Environmental Statement
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Environmental Statement Designflooring and the Environment

Introduction Founded in 2004, Designflooring has grown to be one of the leading vinyl flooring companies in Europe. We are aware that the activities of our company have an impact on the environment and are committed to the continual improvement of our manufacturing and logistical processes to ensure sustainability and best value for our customers and stakeholders alike. This commitment is driven from the top down, with training given to all employees on how they can contribute to the achievement of our environmental objectives. We pride ourselves on environmental awareness in the supply and...

ppiy Our factories are all certified to the ISO 14001 environmental standard which means we are committed to continuous improvement of environmental performance, including systems to control water usage, and product packaging made of 100% recycled material. All of our factories are also certified to ISO 9001 quality standard. The wear layers in our products use high quality 100% virgin PVC and all of our flooring products use recycled PVC as part of the remaining layers. In fact, our products can contain as much as 50% recycled content in the backing layers, derived from post-production...

Safe products Our products are based on vinyl (PVC); the same tried and tested material used in vital medical equipment, from blood bags to dialysis tubing, heart and lung bypass tubing, surgical gloves to pill packets. The same material we put our trust in for pipes, wire and cable protection and window frames. Indeed, it is the most widely used polymer in building and construction. All our products are free from heavy metals and are fully compliant with ‘REACH’ (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals). This is a European Union regulation addressing the...

Designflooring products in use Installation We include the whole life of a floor when thinking about its sustainability performance and that means we make sure our floors start performing from the moment they are fitted. So, we design our products for easy installation to minimise the amount of different materials required to install. Low impact cleaning and maintenance The in-use or service life of the product which we expect, can exceed 30 years and can account for typically 80% of the environmental impact of the product. So, we endeavour to design the most efficient maintenance...

Air Quality All Designflooring products have been tested for contribution to indoor air quality and independent testing proves that our products are very low emitting in terms of VOCs (volatile organic compounds), meeting the strictest standards for air quality. All have been successfully certified to Indoor ‘Air Comfort Gold standard’ which means that they fully comply with the national emission requirements of European countries including: • Germany AgBB/AGB/DGNB • Sweden BVB • Italian Regulation on Green Public Procurement • Blue Angel RAL UZ 120 • Austrian Ecolabel Criteria UZ56 • In...

Proven low environmental im pact Many of our products, including each of our gluedown and Designflooring LooseLay ranges have an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD). An EPD is an independently verified and registered objective report based on a life cycle assessment (LCA) that communicates transparent and comparable information about the life cycle environmental impact of products including: global warming potential; ozone depletion potential, and fossil fuel depletion potential. The Building Research Establishment (BRE) has undertaken its own LCA and our products also have generic...

Designflooring’s recent achievements • We have achieved zero waste to landfill at our Head Office in the UK. • Designflooring is now fully compliant with the latest ISO14001:2015 standard. • All products supplied to Europe are phthalate free except recycled content. • We have introduced regular auditing of our waste processors to ensure strict adherence to latest best practice and recycling legislation. • We have introduced new storage and load carrying features in our sales teams’ cars to reduce load carrying by 62kg per vehicle, leading to improved fuel economy of 2.7% (a saving of 285...

The future Our continued policy of product innovation includes focus on reducing environmental impact and introducing products which are easier to recycle. We aim to develop robust products in order to extend product life cycles and thus further reduce environmental impact We intend to maintain ISO 14001 accreditation. Our aim is to remain a leading supplier of LVT in Europe and to have a market leading environmental record of achievement through the continual development of sustainable products and processes. We will continually review our environmental commitment and comply with...

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