Company Background

As one of the world’s leading manufacturers of communications cable, Superior Essex products serve as the backbone of numerous systems that enable our connected world. And for the 90 years that we have been in business, we have witnessed – and created – a massive evolution in the communications technologies we support, as well as their impact on the environment.

Our cable empowers the next generation of communications to be more adaptable, more efficient and more sustainable than ever before – because we believe that the technology that interconnects the world should also respect it.

Superior Essex is the first communications cable manufacturer with certified Red List Free products and we have maintained our Zero Waste to Landfill certification for six years (and counting). Superior Essex is the only GreenCircle Certified client that has achieved this feat.

Why We Chose GreenCircle

“Recognizing that our products have global effects, we began our sustainability program back in 2008 at our manufacturing facility in Hoisington, Kansas. It was then and there that plant personnel watched the waste being sent to landfill and truly considered the negative side effects it could have on our environment. To repair this, our teams then set out on what became a six-year journey of working diligently and tirelessly to achieve the rare feat of earning third-party certification as a Zero Waste to Landfill facility in 2014 – and then maintained it for six years straight and counting.

We searched and analyzed numerous different companies to certify these claims. GreenCircle became a front runner quickly as we believe their zero waste to landfill standard certifies what is truly zero waste (not just 90%). GreenCircle has been a certifier of Superior Essex since 2014, and we look forward to continuing and expanding our efforts with their organization into the future.

From their inspiring leadership, our entire company has since shifted focus to design and manufacture the most sustainable communications cable products available in the marketplace. We now proudly feature Environmental Product Declarations, Health Product Declarations, Declare Labels, Living Product Challenge certifications (in which GreenCircle is our auditor) , and products with the lowest Embodied Carbon on the market. And as a result of our collective efforts, we have attained a gold level rating in our sustainability assessment by the Telecommunications Industry Association, the highest level a company can achieve. We’ve only just begun our journey, but are thankful for companies like GreenCircle who have verified our successes now and into the future.“

— Annie Bevan, Global Head of Sustainability