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Brad Van Valkenburg

Senior Sustainability Engineer, Global Product Innovation, MillerKnoll

Bradley Van Valkenburg is a Senior Sustainability Engineer on MillerKnoll’s Design for Environment team, focusing on quantifying and optimizing the environmental and human health impacts of MIllerKnoll’s products. With extensive chemistry and engineering background, he collaborates with organizations internal and external stakeholders to collect and assess product data regarding chemical exposure and hazards throughout the supply chain. He is an active member of BIFMA’s (Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association) Chemical and Environmental Impacts/LCA Committees and contributed in the development of BIFMA’s new e3 Sustainability Standard. Brad holds a Master of Chemical Engineering from Oregon State University where he focused on Utilizing Computation Methods to Model Physical Systems. Brad’s extensive modelling experience led him to publish: LCAs, “Modelling Nutrient Uptake and Growth of Algae Farms Off the San Pedro Shelf” and “Modelling Heterogeneous Catalyst Reactions in Microreactors”.

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Webinar: Insights from the 7th Chemical Footprint Project Report

April 11, 2025

The Chemical Footprint Project gives companies across all industries tools to evaluate their progress in reducing Chemicals of High Concern and proactively identify opportunities for further action,

- Joyce Taylor

CFP greatly simplifies the complex issue of chemicals management. We now have a tool that is available for plugging into purchasing decisions.

- Monica Nakielski

Hazardous chemicals “present reputational, regulatory, and reformulation risks across a broad range of industry sectors. Investors need to understand how companies are meaningfully managing these risks.

- Susan Baker

CFP is a market differentiator and provides a competitive advantage for business leaders. This new tool will add a level of transparency and help companies mitigate reputational and regulatory risks and exploit opportunities afforded by moving to safer chemicals.

- Roger McFadden

The Investor Environmental Health Network welcomes the launch of the Chemical Footprint Project. For too long chemicals and health have been missing pieces in Environmental Social Governance (ESG) assessments. Now we have a tool that investors can use to fill in this critical information.

- Richard Liroff

Participating in the Chemical Footprint Project pilot led us to develop a formal chemical policy that will be included on our website. Our chemicals policy and its successful implementation is the very heart of our company philosophy.