Our Commitments
We want everyone affiliated with our company to enjoy a profitable relationship with us. This includes our end-user customers, our selling partners, our dealers, our employees, our supporting contractors, and our supply chain partners.
Treating People Right
We believe in treating others fairly with dignity and respect. We would rather empower people than limit them—celebrate personal professional growth as well as business success.
We will not tolerate behaviors that are hurtful but we also realize nobody is perfect. Sometimes a second chance is warranted depending on circumstances.
Social Responsibility
We want to be associated with people and firms that act to make a difference in the world.
For example, some of our suppliers employ re-entered citizens from the Department of Corrections who want to change their direction in life. We applaud such initiatives and see value in using business as a way to make a better world.
If you think your values align with ours, we would be pleased to discuss a relationship.
Everybody wins
August Berres’ products are designed to use materials that enhance user health and well-being. are safely manufactured, dimensionally stable, consistent, strong, durable, and recyclable.
No Hazardous Materials
To the best of our knowledge, no materials used by first or second-tier suppliers that are EPA-reportable as hazardous waste streams (per the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act or RCRA) are present in any component of the product line or used in manufacturing processes.
Lower Carbon Footprint
Strong consideration has been given to making material choices that reduce the carbon footprint of the final product and improve indoor air quality. We have avoided the use of laminates and edge-banding as the carbon footprint for our powder-coated wood components, by one study, is over four times less than high-pressure laminate and PVC edge-banding. All painted metal components use powder-coat technology. All plastics used in the products are recyclable.
We also know of one company that is rapidly expanding its process for recycling Lithium-ion batteries with 98% recovery.
Grid-saving Power System
The August Berres’ battery power system is a unique environmentally friendly feature in another way. As the world’s power grids continue to age, battery-powered devices reduce grid replacement costs. Batteries can charge at night when the grid is less challenged and utility rates are lower. Conversely, batteries can be depleted at peak usage times of day when the grid is the most challenged and utility rates are the highest.
Peak power plants are expensive relative to the annual number of hours of operation. Power generation replacement costs can be reduced by reducing peak usage. Utilities and regulatory agencies have or will introduce significant increases in rates related to time-of-use (TOU). Utility experts consider batteries to be a “power generation” source as they supplant the need for peak power.
Clean Operational Resilience
Many businesses and agencies operate critical processes that are vulnerable to power outages. Respond! provides resilience at the workstation level. Expensive standby diesel generator systems and facility-wide battery solutions can be avoided with intelligently designed resilience plans that incorporate the Respond! system. The August Berres system anticipates offsite charging during times of crisis—our battery charging products include mobile options.
Environmentally Responsible Specifications
We are committed to protecting your privacy. We value your trust. The following policy statement exists to explain how we collect, use, and safeguard the personal information you may provide through forms on this website.
Information Collection
You browse our website anonymously. This site does not automatically collect personal information.
Your IP address may be identified by our servers. If it is logged in it will provide trending information including what parts of the website you visited and how long you spent in each section. Your IP address is not linked to anything personally identifiable. The only information automatically collected is the browser version, type of computer, and operating system you are using. Your internet browser transmits this information.
This website does not use “cookies” to manipulate information. In the future, cookies may be employed to support additional site features and to simplify your interaction with the site.
Registration
Certain online forms and correspondence features request that you voluntarily supply personal information, such as your email address or phone number.
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to and /or collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact methods.
We will not sell, rent, distribute or give your personal information to any third party without your knowledge and consent. This information will be used only to contact you about the products and/or services on our site in which you have expressed interest.
Information Storage and Data Security
We intend to safeguard the information that you submit to us. To this end, we have physical, electronic, and managerial procedures in place to secure the information you provide to us online.
However, we cannot ensure the security of the information you transmit over the internet. Therefore, we urge you to take every precaution to protect your personal data while on the internet and advise you that you do assume the risk of a third party obtaining that information.
This privacy policy is subject to change at any time and without notice. For updates, please review our Full Privacy Policy.
