Eco Friendly Flooring - Amtico Flooring
Environmently Conscious Flooring Solutions
Eco friendly Amtico floors are an excellent sustainable flooring choice. If you are looking for green floors consider Amtico green flooring.Amtico is environmentally friendly flooring.
Earth-Friendly Amtico Flooring has been a champion of green practices since 1993, when its tile facility in England became the first in the world to meet ISO 14001 standards. The firm’s plant in Madison, Georgia, which opened in 2002, also has the ISO 14001 seal of approval.
Amtico Flooring is a member of RFCI, a supporter of the FloorScore program for indoor air quality, and in October 2007, the Greenguard Environmental Institute awarded Amtico Flooring with the Environmental Institute Certificate for low emitting products and materials.
In Madison, 40% of the firm’s product is recycled material, and energy & water usage have declined by 2% per year. To contain solvent fumes, spraying is done in an enclosed chamber modeled after an auto industry spray paint booth. Amtico Flooring reuses all pallets and drums in its supply chain. It also sells and recommends only eco-friendly adhesives.
Amtico Vinyl Flooring is FloorScore Certified
Indoor air quality is an important issue because most people spend as much as 90% of their time indoors at home, work, or school.
Poor indoor air quality can be caused by a number of factors, including inadequate ventilation, poor cleaning, and excessive emissions of volatile organic compounds.
The FloorScore program, developed by the Resilient Floor Covering Institute (RFCI) in conjunction with Scientific Certification Systems (SCS), tests and certifies flooring products for compliance with indoor air quality emission requirements adopted in California. Flooring products include vinyl, linoleum, non-PVC resilient flooring, laminate flooring, wood flooring, ceramic flooring, rubber flooring, wall base, and associated sundries.
A flooring product bearing the FloorScore seal has been independently certified by SCS to comply with the volatile organic compound emissions criteria of the California Section 01350 program.
These flooring products qualify for use in high performance schools and office buildings in California. Thus, products with the FloorScore seal have passed a third party certification process and are recognized as contributing to good indoor air quality in order to protect human health.
FloorScore The New Certification Program for Indoor Air Quality.
It’s not an issue of simply measuring total VOCs in the air you’re breathing. What matters is the nature of particular VOCs that may be in the air.
The FloorScore is a voluntary program that complies with the IAQ performance requirements for low emitting building materials as independently established by SCS-EC-10-2004, which includes compliance with the California Section 01350 requirements for listed VOCs in schools and state office buildings.
