GOLDEN Seconds Program

GOLDEN has an overall "green" attitude; everything that we are striving for as far as our formulations are concerned is geared toward environmental friendliness. This includes the ingredients that go in our paints, the wastewater we generate making our paints as well as cleaning out equipment, and any waste we may generate in between or after that process goes to good use in our Seconds Program. The Seconds Program is a way for GOLDEN to support artists and keep product out of the waste stream. Employees, along with local and artist communities, are offered products from the "Seconds Program." The Seconds Program offers paint that does not meet GOLDEN standards at little or no cost to artists or non-profit organizations that can greatly benefit from the program.

Below is a list of ways in which GOLDEN inevitably generates "Seconds" through various manufacturing processes:

Production:

• The generation of product with chunks
• Possible cross contamination in product-to-product change over
  
• Dust or other foreign materials become introduced in the process

Lab:

• R&D projects that don't perform as they were expected to
  
• Experiments that just don't work
  
• Projects that are tested and terminated
  
• Compilations
  

Marketing:

• Partial jars from hand-painting color charts, banners, shirts, etc.
  
• Contamination
  

Filling:

• Cross contamination from filling one product to another
  
• Wrong label
  
• Damage to container
  

Shipping:

• Damaged product
  
• Returned product

If you are interested in the Seconds Program and think that you or your organization may qualify, please fill out the Seconds Request Form and you will be contacted by our Corporate Communications Specialist Jodi O'Dell.