Supporting Sustainable Solutions With Floorworx

Any time we glance at the media we become highly sensitised to concepts including Climate change; Carbon emission; Marine life depletion. We are being told daily that humans impact the environment in several ways, from reducing our water quality, increasing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, to depleting our natural resources and contributing to global climate change.

Many a documentary is now available discussing this massive impact we as humans are having on the environment around us. All begging for solutions to halt this negative state of affairs and return our beautiful home to a balanced, healthy Earth.

I am sure with that in mind we all have spent time wondering how we in our own small way can make a difference. As the money machine still holds its domination over society, organisations are also increasingly coming under pressure to make a change. From the obvious recent replacement of straws; to the reduction of usage of plastic in the kitchen and the grocery store. But there is more still that we can do. And it can start right at the very foundation of your organisation or leisure space… Your floor.

FloorworX stands fully behind supporting sustainable solutions for enhancing the environment and reducing impact. That is why they stock a remarkable range of flooring manufactured by Forbo, called the Flotex range.

Here we highlight just how significantly this range can support these endeavors to saving our planet.

Flotex is a unique textile floor covering that combines the hard wearing and durable characteristics of a resilient floor with the quality, warmth and comfort of a carpet. Flotex is a strong and hygienic floor, and being completely waterproof, it is also the only truly washable textile floor.

But Flotex boasts a range of other significant features too. These include:

– Forbo’s manufacturing operations produce a flooring solution with green electricity and minimum waste streams that are all recycled in the floor.

– Flotex is created with nylon fibre, and all dies and inks that are used to create the designs are water based. No additional chemical processes take place other than high temperature steam treatment to secure the colours.

– Flotex makes use of waste streams of other Forbo production locations to be transformed into the backing of the floor coverings. Recycled content in Flotex is up to 67% of the backing content.

– A big advantage for using Flotex is the extreme performance of the floor covering, with a product life-time that surpasses that of ordinary textiles by a factor 6.

– Flotex can be cleaned by using water and a simple detergent. For most staining, simple household soap is enough to clean the product, while other detergent clean away ink, oil and more severe stains. After use Flotex can be recycled back into the production process.

– Flotex is the only textile accredited with the British allergy seal of approval, low Volatile Organic Compound emissions and long Life Cycle Assessment.

It makes sense then with the pressure of the world to bring about change that we promote the use of this amazing product range. And we encourage you to do the same. For a range of applications, and a price to suite any budget, Flotex should be your first consideration when looking at going green.

Let’s do more, together.

For more information on this exciting range visit www.floorworx.co.za.