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spec sheet IT’S YOUR CHOICE! Visit www.Tandus.com to research the award-winning products we have to offer. Our latest offering is our patent pending Manufactured Landscapes Collection! This product features Antron Legacy® Nylon and is available in 6 foot rolled goods and 24” tile with a backing of your choice. ED+C | August 2008 ENVIRONMENTAL BACKING OPTIONS ER3® - Modular carpet tile and six-foot roll goods with 100% recycled content backing and 30%-50% overall recycled content. Certified an Environmentally Preferable Product by Scientific Certification Systems and achieved California Gold Standard with a Platinum rating. The only standard product from any carpet company to achieve both of these ratings. 100% closed-loop recyclable in our existing recycling process. Conserv™ - Carpet backing that uses fewer nonrenewable resources and weighs 25% less than standard carpet tile products. 100% closedloop recyclable in our existing recycling process. Cushion Tile - Closed Cell Vinyl Cushion tile is 100% closed-loop recyclable in our existing recycling process. Offers comfort underfoot with all the benefits modular offers. 100% closed-loop recyclable in our existing recycling process. ethos® - Carpet bonding that contains 76% recycled content, from nonchlorinated thermoplastic polymer recovered from car windshields and safety glass, a product that has historically had no commercial applications after its useful life, until Tandus began recycling it. Ethos Cushion 100 has the lowest environmental impact of all the carpet products in BEES 4.0 Life Cycle Analysis software. 100% recyclable in our existing closed loop recycling process. Powerbond® - 100% closed-loop recyclable in our existing recycling process. Molecularly bound seams make this product impermeable to moisture. THIRD-PARTY CERTIFICATIONS NSF-140 - Continuing a 40 year heritage of excellence, Tandus brand C&A has become the ONLY commercial carpet brand to have ALL of its recycled content product lines certified as Environmentally Preferable under the nationally recognized NSF-140 Sustainable Carpet Assessment Standards (SCAS) certification program. NSF-140 is the first certification program that evaluates all measurable aspects of the environmental impact of carpets, from manufacturing to installation to performance to end-of-life issues even to the social performance of the company. Because the certifications are backed by independent third-party audits, designers and specifiers can use NSF-140 as an accurate measure to compare the environmental preferability of different carpet brands and different product lines within brands. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 2008 marks the institution of an exciting and ambitious environmental program at our Dalton, Georgia, and Calhoun, Georgia, facilities - the implementation of an Environmental Management System (EMS). An EMS involves the maintenance of regulatory compliance and the measurement and reporting of environmental metrics with a continual focus on reductions. As a company, we have set environmental targets and goals, are measuring our progress and communicating our initiatives internally and externally. This program requires involvement from every plant, every department and every employee. Carpet & Rug Institute(CRI) – GREEN LABEL PLUS - In 1992, CRI launched its Green Label program to test carpet, cushions and adhesives to help specifiers identify products with very low emissions of VOCs. CRI has recently launched its next series of improvements called Green Label Plus for carpet and adhesives. This enhanced program sets an even higher standard for IAQ and ensures that customers are purchasing the very lowest emitting products on the market. Using scientifically established standards, the Green Label Plus program symbolizes the carpet industry’s commitment to a better environment for living, working, learning and healing. RECLAIMING - RECYCLING We recover our samples and product folders as well as competitive vinyl sample materials from the marketplace after they have served their useful purpose. The Retrieve program extends the life of the materials by reusing and recycling them in order to keep them out of the waste stream. We collect any vinyl-backed carpet, made by any manufacturer and closed-loop recycle it into new carpet. We call it “Mining Buildings for Resources Instead of the Earth®.” No landfills, no incineration, no waste-to-energy -- guaranteed. Just old carpet back into new highperformance carpet - over and over again. For additional information please visit www.Tandus.com; 800.248.2878 http://www.fabcon-usa.com http://www.fabcon-usa.com http://www.edcmag.com/webcard

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Environmental Design & Construction- August 2008 Contents Editor's Note Web TOC Newsline New plus Notable Therapeutic Spaces On the Cover Surviving and Thriving A New Green Era of Luxury Special Section: Greenguard Indoor Air Quality Certification Getting it Right Extra Credit Product Focus 21st Century Schools Marketplace plus Classifieds Advertiser's Index Of the Earth

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