Dallas, TX – February 20, 2025 – Daltile is pleased to share the news that its recently-launched Panoramic Elestial collection has been selected by a panel of industry experts as a Best of KBIS Awards Finalist in the “Sustainable Standout” category. The ultimate winner in this category will be announced by the judges at next week’s Kitchen & Bath Industry Show (KBIS) 2025. The KBIS website recognizes the “Sustainable Standout” as being a product that is the most eco-friendly and focused on carbon neutral manufacturing in the kitchen and bath industry. Daltile will be prominently showcasing Elestial at KBIS in Booth #N2039. Daltile is the nation’s largest manufacturer and marketer of tile, stone, and countertop products for both residential and commercial use.

“We are proud that Elestial has been selected as a KBIS Finalist in the Sustainable Standout category, reflecting well on Daltile’s ‘Our Promise’ sustainability initiative. Elestial joins a fleet of existing Panoramic products that provide ‘the visuals and style of natural stone slabs with the performance of porcelain tile’,” said Roy Viana, director of natural stone and slab, Dal-Tile LLC. “Daltile strives to continuously create beautiful tile and porcelain slab designs responsibly. Under the Daltile ‘Our Promise’ sustainability platform, we are focused on creating a more Climate Positive present and future by being dedicated stewards of our global impact, and leveraging our resources to shrink our footprint and reduce our waste. We keenly focus on this effort 365 days a year via a myriad of environmental sustainability efforts, such as the following inherent in Elestial:

• 0% — Elestial porcelain slabs are made from natural materials: water, clay, sand, feldspar, and other natural minerals. These slabs contain zero VOCs, zero PVCs, zero allergens, and zero formaldehyde.

• 99% — Over 99% of our porcelain slabs including Elestial contain recycled or reclaimed materials.

• 84% — Overall, we recover and reuse between 84% to 100% of all process wastewater generated in our manufacturing plants to make our porcelain slabs.

• With natural stones/marbles quarried from the earth, there is a finite supply of them. For example, once all of the rare Silver Root Marble has been quarried from the Turkish landscape, that natural stone/marble is gone. With our Elestial porcelain slabs, there is no limit to the supply we can create, and we do not exhaust any materials from nature.

• When installed as flooring, our porcelain slabs (as well as our porcelain tiles) have the lowest carbon footprint of any installed flooring for the life of the product – This is out of all flooring categories.

Daltile's Panoramic Elestial
“Panoramic’s Elestial is a great solution for designs that require a high-end look while also including natural materials and eco-friendly processes,” added Viana. “Elestial easily brings the scale and style of natural stone slabs to projects where stone might be cost or installation prohibitive. Thanks to Daltile’s proprietary printing technologies, designs are so realistic that it’s hard to tell the difference between Panoramic and natural stone. Because Panoramic is made of authentic porcelain, Elestial is heat, stain, scratch, and chemical resistant as well as durable and easy to maintain.

“A true design element for any space, Panoramic’s Elestial porcelain slabs flawlessly replicate one of nature’s most rare stones, Silver Root Marble, quarried from the Turkish landscape. Offering a warm, silver-grey backdrop accented with gold and dark charcoal veining, Elestial brings luxury and soothing elegance to any bathroom, kitchen, or outdoor kitchen. This 64”x127” ultra large slab provides the artistry of a natural marble with the durability, cleanability, and affordability of porcelain. Elestial can be used on a multitude of surfaces including dry interior floors, walls, countertops, fireplaces, vanities, backsplashes, shower walls, tub surrounds, pool linings, and even as exterior cladding,” concluded Viana.

About Daltile
Daltile is the industry-leading brand of ceramic, porcelain, glass, metal, and stone tile as well as mosaics, extra-large slabs, countertops, exteriors, and roofing tile. Daltile products are distributed through over 250 company-owned sales service centers, stone slab yards, and gallery design centers that service a robust network of trade customers. Daltile products are also sold through independent flooring retailers. Dedicated to innovative product development and distinguished style, Daltile provides a rich palette of quality products created to inspire residential and commercial designs. For more information, visit daltile.com and follow Daltile on Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Facebook, X, and YouTube.