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Shaw Industries

Shaw Industries

Evaluation Completed: 
March 16, 2025
Adults
Bathroom
Bedroom
Kitchen
Home Improvement
Renovating
Moving

Shaw Industries makes lots of different kinds of residential, commercial and industrial flooring products. For purposes of this evaluation, we’re focused on the residential flooring products including carpet, rugs, and resilient flooring. Our research on Shaw turned up some strong performance in terms of safety and sustainability practices. We are particularly impressed with their work on both environmental as well as social impact and treating people fairly.

Hilde Status:

Avoid

Consider

Recommended

We try to avoid purchasing or using products made by this company or their brands in our homes.
We may decide to purchase or use products made by this company or their brands in our homes when other options are not accessible.
We regularly try to purchase and use products made by this company or their brands in our homes.
Hilde Ratings
Topic
Rating
Ingredient Safety
Environmental impact
People Benefits
Accountability
Hilde Approved Certifications
Forest Stewardship Council
Cradle to Cradle
Hilde Likes

Good focus on people issues

Leadership in producer responsibility

Public disclosure and reporting

Solid foundation on ingredient safety

Using circular design thinking

Opportunities for Improvement

Engaging in public policy advocacy

Aligning political activities

Benchmarking ingredient safety practices

Adopting a context-based approach to sustainability

Bolder action on climate impacts

Additional Information
Parent Company:
None
Owned Brands:
Shaw Flooring, Anderson Tuftex, Coretec
Product Types:
Carpet, rugs, resilient flooring

Evaluation Summary

Company Insights

Category Description

Our ingredient safety evaluation criteria are designed to help us determine how a company measures, manages, and discloses, the use of chemicals of concern that may be present in raw materials, ingredients, manufacturing processes, and finished products.

Foundational Gaps

The company does not meet sufficient baseline criteria for this category and has many opportunities for improvement.

Solid Baseline

The company meets most of our basic criteria and sometimes demonstrates a deeper commitment than other companies on issues in this category.

Strong Performance:

The company appears to be a top performer in this evaluation category and exhibits leadership on one or more of the issues we evaluate.

Foundational Gaps

The company does not meet sufficient baseline criteria for this category and has many opportunities for improvement.

Solid Baseline

The company meets most of our basic criteria and sometimes demonstrates a deeper commitment than other companies on issues in this category.

Strong Performance:

The company appears to be a top performer in this evaluation category and exhibits leadership on one or more of the issues we evaluate.

Criteria included in this category include but are not limited to goals, policies, practices and outcomes for the following topics:

Product & Packaging Circularity
Climate Protection, Biodiversity Protection
Goals & Metrics
Impact Reduction
High Quality Certifications
Other Topics
Ranking: Top 25%

Company ranks in the top 25% of companies currently rated by Hilde in the

Home Improvement

industry

Ranking: Bottom 25%

Company ranks in the bottom 25% of companies currently rated by Hilde in the

Home Improvement

industry

Hilde Likes

Leadership in producer responsibility

This brand appears to be setting an example in their industry through a dedicated product takeback or recovery program. Bravo!

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Using circular design thinking

We appreciate that this company appears to be integrating more circular approaches to designing and making products and packaging to help reduce environmental impacts

Opportunities for Improvement

Bolder action on climate impacts

We think this company should start measuring and reducing Scope 3 emissions along with publishing a decarbonization transition plan

Category Description

Our ingredient safety evaluation criteria are designed to help us determine how a company measures, manages, and discloses, the use of chemicals of concern that may be present in raw materials, ingredients, manufacturing processes, and finished products.

Foundational Gaps

The company does not meet sufficient baseline criteria for this category and has many opportunities for improvement.

Solid Baseline

The company meets most of our basic criteria and sometimes demonstrates a deeper commitment than other companies on issues in this category.

Strong Performance:

The company appears to be a top performer in this evaluation category and exhibits leadership on one or more of the issues we evaluate.

Foundational Gaps

The company does not meet sufficient baseline criteria for this category and has many opportunities for improvement.

Solid Baseline

The company meets most of our basic criteria and sometimes demonstrates a deeper commitment than other companies on issues in this category.

Strong Performance:

The company appears to be a top performer in this evaluation category and exhibits leadership on one or more of the issues we evaluate.

Criteria included in this category include but are not limited to goals, policies, practices and outcomes for the following topics:

Responsible Sourcing
Living Wages
Paid Maternity Leave
Supply Chain Transparency
High Quality Certifications
Other Topics
Ranking: Top 25%

Company ranks in the top 25% of companies currently rated by Hilde in the

Home Improvement

industry

Ranking: Bottom 25%

Company ranks in the bottom 25% of companies currently rated by Hilde in the

Home Improvement

industry

Hilde Likes

Good focus on people issues

This company appears to have a holistic approach to treating people well including a credible responsible sourcing process to help protect human rights for workers in their supply chain

Opportunities for Improvement
None Identified
Category Description

Our ingredient safety evaluation criteria are designed to help us determine how a company measures, manages, and discloses, the use of chemicals of concern that may be present in raw materials, ingredients, manufacturing processes, and finished products.

Foundational Gaps

The company does not meet sufficient baseline criteria for this category and has many opportunities for improvement.

Solid Baseline

The company meets most of our basic criteria and sometimes demonstrates a deeper commitment than other companies on issues in this category.

Strong Performance:

The company appears to be a top performer in this evaluation category and exhibits leadership on one or more of the issues we evaluate.

Foundational Gaps

The company does not meet sufficient baseline criteria for this category and has many opportunities for improvement.

Solid Baseline

The company meets most of our basic criteria and sometimes demonstrates a deeper commitment than other companies on issues in this category.

Strong Performance:

The company appears to be a top performer in this evaluation category and exhibits leadership on one or more of the issues we evaluate.

Criteria included in this category include but are not limited to goals, policies, practices and outcomes for the following topics:

Mission Integration
Advocacy
Public Reporting & Disclosure
Performance Incentives
Ethical AI
High Quality Certifications
Ranking: Top 25%

Company ranks in the top 25% of companies currently rated by Hilde in the

Home Improvement

industry

Ranking: Bottom 25%

Company ranks in the bottom 25% of companies currently rated by Hilde in the

Home Improvement

industry

Hilde Likes

Public disclosure and reporting

This company provides helpful disclosure on their efforts through annual reporting on sustainability or ESG topics for consumers or other stakeholders

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Opportunities for Improvement

Adopting a context-based approach to sustainability

We think this company is ready to take a leadership position by measuring and managing performance against planetary boundaries and thresholds to assess true operational sustainability

Category Description

Our ingredient safety evaluation criteria are designed to help us determine how a company measures, manages, and discloses, the use of chemicals of concern that may be present in raw materials, ingredients, manufacturing processes, and finished products.

Foundational Gaps

The company does not meet sufficient baseline criteria for this category and has many opportunities for improvement.

Solid Baseline

The company meets most of our basic criteria and sometimes demonstrates a deeper commitment than other companies on issues in this category.

Strong Performance:

The company appears to be a top performer in this evaluation category and exhibits leadership on one or more of the issues we evaluate.

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