Producing environmentally responsible resilient flooring presents significant challenges. Creating green resilient flooring that meets the standards of the world’s most discerning architects and designers is an even tougher challenge. LG Floors has met those challenges with state-of-the-art technology and innovative programs that take the industry to the next level.
Currently, many manufacturers reuse their own scrap in creating their products. According to ISO standards in the LEED rating system, this doesn’t even qualify as post-industrial content. In addition, a true source of recycled post-consumer material has never been easy to find. Manufacturers have also struggled with the fact that resilient floors are limited in their recyclability and reuse. When a resilient floor is glued down to a substrate, the glue cannot be removed afterward, making the flooring unusable in its afterlife.
LG Floors, however, has discovered several ways to not only incorporate true pre-consumer (a.k.a. post-industrial) content into its product but—for the first time in the industry—LG is able to incorporate its own post-consumer recycled content into resilient floor covering.
Through a new program, LG Floors is domestically reclaiming its own product (as well as the competition’s material) from individual households and end users and reusing it to make floors again. This is the closest any resilient flooring manufacturer has come to producing material in a closed-loop manufacturing process.
As part of the LG Group—with 38 companies and 160,000 employees around the world—LG Floors is committed to the company’s environmental policy of greenhouse gas reduction, energy conservation, more stringent control of chemical materials and the development of eco-friendly products. LG Floors honors that commitment with a great styled line of resilient flooring that is capable of withstanding the test of time thanks to its built-in low maintenance and superior performance—to meet the needs of today’s eco- conscious designer, architect, specifier or builder.
