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The necessity of running the businessecologically, with the instruments andmeasures available, are communicated internally and externally by integratedWilkhahn Management, ranging from the publication of the “Leitfaden für Öko-controlling in der mittelständischen Industrie” (“Guidelines to eco-control- ling in medium-sized furniture manu- facturing companies”, published by IÖW, 1993), from various lectures for visitors to Wilkhahn, for schoolchildren and students to lectures at congresses and symposia, or lectures at universities and other socially relevant institutions and groups. The EXPO 2000 exhibition “The future of work in the field between humankind, nature, technology and themarket - Wilkhahn’s experience”, with more than 7,000 visitors, marked thehighlight of public interest in the inte-gration of economic, ecological andsocial responsibility into corporate pro-cesses. In addition, Wilkhahn also made a contribution to the worldwide EXPO “Resource Management Project” in Wolfsburg, Germany, and designed the special section of “Sustainability” for the exhibition “The Century of Design”which was shown in Karlsruhe, Hanoverand Hamm. A sustainability report was published for the first time, entitled “Wilkhahn Added Values”.

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