Karndean Designflooring ensures that its products meet the recognised standards for sustainable design. Trust us to make flooring simpler by meeting the required environmental criteria.
For your next project, you might be thinking about Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), and Low Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). Our approach is based on the use of recycled materials, working with bodies such as UPEC, the Green Building Council (GBC) and the United States Green Building Council (USGBC).
Shared commitment to the environment
As a global flooring supplier, we’re committed to continually improving manufacturing and logistics to ensure sustainability and best value for customers and stakeholders. Reducing environmental impact underlies everything we do. It is the philosophy and values that make us a socially responsible supplier. Environmental awareness is designed into our manufacturing, distribution and product aftercare.
Designing for our shared environment
Just as you design spaces with forethought, we’ve always strived to make simply beautiful floors with the lowest possible environmental impact. As a result, and while always complying with environmental legislation, we’ve never had to compromise on product quality and performance to meet any environmental requirements.
40 Sustainable materials and processes
Some Karndean Designflooring products contain more than 50 per cent recycled content and we strive to do even better. The manufacture of the polymers we use requires much less energy than many other materials. We use recycled packaging and our factory waste is recycled at source in a closed-loop process.
A generic BRE Green Guide ‘A/A+’ rating and 100 per cent biodegradable floor care products are just two indicators of our commitment to more environmentally-aware indoor spaces. Our products are manufactured to the ISO 14001 environmental standard. Our policy toward all suppliers of accessory products is to help them achieve ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.
Our adhesives are water-based and free from harmful emissions. Every product also carries low-VOC certification from the US Greenguard Environmental Institute and meets their Product Emission Standard for Children & Schools.
Logistics, storage and supply
We use carefully planned logistics and high-density storage that maximises capacity and minimises environmental impact. We aim to maintain a record of market-leading environmental achievements through the development of sustainable products and processes.