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The Black and WhiteGuide to Green

creating better environments

The flax f lower that produces linseed


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Creating better environments 3

A sustainable future 4

Measuring our footprint 5

Reducing our footprint

Reduce and renewable 6

Reduce and reuse 7

Reduce 8

Renewable 9

Reuse and recycling 10

Green performance 13

Air quality 14

Infection control 15

Our environmental approach by product range

Linoleum 16

Carpet tiles 18

Project vinyl 20

Flotex 21

Entrance flooring systems 22

The way forward 24

Environmental schemes and terms explained 25

Forbos BREEAM ratings 26

Forbos green certifications 27

What to do next 27

Contents

Contents

Introduction

Creating better environments

3

Forbo aims to provide sustainable integrated

flooring solutions for every building, from

bedroom to boardroom, from the local doctors

practice to operating theatres.

Our company ethos o creating better environments

pervades all our actions. From the way we design

our products and source raw materials to the way we

manuacture and despatch. O course it doesnt stop

there. Our environmental responsibility extends to ourproducts during their use and what happens at the end

o their useul lie.

In the ollowing pages well try and stick to the acts

o the matter. Well take a look at the independent

methods we use to measure our environmental impacts

and how we build greennessinto our processes and

products. Well also try and give an insight in to the

many environmental schemes out there to enable our

customers to make a choice o looring using sound

environmental inormation.

I you would like more details on anything in thisbrochure, please dont hesitate to contact us on

0800 0282 162 or email [email protected]

Founding member and presidency o the

Green Building Council in North America,

Holland and Germany. Member o the

UK Green Building Council

Leading member o Carpet Recycling UK

Member o VinylPlus or increased recycling

o post consumer PVC and shareholder o

the European Vinyl Recycling acility AgPR

in Germany

The Forbo Way to Win Sustainability project

which encourages every Forbo employee

around the globe to actively participate in

reducing our environmental impact has

generated 1700 ideas so ar

The Netherlands: Dutch environmental

quality mark since 1998

Scandinavia: Nordic Swan Label since 1996

Germany: the natureplus Seal o Quality since

2004 and more recently the Blue Angel mark

Australia and New Zealand: the Good

environmental Choice Eco-labelsince 2007

USA: SMART since 2008

Our environmental achievements date back over a decade and are truly global:


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54 Sustainabil ity policy

Forbo Flooring Systemssustainability policy

Reducing our environmental ootprint

Reducing ourenvironmental footprint

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Ensure that all sta are ully aware o our

Sustainability Policy and are committed to

implementing and improving it

Forbo Flooring Systems

fully commits to being a

sustainable partner to all

our stakeholders.

As a global leader in flooring systems we have a

responsibility to all our stakeholders, to create a

better environment. The way we serve and drive

the market sets the pace and standard for world

class flooring solutions. Sustainable development

and creating better environmentsare integral

parts of all of Forbo Flooring Systemsactivities.

Founded in 1928, Forbos irst product was linoleum

made rom renewable natural raw materials, ully

biodegradable and environmentally riendly. We

have been at the oreront o sustainable awareness

ulilment or over 80 years. This global sustainability

awareness has grown in the last decade, becoming

clear that natural source depletion and global warming

are two practices that cannot continue as they

have in the past i we are to ulil our obligations to

uture generations. It is these obligations, to uture

generations, that we will comply to and in doing so act

as a sustainable enterprise.

Forbo underwrites the broad and all inclusive deinition

or sustainable development as it has been accepted by

the United Nations Commission on Environment and

Development, General Assembly Resolution, 1987.

Developments that meet present needs

without compromising the ability of future

generations to meet their needs.

The United Nations definition of sustainability recognises three individual

dimensions that together make up a sustainable policy, they are:

The Economic dimension:

the way in which the company

organises its position in the

market place to actively develop

its sustainable proile by using its

economic stability and proitability

or continuous improvement.

Forbo Flooring Systems supports these dimensions

in a constructive and consistent manner through

the following principles:

Compliance Plus a commitment to go above and

beyond Government regulations and requirements

Integrating Sustainability considerations into all our

business decisions

Regular monitoring o progress and review o

sustainability perormance

Commitment to continuous improvement

Promoting Sustainability throughout our

value chain, and expecting our suppliers and

customers to comply with this

Our target

To continuously minimise the environmental

impact of Forbo Flooring Systems as

measured by the weighted categories in our

independently verified Life Cycle Assessment

measurement system by 25% before the end

of 2015 (cf 2009).

