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New at IIDEX
Permian™
Luxury looks for workplace environments are still very much the trend, and InterfaceFLOR is responding with flooring that becomes the anchor for creating a posher, more opulent décor. Permian™ stands out among the newcomers. It has all the familiar qualities of a luxurious fabric, a full soft finish and a luminosity that resonates with richness. The design’s restrained geometry is achieved by brief, nuanced shifts in texture. Permian is available in 16 colour options drawn from a reserved and neutral palette. It’s a style that composes into a variety of configurations ideal for corporate office, boardroom, reception area, retail, or other commercial installations where image and making an impression are all-important.
Distressed™
A favorite pair of jeans whose surface is faded and worn is often adored for the underlying strength in the material and the comfort it provides. Distressed™ is a pattern with the jeans DNA—it’s loaded with character and primal appeal. Stripped of decoration and seemingly altered by time, Distressed communicates a fundamental quality that is as unpretentious as an old pair of Levi’s. It’s easy to imagine in almost any institutional application, especially because, in addition to its good looks, Distressed features an incredibly durable construction. The 100% non-virgin yarn that’s used is the result of a partnership with a global supplier who combines reclaimed carpet fibre from InterfaceFLOR’s own ReEntry® 2.0 processing with yarns yielded by salvaged fishing nets and recycled post-industrial content. What’s more, combining Distressed’s non-virgin fibre face with InterfaceFLOR’s GlasBac® RE backing system delivers a Convert™ product with a minimum of 29 percent post-consumer recycled content and a minimum total recycled content of 77 percent. Twelve colour choices are offered.
Matrix™
Matrix™ is inspired by a cultural obsession with computer-aided everything. It is an orderly, linear pattern. Fine lines expand and contract in two simple tones on a neat, flat surface. Installed alone, Matrix completes the modernist floor plane with a refined definition. Paired with Silurian™, another newbie that was introduced this past June at NeoCon, they become a study in contrasts, presenting a very interesting and unconventional idea about what sits side-by-side—flat and deep, orderly and irregular, fine and broad. Matrix shares a range of 12 colour options with Silurian. Both products are constructed of post-consumer content type 6,6 nylon yarn that is 100 percent solution dyed. The total recycled content is 48 percent, with InterfaceFLOR’s own GlasBac tile backing system incorporated.
Interface HOSPITALITY 
Interface HOSPITALITY, a new division of InterfaceFLOR, is bringing Head Over Heels™, a portfolio of dozens of fresh and compelling modular carpet tile patterns exclusively for the hospitality market, to IIDEX/NeoCon Canada and its Hospitality Canada show. This collection will be on display in Booth #1740 at the Direct Energy Centre, while other introductions to the company’s core line will be shown at IIDEX/NeoCon in Booth #721. Additionally, Interface HOSPITALITY is hosting “Green Hospitality: Challenges and Opportunities,” a seminar session that promises to impart insightful perspectives on the industry’s acceptance and incorporation of sustainable practices.
ReEntry Recycling Expansion
InterfaceFLOR, the manufacturer of modular carpet tile and a trailblazer in sustainability, is taking its carpet recycling know-how on the road by forming alliances with regional carpet recycling operations throughout North America. The first of these relationships is with Canadian-based Aspera Recycling Inc. InterfaceFLOR is providing technical assistance that will help Aspera implement a ReEntry-type system able to recycle end-of-life carpet tiles and broadloom into reusable fibre and PVC backing that go into InterfaceFLOR products. It’s expected that this new iteration of ReEntry, taking shape in the Greater Toronto Area, will be operational by the beginning of 2012.
Make Your Mark
InterfaceFLOR's Claude Ouimet (http://interfaceflorblog.com) discusses the Make Your Mark concept and the fresh perspective it brings to the challenge of rethinking the modern Canadian workspace. Join the movement to overthrow the status quo and transform the spaces we inhabit from the ground up. It's a crusade to repurpose the past and reinvent a sustainable future. In this era of evolution, down is up and red is green and work is play.
Quadrangle Architect Limited's Caroline Robbie discusses with InterfaceFLOR the challenges designers are facing in Canada, and around the world, when designing for the multi-generational workforce. In addition, Robbie examines the unique environmental obstacles many designers encounter in Canada.
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