Environment
Danthonia’s commitment to excellence extends to environmental responsibility in our work methods and lifestyle. Our business name 'Danthonia' is a genus of the native grasses that grow in our area of rural Australia. It reflects our respect for the natural environment.
Over the last 5 years Danthonia’s team have participated in the planting of 70,000 new trees on the land surrounding our facilities. These trees will help to re-forest acreage that had been over-cut by previous owners. They will control erosion and create windbreaks and wildlife corridors in the bushland setting where we live and work.
Staff members maintain a 5-acre vegetable garden and keep 150 free-range laying hens. We share the produce among our workers and their families, minimizing the need to truck food from a distance. Most of the Danthonia team live locally and walk to and from their places of work each day. Lifestyle choices like these keep us in touch with the beauty of nature and help to shrink our ecological footprint.
The decision to hand work our dimensional signage means that most value-added operations are accomplished using non-power tools. This saves electricity and minimises factory noise in the neighborhood. For our customers it means that your signs are fashioned with unsurpassed attention to detail.
Danthonia’s HDU sign faces are 16% recycled material coated with water-based paints that are both solvent-free and isocyanate-free. Our paints are normally applied with rollers or brushes to avoid airborne over spray. They require only cold water for wash up. Danthonia has developed wet roller storage techniques that reduce the number of water wash ups by 95%.
The aluminum used in our posts and the EPS used in our monuments are 100% recyclable at the end of their product life cycle.