About IceStone
IceStone® is the world’s safest, most sustainable durable surface. Made from three core ingredients —100% recycled glass, Portland cement, and pigment— IceStone® surfaces are the perfect choice for everything from kitchen countertops to conference room tables to art installations.
IceStone was co-founded by two long-term members of Investors’ Circle and Social Venture Network – believers that business can be a tool for social and environmental sustainability. IceStone has been collaborating with green-building businesses, non-profits, and sustainability organizations since our formation. IceStone hopes that the B Corporation community continues to provide leadership, teamwork, and the models to fortify the presence of sustainable businesses.
The Change We Seek™
IceStone, LLC is Designing A Better Way, with style, service and sustainability at the heart of everything we do. Since 2003, IceStone, LLC has diverted over 10 million pounds of glass from landfills. As IceStone® is made with only non-toxic ingredients, our surfaces are safe and healthy through and through for our customers, our employees and our planet.
IceStone® is the only surface to be granted Gold certification level by Cradle to Cradle®. IceStone® has been installed in such notable projects as the Bank of America Tower (the first LEED Platinum Building in the United States), and the United States Green Building Council’s headquarters. The product has also won ASID’s Bloom Award, Interior Design Magazine’s Merit Award for Green Products, and many other accolades.
What makes us a better company?
B Impact Report |
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Certified since:November 2007 |
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| Summary: | Company Score |
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Accountability
AccountabilityThe Accountability section of the Assessment evaluates a company's governance and transparency. This section focuses on the company's mission, stakeholder engagement, and overall transparency of the company's practices and policies. |
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Employees
EmployeesThe employee section of the survey assesses the company's relationship with its workforce. This section measures how the company treats its workers through compensation, benefits, training, and ownership opportunities provided to workers. It also focuses on the overall work environment within the company through management/worker communication, job flexibility and corporate culture, and worker health and safety practices. |
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Consumers
ConsumersTThe Consumers section of the Assessment measures the impact a company has on its customers. The section focuses on whether a company sells products or services that promote public benefit, and if those products/services are targeted towards serving underserved populations. Questions in this section will measure whether a company’s product or service is designed to solve a social or environmental issue (e.g. improves health, preserves environment or creates economic opportunity to individuals or communities, promotes the arts/sciences, or increases the flow of capital to purpose-driven enterprises). |
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Community
CommunityThe Community section of the survey assesses a company's impact on its community. The Community section evaluates a company's supplier relations, diversity, and involvement in the local community. The section also measures the company's practices and policies around community service and charitable giving. In addition, this section includes if a company's product or service is designed to solve a social issue, including access to basic services, health, education, economic opportunity, arts, and increasing the flow of capital to purpose-driven enterprises. |
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Environment
EnvironmentThe Environment section of the Assessment evaluates a company's environmental performance through its facilities; materials, resource, and energy use; and emissions. Where applicable, it also considers a company's transportation/distribution channels and environmental impact of its supply chain. This section also measures whether a company's products or services are designed to solve an environmental issue, including products that aid in the provision of renewable energy, conserve resources, reduce waste, promote land/wildlife conservation, prevent toxic/hazardous substance or pollution, or educate, measure, or consult to solve environmental problems. |
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| Overall B Score | 86 | |
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80 out of 200 is eligible for certification *Of all businesses that have completed the B Impact Assessment |
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Company Highlights:
Environment: 100% products certified Gold level Cradle to Cradle; 100% recycled glass used in production; closed-loop water system; 100% facilities powered by renewable energy credits; per-unit waste reduced bi-annually for all waste streams.
Employees: >10% company set-aside for profit sharing; living wage paid to all full and part-time employees; >50% health insurance premiums paid for families.
Community: >40% management and Board from previously excluded populations; >75% employees work in low income communities; >30% employees and 25% suppliers from low income communities.
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Videos
Watch IceStone's GOOD Magazine Partnership Video
News
• B Lab and IceStone featured in CNN Money's "Conscious Capitalism" Go»
• B Corporations Nominated in BusinessWeek's "Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs" Go»
• IceStone Featured in BusinessWeek's "Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs" Go»
• IceStone Company Press Page Go»