Silver Best of NeoCon Award, Seating: Ergonomics Desk/Task Chicago, IL, USA June 2005. The Best of NeoCon awards is sponsored by Contract magazine, McMorrow Report.com, Merchandise Mart Properties Inc., IFMA, and IIDA. It is the most prestigious product competition in the commercial interior furniture and furnishings market in the USA.
	Gold IIDEX/NeoCon Canada Product Award, Seating: Desk/ Workstation Chairs, Canada September 2005.. This award is the highest award for office furniture in Canada. The products are evaluated by a panel of judges, selected from a judging committee of 25 members from prestigious design firms and corporations.
	Cradle to CradleTM Gold Certified Product by MBDC (McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry, LLC) October 2005. Zody has been certified as a Cradle to Cradle™ Gold Product by MBDC (McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry, LLC). Zody has been evaluated for its human health, environmental health, lifecycle attributes, renewable energy, water stewardship, and social responsibility characteristics against stringent certification criteria and is considered an ecologically intelligent product.
	American Physical Therapy Association Endorsement (APTA) December 2005. Zody is the first and only chair endorsed by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). This endorsement comes after an APTA review based on criteria such as ergonomic features, proven benefit to the user, product efficacy, and cost-effectiveness. “Zody offers a high level of individual control and is reasonably priced,” said APTA President Ben F Massey, Jr., PT, MA. “We particularly favor the range of adjustment features it offers for users’ comfort.”

Science.  Zody is the only chair to have PAL™, a patent pending user selected asymmetrical lumbar support system and a passive pelvic support.  The back support system was developed with the help of the Human Performance Institute at Western Michigan University.  As a result of this research, Zody earned the first ever task chair endorsement by the American Physical Therapy association. 

Design.  Zody was designed by ITO design in Germany.  The design is crisp and clean.  Haworth only uses premium materials such as cast aluminum and glass reinforced nylon.  Zody is designed with a variety of visual options to create the right chair for your environment.

Sustainability.  Zody is the first task chair certified as a Cradle to Cradle™ Gold product by MBDC (McDonough Braugart Design Chemistry, LLC).  Chair materials, designed to maximize human and ecological health, contain up to 50% recycled content.  Zody assembly energy is offset with green-e certified wind energy certificates.

Back and Lumbar Support. The combination of the frame flex, mesh construction, lumbar pad, lumbar pad spring suspension and asymmetrical adjustment and pelvic support make up the “PAL™” system’s unsurpassed ability to provide comfortable ergonomic support for a broad range of users.

Tension. Zody’s tension adjustment is a crank located halfway back on the right side of the seat pan (Figure 1). Adjusting the tension control regulates the amount of resistance a user feels when leaning back in the chair and the effort required to recline the chair backwards. Forward (clockwise) rotation increases the tension and backward (counterclockwise) rotation decreases the tension. Zody’s tension can be adjusted to accommodate users of different body types and sizes and for different work styles.

Torsional Movement. Zody was designed to have 2" of passive torsional flex in the upper back. This means the backrest follows the user as it moves, increasing mobility and comfort when reaching sideways for objects.