We shall succeed by:By applying Forbos 4 Rs

ReduceRenewable

ReuseRecycle

in this order

Measurement

Forbo uses Lie Cycle Assessment (LCA) as the

independent methodology o measuring our impact

on the environment.

Based on LCA assessment* we already out perorm the

industry average in resilient looring categories. Forbos

range o textile products is currently being assessed.

Measuring our LCA

The LCA is calculated or 1m2 installed loor covering

rom cradle to installation. We based our LCA

calculation on the weighed mass o all the products we

produced. We also included the energy consumptiono all our oices and warehouses worldwide.

When evaluating our LCA, we took into account the

ollowing environmental impact categories:

Acidiication potential

Eutrophication potential

Ozone layer depletion potential

Photo oxidant creation potential

Abiotic depletion potential

Global warming potential

We strongly believe that creating better environments

means reducing all environmental impacts and not only

Global Warming. Thereore, we equally weight all six

impact categories and express them in one index igure.

The LCA index Environmental Footprint shows

that we have continued to improve our perormance

or the ourth straight year. The carbon ootprint

Global Warming Potential has been reduced by

over 30% since 2007. This is partly due to our policy

o purchasing renewable orms o electricity and our

internal waste reuse and recycling programmes.

The following pages provide more detail on the

activities and programmes we are undertaking to

continue to reduce our LCA index Environmental

footprint and thereby achieve our challenging

target.

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GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL INDEX

CARBON FOOTPRINT

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LCA INDEX

ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT

The Social dimension:

the way in which Corporate

Social Responsibility and

Corporate Governance

are deined and ollowed

within the company.

The Environmental

dimension: the way in which

measures speciic to improving

the environmental impact o

the processes and products o

the company are regulated and

executed.

Jens Schneider

Executive Vice President, Forbo Flooring Systems


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76 Reduce and renewable Reduce and reuse 7

Product design and raw material sourcing

When we begin with our blank piece

of paper, we start to design with the

end in mind.

Andy Hall

Vice President of innovation and product management

Forbos product development is ocused on reducingthe use o virgin raw material and developing

processes and products that result in the lowest

proven environmental impact as measured through

LCA (Lie Cycle Assessment). We work closely with our

suppliers to source new, low i mpact materials that

help us achieve a Compliance Plusrating. We also

design engineerour products to ensure that they

use the minimum amount o raw material without

compromising on perormance.

Examples:

The backing o our Westbond and Flotex tiles

comprises up to 74% reused and recycled

PVC material

A multi-million investment in new tuting

technology allows us to produce carpet tiles with

heavy contact perormance using less material

Our project vinyl ranges such as Eternal, Step

and Flex Design contain up to 45% reused post

industrial waste

Marmoleums construction is based on abundant,

renewable raw materials such as linseed oil, tall

oil, rosin and wood lour. Approximately 70% o

Marmoleums raw materials are harvestable within

10 years o planting

40% o Marmoleums content is recycled post

industrial waste

The Westbond Natural range o carpet tiles is

made rom undyed British wool, a natural and

renewable resource

We use 100% recycled aluminium in our Nuway

entrance systems and many o the ranges are double

sided allowing twice the wear beore they need to

be replaced

By working closely with a new supplier to maximise

the use o recycled material we are able to produce

our Tessera Inline carpet tile range with a recycled

yarn content o up to 55%

Our focus on environmental manufacturing

has resulted in a variety of new and unique

processes. These processes also form the basis for

measurement and monitoring to help us reduce

our environmental impact.

ENERGY CONSUMPTION PER M2

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Examples:

Manufacturing

Our Marmoleum production has reached a material

eiciency o approximately 98% making our

Marmoleum almost a closed-loopproduct

Through modern cutting technology weve

dramatically reduced our carpet tile cutting wasteby 80% and the little waste material that is now

