Skyline & The Environment
At Skyline we consider "being green" a major achievement and of the greatest importance.
Skyline contributes to environmental sustainability in two ways: By providing lighter weight, modular exhibits that have a smaller environmental impact than traditional custom exhibits; and by minimising the impact on the environment from our manufacturing operations.
Skyline Island Exhibit
REDUCE
Our Products:
Skyline designs and develops exhibits that do not cause unnecessary waste of materials due to short life, poor design, inefficient construction and manufacturing processes. Skyline uses one third of the materials of traditional custom exhibits. For example: a typical Skyline island exhibit weighs 19kg per square metre, whereas a typical custom exhibit weighs on average 48kg per square metre. A Skyline exhibit will not only save you money on shipping and operations costs, it also uses less material overall.
Skyline products also ship in much less space than traditional custom exhibits helping to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions during the life of the exhibit.
Our lightweight exhibits require fewer materials, thus lowering operating costs and environmental impact.
Skyline Island Exhibit Shipping Cases
Our Operations:
Skyline made the decision to improve every-day business practices in order to align with environmental sustainability. We believe that investing in higher quality equipment allows us to reduce scrap, waste, and energy consumption, and produce higher quality products.
- Exhibit Systems: Many of Skyline's exhibit systems are based on metal frameworks. Skyline makes every effort to optimise each and every sheet of metal used.
- Painting: Skyline paints its thousands of metal parts with electrostatic powder paint, which produces nearly no waste and does not require environmentally harmful solvents for clean up.
- Shipping: It is our principle to consolidate shipping wherever possible, which reduces the number of boxes and amount of packaging used.
- Packaging: We have replaced a portion of our foam usage during packaging and shipping, with air-filled cushion technology (that can be deflated after shipping), and recyclable honeycomb cardboard.
- Printing: By making our marketing materials available in electronic format via our web site we can cut down on excess printing and save massive amounts of paper.
Traditional Custom Exhibit
REUSE
Our Products:
Clients purchasing Skyline exhibits can use their system over and over again. All of our exhibit systems allow for varying configurations, changing designs with the same components. Skyline also has a large inventory of rental systems than can be used for a show, sent back and used again. Each option optimises the life cycle of our exhibit systems.
Our Operations:
Custom Exhibit Disposal
As part of our lean manufacturing processes, Skyline also has a commitment to reusing as much of our excess material as possible - contributing to the conservation of energy and resources, whilst keeping waste out of our landfills.
- As our metal exhibit systems in our rental inventory become damaged from multiple uses, we strip the paint in the most environmentally friendly way. Then repaint them and reuse them.
- Skyline has saved over 14,000kg of powder paint since upgrading our system in July 2004. Skyline now uses a smaller, equally capable system that is able to vacuum, filter and reuse any excess powder paint.
- In Skyline's woodshop, raw plywood scrap is reused in several different ways; smaller pieces are used to make boxes to hold our tube system base plates. Larger pieces are used in the production of custom wood crates.
Skyline Rental Inventory
Skyline believes that good business practices are synonymous with environmental stewardship.