Debolon Flooring from Mats Inc. Wins Green GOOD DESIGN™ 2013 Posted: Jul 2013 Posted by: Mats Inc.

Debolon Flooring from Mats Inc. has received the esteemed 2013 Green GOOD DESIGN™ Award from the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies and the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design. Alongside some of the world’s most renowned brands such as Coca Cola, Starbucks and Mercedes-Benz, Debolon ranked in The Green Design 100, which recognizes the top 100 worldwide product designs, architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning projects.

In a revolutionary technological development, Debolon Research and Design engineers replaced phthalate plasticizers with domestic sugar beets (citric acid esters) as a natural, sustainable softener in its sheet vinyl flooring. Debolon has been designed to fulfill the unique and demanding requirements in healthcare environments. Debolon Rx™ was designed specifically to meet the needs of the aging population with its signature glare-free design and comfort underfoot. Debolon Rx™ serves as an example to represent just one of the many distinctions in the Debolon flooring collections for healthcare.

Green GOOD DESIGN™ recognizes and promotes design innovation, pioneering achievements and the world’s most significant examples of sustainable design. The program was founded in Chicago in 1950 and remains one the world’s oldest and most prestigious awards programs focused on the idea of repairing our worldwide environments with sustainability and for total ecological restoration. For this year’s awards, members of The European Center’s International Advisory Committee served as the jury and selected over 100 products, programs, people, government, environmental planning and architecture as outstanding examples of Green Design from hundreds of submissions that were received from around the world.

“We are thrilled that Debolon Flooring has been honored with the Green GOOD DESIGN™ award for this scientific breakthrough,” said Rich Ruhlin, Vice President of Healthcare Development at Mats Inc. “This latest advancement allows us to offer an incredibly sustainable healthcare flooring solution, while providing the highest quality and unparalleled performance for which Debolon is already known.”

Beyond the revolutionary advancement, Debolon is a Floorscore® certified, fully recyclable, resilient vinyl flooring collection manufactured with water based inks in an ISO 9001 and 14001 certified facility making it an ideal green flooring solution for healthcare settings, educational environments and more.

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