generated is processed into material used or

repairing road suraces or is sent to a waste to

energyacility

The production o Tessera Mix has been made

possible through the use o advanced CMC tuting

technology. As a random lay and batchless carpet tile,

Tessera Mix installation waste is reduced to 2%

Energy

We are pleased to report the upward trend in 2008

and 2009 reversed in 2010. Our energy consumption

per m2 o product produced ell by 2.1% in 2010

compared to 2009, in line with our targeted reduction

o 2%

Although we are not back to the levels o 2007 we are

conident that urther improvement will be gained

in 2011. This will mainly be achieved through the

large number o improvement projects that were

raised through the Forbo Way to Win employee ideas

programme (see page 8) and also volume growth

through our manuacturing plants

Reduce, Renewable, Reuse, Recycle Reduce, Renewable, Reuse, Recycle

Forbos 4 Rs in practice Forbos 4 Rs in practice


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98 Reduce Renewable 9

Energy

Our use o renewable electricity continues to grow

and now accounts or over 86% o the total electricity

our 12 manuacturing acilities consume. This has

helped to reduce our carbon ootprint still urther

The total amount o CO2

that we have taken out o

the environment is now over 125,000 tonnes since

2007. We believe that this is the most responsible

course o action, preerring this method to that o

simply trying to oset

The growth in the use o renewable electricity in

2010 has altered our overall primary energy mix. In

2010 this igure approached 46%, which compares

positively with most other looring companies

Materials

Linseed Oil, Rosin, Tall Oil, Cork, Wood lour, Wool, Jute,

Wood, Cardboard and Paper renewable materials

orm a signiicant part o what we purchase in order

to deliver the products our customers demand. In

2010 on average over 36% o our products were

made up o renewable materials. O course the vast

majority o these materials are used in the production

o Marmoleum, which is our most sustainable

product, but as non renewables begin to run out,

their prominence along with other sustainable

materials will become more important in our uture

product developments

Examples:

Replacing wooden pallets by recycled cardboard

pallets in the USA. Less transport weight, less virgin

raw material, easy to recycle again

Using dierent sizes pre-cut lengths o paper or

the automatic packing machine at Forbo in France.

Reducing annual paper consumption by 2%

Rewinding yarn ends and reuse in producing

Tessera carpet tiles. Reduced waste and use o virgin

raw material

Reducing the amount o water to produce steamat Forbo Ripley. Reduced energy needed to

produce Flotex

Using warm exhaust air rom air compressor

installations or space heating at one o our Forbo

sites in Holland. Reduced energy needed to heat

production areas during winter time

Elimination o the cardboard cores in the Jumbo

rolls o Flotex without any compression damage.

Reduced cardboard use o 50 tonnes per year

Replacement o the virgin polythene, used to protect

carpet tile top cloth prior to backing, with reusable

wraps. Reduction in the use o virgin raw materials

Last year we rolled out an internal awareness programme The Forbo Way

to Win. We used this to introduce our sustainability policy and to strengthen

our employees engagement by providing a platform for them to contribute

to our efforts in reducing our environmental impacts. The programme

generated over 1700 ideas resulting in 600 possible projects, some of which

have already been successfully implemented.

Reduce, Renewable, Reuse, Recycle Reduce, Renewable,Reuse, Recycle


F lo te x w it h c ar db oa rd co re F lo te x w it ho ut ca rd bo ar d c or e R eu sa bl e w ra ps on ou r c ar pe t t il etop cloth

Recycled cardboard pallets

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RENEWABLE V NON RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY

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Its important to recognise that recycling is not

always the best option in terms of energy usage

and recovery. If product has to be shipped a long

distance to a recycling plant, the environmental

impact of the journey on the LCA may be negative.

Its therefore important to understand all impacts

of the recycling and re-use programmes.

Firstly we must explain by what we mean by reuse and

recycling. Forbo deine reuse as being waste generated

that ater processing can be ed back as a raw material

into the same sites manuacturing processes. Our

deinition o recycling is material diverted rom the

waste stream during a manuacturing process that

is sent to a third par ty (other Forbo sites or external

recyclers) or them to use as a raw material.

2010 saw an increase in the amount o product

waste that we were able to both reuse and recycle

to almost 80%. I we include the waste used to

produce energy waste to energy then the igure

is approaching 95%

Only 5% o the product waste we generate is

landilled. This is contributing to less raw material

depletion and reducing urther the CO2

emissions

involved in producing virgin materials

Across the division, over 25% o our product is made

rom recycled & re-used materials. I ncreasing the

recycled and reused content will continue to be one

o our major deliverables in the years to come

Post consumer waste recycling

We are actively seeking ways in which we can

contribute urther in the ield o post consumer waste,

or example, we have acilitated the take back o carpet

in the UK which has enabled material to be reused

that would have ordinarily ended up as landill. We

have done this through our involvement with Carpet

Recycling UK (CRUK). See page 25 or more details o

CRUK and visit www.orbo-looring.co.uk/environment

or case studies on our carpet tile reclamation schemes.

