DOMOTEX ECO-FLOORING FOR THE FIRST TIME, SYNTHETIC FLOORING CAN


BE PRODUCED WITH CARBON DIOXIDE WHICH MEANS


LESS CRUDE OIL IS NEEDED AS A RAW MATERIAL


Company statement | Covestro


public for vinyl – are featuring more and more in modern designs thanks to the ever-increasing awareness of ecological issues. Belgium’s Balta home, a global market leader in machine-woven carpets took its RE_GENERATION collection of carpets made from recycled materials to the last DOMOTEX, demonstrating a strong focus on sustainability and a deep understanding of the market by turning what it described as trash into treasure, upcycling old plastic bottles, discarded bits of cotton and pieces of leather from old clothing. This was a similar theme adopted by São Paulo-based interior designer Jalil Amor when working on the interior of the Mama Shelter Hotel in Belgrade. The floor coverings Amor designed to evoke the Serbian capital’s city’s rich Ottoman Empire legacy were actually made from old fabric carry bags hand-woven by Ghashghaei and Luri nomads using kilim, soumak and ziggurat techniques.


TRIO PROVIDES THREE SOLUTIONS IN ONE Vielaris Art Parquet of Lithuania remodelled the offices of a real estate investment firm in Paris by installing a floor using “Trio”, a system of parquet panels made of beech laminated with an upper layer of oak - a sustainable floor covering system in which geometric triangle, diamond and trapezium elements are laid to form an elegant and highly expressive pattern. A growing commitment to sustainability led German brand ZIRO to increase in the proportion of cork-based floor coverings in its range. These included Korkplus, which the manufacturer describes as the ideal floor to walk on in bare feet. Building design and construction companies are increasingly being


asked to include information in their decision-making processes that take into consideration potential environmental impacts. Interested parties expect unbiased product information consistent with current best practices and based on objective scientific analysis, which means that purchasing decisions may require the provision of environmental


FACT Glass has an average recycling rate of


up to 80 per cent. By comparison, paper recycling rates are close to 65%


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information such as Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs). Dasso group, a global innovator and advocate of bamboo products, insists that the existence of an EPD report helps support their drive to increase the use of bamboo material in construction, something it has done successfully, given the fact that it has installed more than 10,000,000m2 of it around the world. Installations include places such as Madrid Airport and Wuxi Grand Theater on the banks of China’s Taihu Lake. The use of CO2 as a new raw


material is a promising approach for producing plastics, according to Covestro, the Leverkusen-based producer of


polyurethane and


polycarbonate based raw materials. One of them, cardyon, which is used to produce soft polyurethane foam for mattresses and upholstered furniture,


recently went in a new


direction when it was used as a subfloor to a 99 x 59 metres playing field, cushioning the effect of a new, bright blue artificial turf. The company insists that cardyon is providing the industry with a more sustainable solution by using carbon dioxide, an industrial waste gas, as a new and useful example of raw material feedstock. “We are also broadening our


raw material base beyond fossil hydrocarbons and bio-based raw materials by bringing CO2 back into the value chain and helping to close the carbon loop. It is our vision to drive a new perspective within the industry and beyond on


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