Keilhauer Ltd.

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1450 Birchmount Rd
Scarborough, ON M1P 2E3
Founded in 1981, Keilhauer Ltd. is a custom furniture manufacturer.

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Keilhauer Ltd.
A Keilhauer employee sews a seating cover  

Recognized as one of Canada's Greenest Employers (2025):

By Richard Yerema and Chantel Watkins, and Sonja Verpoort, Mediacorp Canada Inc. staff editors (Apr 21, 2025)

Here are some of the reasons why Keilhauer Ltd. was selected as one of Canada's Greenest Employers (2025):

  • Keilhauer's Take-Back program allows customers to return select furniture items for disassembly and recycling, supported by online resources that guide proper disposal -- the company also introduced "Swurve," their first carbon-neutral chair, by tracking reduced emissions throughout production and offsetting the remainder with carbon credits
  • Keilhauer recently launched a new website featuring sustainability scorecards for all its products, outlining environmental attributes, such as certifications, recycled content, end-of-life options, use of renewable energy in production and packaging, and applicability to LEED and WELL building standards
  • Keilhauer offers a comprehensive waste program that goes beyond standard diversion practices, even encouraging employees to bring in items from home to prevent them from ending up in landfill -- the program covers a wide range of materials, including food waste, cardboard, mixed plastics, light bulbs, batteries, office supplies, wood and wood skid, metals, printer and toner cartridges, PPE, candy wrappers, e-waste, leather, and textiles
A Keilhauer team member constructs a Plunk ottoman  

    Highlights

    Industry Furniture manufacturing
    Major Canadian locations Scarborough ON, Toronto ON
    Full-time employees in Canada 230
    Employee green team Design for the Environment
    Senior executive who oversees initiatives Sustainability Officer
    Formal strategy/policy name Planet Keilhauer (sustainability program to create a company that is "environmentally benign, socially progressive and economically successful")
    Publishes sustainability report yes
    Green highlights all programs follow the company's "Big-Time Corporate Goal" of closed-loop manufacturing, ongoing programs to track resource and energy use including water, air (addressing greenhouse gas emissions and indoor air quality), energy, and waste management; Design for Environment program (in-house sustainable initiative to continually evaluate the environmental impacts of its products), Take-Back program for its Tom chairs (customers can return used chairs for proper disassembly and recycling), created online documents to help customers disassemble and properly recycle their used furniture, supplier assessment program to ensure alignment of labour and sustainable business values
    Noteworthy initiatives created first carbon-neutral chair (called "Swurve"), tracking reduced emissions at all stages of production and offsetting with carbon credits as required, eliminated single-use packaging for all outbound shipments in favour of blanket-wrapped shipments
    Building footprint includes carbon offset program (offsetting 100% of energy usage with renewable energy credit purchases of certified wind power), LED lighting retrofits
    Extended recycling fabric and leather scraps (over 60,000 lbs last year), organics, light bulbs, batteries, writing utensils, candy wrappers, wood, e-waste, printer and toner cartridges (encourages employees to bring items from home as it pursues its goal of sending zero waste to landfill with non-recyclable waste sent to a facility where its converted to energy), plastics baler machine to compress plastic films more efficiently, PragmaTech Ltd. (annual waste audits to help inform its annual waste reduction plan)
    Commuter amenities walk to public transit
    Community partnerships Forest Stewardship Council (carries a range of certified wood products), partnership with Toronto-based Emerald Energy to convert waste to energy, donates leather hides to Pass the Feather (also known as the Indigenous Art Collective of Canada)

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    Keilhauer Ltd. has been selected for The Career Directory, our guide to entry-level recruitment for recent college and university graduates.
    Two Keilhauer engineers work on a new chair design

      Highlights for New Grads

      Industry Furniture manufacturing
      Full-time employees in Canada 101 to 250
      Major Canadian locations Scarborough ON, Toronto ON
      Student opportunities summer jobs
      Training subsidies for professional accreditation, orientation program, online training, in-house training, mentoring, leadership training
      Tuition subsidies (related to job) yes
      Typical new grad positions Purchasing Co-op Student, Industrial Engineer Intern, Sustainability Assistant, Customer Service Coordinator, Communications Coordinator
      Starting salary $35K to $40K
      Work benefits health benefits for new employees, telecommuting
      Vacation allowance new employees receive 2 weeks of paid vacation after their first year on the job

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