Company News

EPA Unveils 2015 Safer Choice Partner Winners

Pride Industries, Earth Friendly Products, Sun Products Corp. to be honored June 22 in Washington, DC.

Author Image

By: Christine Esposito

Editor-in-Chief

Pride Industries, Roseville, CA, has been named a 2015 Safer Choice Partner of the Year award winner for its outstanding achievement in the development, distribution and promotion of its PRIDEClean products.
 
Pride Industries is among 21 Safer Choice Partner of the Year award winners selected the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for 2015. The other formulators/product manufacturers to win the award are: Case Medical, Inc.; Earth Friendly Products; Jelmar; Ospray Biotechnics; The Sun Products Corp.; and Wexford Labs, Inc.
 
Also on the award list as “innovators” are AkzoNobel, Chemlink Laboratories and Stepan Company.
  
To qualify for the Safer Choice (formerly “Design for the Environment”) label, a product must meet EPA’s Safer Choice Standard, which includes stringent human and environmental health criteria. The Safer Choice Program currently has nearly 500 formulator-manufacturer partners who make more than 2,000 products for both retail and institutional customers.
 
“PRIDE Industries’ participation in the Safer Choice Program resulted in the PRIDEClean product line – used in our social business enterprises and distributed through others. Like most companies focused on sustainability, we feel a responsibility to our customers to use the best products possible with the safest formulas. As one of the nation’s largest nonprofit employers of people with disabilities – our responsibility is that much greater,” said Al Ahlm, PRIDEClean product manager. “Our direct customers benefit knowing that their facilities are maintained with human health and safety in mind. Our business partners benefit knowing they can meet the quality and performance expectations of their customers. And our employees benefit from handling the safest products available on a daily basis. We are grateful for the partnership we have found in the Safer Choice Program – where good people can do good work together – while creating social good.”
 
The 2015 Safer Choice Partner of the Year Awards will be presented during a public ceremony on June 22, 2015 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC.

Keep Up With Our Content. Subscribe To Happi Newsletters