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At Tandus Flooring, we don’t take our accomplishments for granted and stop the development process when one advancement comes to fruition. Tandus Technologies, the research and development center of Tandus Flooring, is always looking for ways to do more with less…or with the less expected.
Tandus Flooring ventured outside our own industry to find valuable alternative waste streams for feed-stock. This search for alternative material streams and collaboration with a leading healthcare provider yielded ethos, a high performance polymer, recycled from disposed windshields and safety glass.
Powerbond ethos Cushion features:
- 36-61% recycled content (SCS-certified) including 18% post consumer recycled content
- NSF 140 Platinum-certified
- 100% recyclable.
ethos modular features:
- 26-50% recycled content (SCS-certified) including a minimum of 10% post consumer content,
- NSF-140 Platinum-certified
- 100% recyclable.
We are the first flooring company to partner with Cargill® to use a bio-based polyol for our ErgoStep product. Developed by Cargill, BiOH™ production uses ingredients from soybean oil. ErgoStep is available as a backing for our award-winning broadloom.
- Backing contains 30% post consumer including 8.6% bio-based content
- 36% less global warming emissions
- Uses 61% less non-renewable energy than traditional polyols
Tandus Technologies, the company’s research and development center, collaborated with NatureWorks LLC, a division of Cargill®, to create Genesis, a sheathcore fiber technology with nylon and a bio-based polymer.
Genesis is made of 15% biopolymer and 85% nylon in either yarn dyed or solution-dyed.
The bio-based polyol is derived 100% from annually renewable plant sugars from non-food stock.
- 86% fewer greenhouse gas emissions; and
- 65% less nonrenewable (petroleum-based) energy than nylon.
The first Genesis products were installed at the Cargill campus and consists of 10,000 yards of a custom Pietra style with ER3® modular carpet.
Modular carpet backing that uses fewer nonrenewable resources and weighs 25% less than standard carpet tile products. Complies with CRI Green Label Plus Standard and is 100% closed-loop recyclable in our existing recycling process.
