Health & Safety.
Vinyl is a widely used in the automotive, food packaging, and healthcare industries where, medical disposables come into contact with patients. Gerflor uses this same high grade raw material to produce its floor coverings to standards that exceed all prescribed health and safety requirements.
• Safe raw materials: no heavy metals, no solvent based inks, no phtalates and components rated as carcinogenic, no formaldehydes, no PCP.
• No substance potentially subject to any REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemical) restrictions.
• Low VOC emissions 70% lower than European standards and Agbb protocol.
• Fire resistance: vinyl does not help fire spread and does not release toxic gaseslike choride (Cl2) and far less carbon monoxide (CO) than any other type of flooring.
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Committed to future generations
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Recycling.
Vinyl is one of the only building materials that is 100% recyclable. Unlike other plastics, it can be endlessly recycled into new products and materials adding value throughout its long lifes.
• Post industrial waste recycling: almost 100% of our manufacturing waste is recycled.
• Post installation waste recycling: In Europe, Gerflor has started to organize the collection of post installation waste from large projects to get these wastes recycled.
• Post consumer waste recycling: Gerflor products are 100 % recyclable a the end of their life and qualify for credits under many internationally accredited Green Building Schemes. Gerflor was also one of the founding members of the first vinyl floor covering recycling workshop: AgPR.
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Maybe it was a floor Gerflor...
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ISO 14001.
In Europe, less than 50% of manufacturers have achieved an ISO 14001 certification and Gerflor is one of them. Gerflor industrial sites are certified ISO 14001 and are committed to continuously improving their environmental performance.
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Gerflor Tarare manufacturing plant
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Life Cycle Analysis.
Life Cycle Analysis is regarded as the ultimate means by which all environmental impacts are measured and improved upon during a product's life cycle including manufacture, delivery, installation, cost of ownership and maintenance, ultimate disposal/recycling of all products. All new Gerflor product ranges are developed using a full life cycle analysis model.
In the UK, all Gerflor products which match the BRE generic flooring specifications have been given either A or A+ratings, with A+ representing the lowest environmental impact possible.
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Datasheets environmental and health
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