Forbo Flooring is taking part in additional recyclinginitiatives all over Europe such as GBR in Sweden and

SFEC in France and is a ounding member o EPFLOOR.

EPFLOOR membership is composed o all the major

Western European Vinyl looring manuacturers

representing over 90% o the production. Since 2001,

the EPFLOOR members have provided increasing unds

or supporting the recycling o post-consumer vinyl

waste. The increase in collection o waste has been a

priority since 2004 resulting in 2200 tonnes o recycled

waste in 2010.

Save a Sample scheme

Sample material is needed to show decision makers

how wonderul our products look! These loose samples

are oten only used once and are then thrown away.

At the end o 2010 we i nitiated a trial o a take back

programme or both re-use and recycling o the

samples. The irst three month trial period proved very

successul with over 90% o samples returned being o

high enough quality to be reused again as sampling

material, thereby preventing

the use o virgin raw

materials. The trial

has now been

extended until at

least the end o 2011.

Installation waste

When it comes to renovation or new build projects,

installation waste o loor coverings normally gets

mixed up with the regular building waste. For

Marmoleum this doesnt present an issue as all

waste is bio-based and can be incinerated without

any harmul eects, generating a high caloriic

value. The amount o energy that can be recovered

rom linoleum waste is 65% more than we use in

production

For vinyl and textile loor coverings the quality oinstallation waste is vital. Forbo participates in a

number o proessional installation waste collection

programmes. With our participation in these schemes,

we hope to gain knowledge and provide motivation

or third parties to develop their expertise

Forbo is one o the participating members o

VinylPlus, an organisation committed to increasing

PVC waste recycling in Europe

Production waste (let) is turned into road bricks (right)

that are used to repair road suraces.

Recycled tile backing being produced at our Ripley plantRecycled Marmoleum at our Kirkcaldy production plant

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Examples:

Maintenance

Installation o our entrance system products can

stop up to 90% o dirt entering a building thereby

reducing the amount o cleaning needed and saving

on chemical usage

Our loor care instructions have been developed to

ocus on optimising the use o water and energy. We

have engineered many o our resilient ranges such as

Marmoleum, in such a way that we can saely advise

dry/spray maintenance in most cases

The PUR pearl inish on some o our project vinyl

ranges ensures that chemical usage through cleaning

is greatly reduced

Flotex locked looring can be easily cleaned using

standard equipment and without harsh chemicals

Forbos carpet tile ranges are suitable or cleaning

using Dry Fusion which uses little water and only

neutral cleaners

The less time, energy, resources and materials required

to maintain the appearance and performance of a

flooring product in situ, the less environmental impact

the product makes. The proven durability of a product

backed up by robust guarantees also lessens the

impact as products dont need to be replaced as often.

Durability

Durable coatings such as PUR pearl on our vinyl

ranges and Topshield on our linoleum ranges extend

the economic lie o our looring. The Topshield inish

allows a complete renovation o the loor extending

the products lie even urther and improves the LCA

(Lie Cycle Assessment) score by 14%

Most o Tesseras carpet tile ranges are oered with

an optional Sotbac backing. This backing is made

rom recycled plastic drinks bottles and it extends the

guarantee by 50%, which in most cases means to15 years

Nuway tutiguard, heavy duty, lameguard and FR are

all double-sided and are all oered with a structural

guarantee o up to 15 years

PUR

Pearl

Waste

Reducing waste remains one o our main priorities.

It impacts both inancially (material usage, energy,

disposal costs) and environmentally. At the same time,

it is recognised that we also have a responsibility to

dispose o those wastes we do generate with minimum

impact on the environment.

