RECOFLOOR SCHEME WINS AWARD FOR
EXCELLENCE Recofloor has been recognised for its extensive waste vinyl flooring recycling work with a prestigious award in the
Letsrecycle.com Awards for Excellence in Recycling & Waste Management 2016.
The unique Take Back and Recycling initiative, founded in 2009 by UK flooring manufacturers Altro and Polyflor, impressed the judges for tackling a difficult waste stream with the producers’ involvement to win the Waste Management Initiative in the Commercial and Public Sector category.
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MODULYSS modulyss has launched its new floor design tool, the modulyss designer, which allows interior designers and architects to create unique floor layouts through an easy online tool.
On behalf of the judging panel, the Editor of
Letsrecycle.com, Steve Eminton, said: “The judges were impressed that two companies within the industry had worked together to develop a collection network using reverse logistics. We hope that the scheme will thrive in the future.”
Recofloor engages with all levels of the flooring supply chain, offering cost-effective collections of uplifted vinyl flooring and installation off-cuts to contractors and fitters across the UK and Ireland with significant waste disposal cost savings.
Waste vinyl is diverted from landfill and recycled back into new products, including flooring – around 2,900 tonnes to date.
Recofloor Project Officer, Carla Eslava, was presented with the trophy by Liz Carroll, an Area Business Manager from Egbert Taylor Group and one of the sponsors, at the May presentation ceremony in London.
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Across hundreds of colour, style, pattern and shape options; designers can create floors in-tune with the needs of their interior projects. From simple mono floorscapes to intricate mix and match concepts, the modulyss designer makes it easy to create, adapt and calculate the number of tiles required to for your floor area.
Andrew Sibley, UK Sales Director at modulyss, said: “The challenge when you have an expansive portfolio of modular solutions is making them easily accessible, so we’ve come up with the modulyss designer. This online tool makes it easy to discover just how the diversity of modulyss carpet tiles can impact your space with unique flooring designs.”
Starting from scratch or tweaking a library of inspiring layouts, the tool allows every design element of a floor
Carla commented: “We are absolutely delighted to win this award, which recognises our tremendous achievements in diverting ever-increasing quantities of flooring waste from landfill and putting this material to good new uses.
layout to be adjusted from tile size and laying pattern to the base colour, highlight colours and textures. By changing selected tiles, columns or rows; layouts can be created quickly, saved and exported for presentations.
The randomise function is also a great way to create dynamic layouts with zero fuss, while all designs can be viewed in realistic 3D room scenarios. Once your design has been finalised, the tile calculator tells exactly how many of each product used you will need for your room size. What’s more, the modulyss designer slots straight into workflows, exported designs compatible with common design software such as Autocad.
Andrew continued: “We are hugely excited about the modulyss designer and its potential for interior designers working on all manner of projects. From the obvious corporate offices to leisure, hospitality and education, the scope is huge and the technology really allows designers to explore our portfolio. The tool is sure to lead to the discovery of fresh new products and some really interesting and intriguing floor layouts.”
www.designer.modulyss.com
She added: “Recofloor’s success has been very much a team effort with support from Polyflor and Altro, and of course, involving the entire flooring sector supply chain.”
www.recofloor.org www.tomorrowscontractfloors.com
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