time. With this partnership, 9F will work with Armstrong in its continued focus on manufacturing ceiling and wall solutions based on the most advanced healthy building science and design.
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