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New Jersey-based DriTac Flooring Products offers a wide variety of adhesive products that can contribute to LEED credits. The company states that all of its wood flooring adhesives meet the requirements of the SCAQMD rule #1168 and contain less than 100 VOC grams per liter. DriTac...
Crossville has added new colors and sizes to its line of Empire porcelain tile that features 20 percent recycled content. The tile is made to look like marbleized stone, and now comes in three new colors: Cadet White; Marquis Greige; and Midnight Blue (pictured here). The...
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By Heather Stegner, Senior Director, Communications, American Wood Council More and more people – from builders to homeowners – are interested in using green materials to reduce the carbon footprint of the built environment. The Reuse Wood Directory at www.reusewood.org aims to make it easy to...
Iris Industries offers three types of surfacing materials made from reclaimed and recycled ingredients: Textiles, Paper Fiber and Slate-ish. Textile recycling provides a huge amount of post-industrial and post-consumer scrap material. Denimite (pictured here) is from blue jeans, and Marblus, which has an appearance similar to...
Canadian flooring manufacturer Lauzon offers its Pure Genius line of hardwood flooring that not only does not contribute to indoor air quality degredation, but according to the company, actually helps purify the air. As with all of the company’s flooring products, it is manufactured without solvents...
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GreenSurfacingResource.com is currently developing a newsletter for those interested in the industry. The newsletter is slated to be quarterly, with a fifth “Best of” special edition in it’s first year, will be called The Green Surfacing Insider. The frequency will then increase based on demand and...
Trinity Glass Products are designed and manufactured by Tiger Mountain Innovations in Seattle and offer a sustainable alternative to natural stone. These individually handcrafted composite slabs are composed of recycled glass and low-carbon cement and can be fabricated for countertops, tabletops, wall cladding and exterior surfaces....
Gluewarehouse.com, an online source for professional adhesives, earned GREENGUARD Gold Certification and released an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for its countertop and surfacing adhesives. UL Environment’s EPD provides purchasers with comprehensive information on a product’s environmental impact including carbon footprint, impact on acidification, eutrophication, depletion of...
GreenField Recycled Glass Stone Products LLC, located in Dubuque, Iowa, offers a self-named, ecofriendly surfacing material made with 100 percent recycled glass combined in a proprietary cementitious mix. The company claims the final product “is more durable than quartz and offers more color combinations than granite.”...
Glass Recycled Surfaces, based in the Dallas, Texas, area, manufactures a unique countertop product comprised of recycled glass and porcelain that is branded as GlassSLAB. The slabs are 80 percent recycled glass and porcelain aggregates and 20 percent VOC-free epoxy resin, and the company claims that...
ELEEK Inc. has been manufacturing cast-metal tiles and sinks made from recycled aluminum and bronze since 2000. The aluminum tiles are 100 percent recycled and include a minimum of 70 percent post-consumer content while the bronze tiles are at least 90 percent recycled with half of...
EnviroGLAS Terrazzo is recycled-glass surface manufactured by EnviroGLAS Products, Inc. It is a thin-set epoxy terrazzo that is made with a two-component epoxy resin that is color pigmented and free of VOCs. The aggregate contained in this surfacing is 100 percent post-industrial recycled glass and is...
Terrazzo & Marble Supply (T&M), a member of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), offers Rinato Terrazzo countertops made of cementitious recycled glass-based material. Glass that was once destined to be buried in landfills has been recovered and reused as a raw material in the crafting...
Kliptech manufactures and distributes two types of sustainable surfacing: EcoTop® and RecycleTop®. Both materials were designed to promote sustainability without having to compromise style or quality and are in line with the company’s mission to develop, design and manufacture durable, cost-effective, user-friendly and environmentally friendly products....
Cali Bamboo’s GreenClaimed® brand offer a product line of designer cork wall tiles. Cork is considered to be one of the most renewable and sustainable materials available because of the manner in which the material is harvested. GreenClaimed cork wall tiles are made from recycled cork...
While many other recycled-glass surfacing uses cement as a binder, Curava Recycled Glass Surface has a resin binder developed for strength, hygiene and stain resistance without the need for sealer or wax, reports the manufacturer. The amount of recycled glass used in making Curava is equivalent...
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