FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:?Dec. 13, 2023
Contact:?Emilio Machado, DNR Business Support Coordinator
[email protected] or 608-516-8626

Badger Corrugating Company Joins DNR's
Green Tier Program

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Badger Corrugating Company joins Green Tier, strengthening its commitment to sustainability. / Photo Credit: Jake Highum, Badger

MADISON, Wis.???The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced that Badger Corrugating Company (Badger) has joined the state's Green Tier program as a Tier 1 participant. Badger's Tier 1 status affirms its?commitment to sustainability and desire to develop plans for continuous environmental improvement.

Green Tier is a voluntary program for businesses, local governments and organizations already on the path to sustainability and want support achieving even more. Tier 1 of the program encourages, recognizes and rewards companies committed to superior environmental performance. ?

As part of its Tier 1 commitment, Badger will develop and implement an environmental management system to improve its overall environmental impacts in the coming year.

?The department is excited to begin this partnership with Badger,? said Dan Baumann, DNR Secretary?s Director for West-Central Wisconsin. ?Badger is demonstrating their leadership and commitment to doing the right thing for our environment by embarking on this journey with Green Tier. The department looks forward to working with them as they leverage their environmental management system's economic and environmental benefits to improve their footprint.?

Badger is a family and employee-owned company in its fifth generation of ownership. The company started as a fabricator of metal building products such as ventilators, stock tanks and products for the heating and metal building trades.

Over the past 120 years, Badger has evolved into a full-line distributor of interior and exterior millwork, cabinets and building products for residential and commercial projects. The company is committed to continuous improvement and seeks to reduce waste generation and transition to more sustainable manufacturing practices, like using water-based products instead of solvents in its operations.

?Badger is committed to improving our environmental performance. We are excited to partner with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and participate in the Green Tier program to increase our efficiency, give more visibility to our efforts and strategically choose our next goals to make our business more sustainable and resilient," said Jake Highum, Quality Specialist at Badger.

More information about Green Tier and Badger Corrugating Company's participation is available online.