Information on green, recycled, eco-friendly and sustainable surfaces
Laser Products Industries (LPI) announced a new milestone for its customers and the environment. LT-2D3D and LT-55 XL Laser Templator users, are now saving more than 55,000 trees per year with the use of paperless processes. The company states that the laser templators allow fabricators to...
Wilsonart, a manufacturer of decorative engineered surfaces, traveled from coast to coast gathering inspiration for its newest collection. From the pine fields in Pennsylvania to whiskey barrels in Kentucky and the discovery of the modern marquetry movement in California, each design in the collection reflects today’s...
Eco Crush, LLC is a manufacturer and fabricator of sustainable engineered stone located in Bend, Ore. The slabs are both durable and attractive while containing high levels post-consumer recycled content. The company’s proprietary manufacturing process and unique aggregate blend creates a natural-looking slab that can be...
The leadership of Trend Group moved early and aggressively to reduce the ecological impact of its processes and products. Products are designed specifically to consume fewer raw materials and to have extended durability. Trend’s innovative engineered surfaces require 60 percent less raw material and incorporate both...
Sustainable home design is one of the hottest trends and more people are waking up to the fact that our trees and forests are in danger, and everyone should do their part to help battle deforestation. One way you can save an extra tree from being...
JM Lifestyles introduced a unique new product called Woodform Concrete. WoodForm Concrete is a lightweight engineered composite that looks like wood and acts like stone. According to the company, it will not split, crack, splinter, stain or rot. Multiple color choices, edge details and accessories are...
3form introduced a surfacing material made entirely from recycled High Density Polyethylene (HDPE). The product, named 100 Percent, is recycled into sheets from 100 percent post-consumer packaging and transformed into a high design surfacing material. Designers have the option to make a sustainable move and incorporate...
The concept for StoneCycling started with Tom van Soest at the Design Academy in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. During his studies he focused on using the full potential of waste to create new building materials. Using the waste materials as a starting point, he started to grind,...
EQcountertops by VT Industries are GREENGUARD Indoor Air Quality Certified and are also the first and only GREENGUARD Children & SchoolsSM Certified laminate countertops available, meeting the most stringent emission standards. EQcountertops assist in achieving Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification. For both commercial...
Made from more than 90 percent recycled metal, Metal in Counters countertop product offers a highly sustainable design. In addition to its recycled content, the product can be finished many times over and can be totally recycled into reusable metal. According to the company, one major...
Kirei offers EchoPanel Geometry Tiles in five shapes: Oblong, Square, Delta, Hex and Penta. The tiles are available in the 20 standard EchoPanel colors, allowing for unlimited and unique design applications. According to the company the peel-and-stick application makes installation of these designer acoustic tiles fast and...
Formica Corporation released its 2017 Specialty Collection that features dECOLeather, a recycled leather veneer. dECOLeather is manufactured from 100 percent pulverized leather fibers extracted from car seats and leather tanneries. dECOLeather thickness is comparable to veneer and laminate at 0.8 mm or 1/32 in. Bringing sustainable...
Oceanside Glasstile began with a love for art glass, the environment and the community. Oceanside Glasstile was founded in 1992 with a boundless spirit of innovation, fervor for the art of glass blowing and a new vision for the tile industry—creating luxury glass tile using recycled...
It can be a challenge to find products that have a minimal impact on human health and the environment. According to the International Living Future Institute (ILFI), the key reason for this issue is it was difficult to facilitate healthy conversations between manufacturers and architects. For...
Hempcrete is a bio-composite material. It is a combination of hemp hurds mixed with a lime binder that can be used as a material for construction and insulation. Hempcrete is reportedly one of the best performing, non-toxic, ecological and renewable materials available and it has a negative...
HanStone Quartz by Hanwha Surfaces created four colors of quartz surfacing that are SCS-certified to have a minimum of 24 percent pre-consumer recycled mirror content by weight. The colors with recycled content in the HanStone Quartz Classics Series are Mystic Blue, Obsidian Black, Passion Rouge and...
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