Through reuse and recycling options

Our waste perormance index measured as mass

production waste as a percentage o input remains

very static. Although 2010 showed a slight increase in

comparison to 2009 this is well within the levels we

have seen during the last our years

All Forbos sites within the UK

participate in Shred It s shredding

and recycling programme and

saved 77 trees rom destruction in 2010

Examples:

Recycling of post industrial waste

Recycling o post industrial waste into our products

is one o the best ways to reduce our total

environmental ootprint. Many years ago we started

to recycle waste products rom other industries into

our linoleum products. During the last 10 years this

has been optimised. In our Ripley plant we have a

department where a mixture o internal scrap and

post industrial waste is recycled and reused into

backing or our Flotex tiles

In 2009 we increased our recycling eorts, developing

a backing or our Westbond carpet tile products

The Ripley plant processes the groups PVC waste as

well as that o our competitors, reducing the amount

o waste going to landill rom the looring industry

as a whole

Rubber and aluminium waste rom our Nuway

production at Telord is recycled. The rubber is used

in bowling clubs and equestrian centres

Investment in re-processing in one o our carpet tile

plants has resulted in reducing yarn waste to landill

by 75 tonnes per annum

WASTE PERFORMANCE INDEX

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% REUSED AND RECYCLED PRODUCT WASTE

Reuse 62%

Recycle 17%

Waste to Energy 14%

Landfll 5%

PRODUCT WASTE BREAKDOWN 2010

Reduce,Renewable, Reuse, Recycle Reducing our footprint post sale

Forbos 4 Rs in practice


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For years we have been working to produce

products which have the lowest volatile organic

compound emissions (VOCs).

Both Marmoleum and Flotex hold

the Seal o Approval rom the British

Allergy Foundation or the positive

eect that they have on the lives o

allergy suerers.

AgBB/DIBt To establish the undamentals or a

uniorm and reproducible health-related evaluation

o building products, the Committee or Health-

related Evaluation o Building Products (Ausschuss

zur gesundheitlichen Bewertung von Bauprodukten

- AgBB) has developed criteria or testing and an

evaluation scheme or VOC emissions rom building

products suitable or indoor usage. The evaluation

scheme sets quality standards relevant to health or

uture production o building products or use indoors

and osters the development o particularly low-

emission products.

All Forbo Flooring products have been tested to this

standard and ulil all requirements.

LEED this is an environmental scheme operating in

North America and which some UK architects like to

use. Forbo has recently undertaken testing o some o

its product ranges in accordance with the requirements

o Caliornia Speciication Section 01350 which relates

to indoor air quality and low emitting materials.

Products rom our Tessera, Westbond, Coral and Flotex

ranges meet the requirements.

Carpet and Rug Institute Green Label

scheme this is also part o LEED.

Products rom the Tessera and Westbond

ranges meet the requirements o this

scheme.

*Sanitized isa registeredtrademark

o SANITIZEDAGLicense No 2893.04

Forbos Marmoleum Flooring has been specified

extensively in hospitals and healthcare

environments throughout the world for its

outstanding performance characteristics, natural

raw materials and exceptional hygiene properties.

Forbo commissioned Independent testing by Proessor

Gemmell o the Bacterial Inection and Epidemiology

Department o the University o Glasgow, to determine

the bacteriostatic attributes o Marmoleum. Theresults o the tests support Marmoleums use as a

recommended looring product to be used in hospitals

in the ight against inection or both MRSA and

Norovirus (winter vomiting virus).

Testing by the Centre de Recherche Industrielle in

Quebec has also conirmed that Marmoleum proves

its bacteriostatic eiciency against Clostridium

diicile when tested according to the TNO seed

layer method, the AATCC 100 method and the vivo

simulations method.

Forbos Flotex also has anti microbial properties. The

anti microbial Sanitized treatment o the Flotex base

ensures continuous protection against bacteria such

as MRSA and E Coli and moulds such as athletes oot.

The Sanitized treatment is compounded into the

Flotex backing, continually rereshing the anti microbial

perormance without degradation through cleaning.

This makes Flotex the ideal loor covering or healthcare

and educational institutions.

To receive a pack including all the independent testreports please ring 0800 731 2369.

Air quality Infection control

Over the previous pages, weve shown

how Forbo is working towards towards its

challenging sustainability target detailed on

page 5. Over the following few pages, we will

demonstrate how these global programmes

are reflected in the environmental profiles of

our products.

I was invited to test Forbos Marmoleum looring

or antibacterial activity as I had heard much

about its bacteria ighting qualities. I have to

admit, along with most o the scientiic world,

to having a degree o scepticism about these

proclaimed qualities. I am now delighted to

say that, ater robust testing, the claims are

shown to be quite true Marmoleum does

indeed inhibit the growth o several bacteria

including MRSA.

Professor Curtis G Gemmell B.Sc., PhD, FRCPath

Professor of Bacterial Infection and Epidemiology,

University of Glasgow

Director of the Scottish MRSA Reference Laboratory


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Forbos Marmoleum complies with more

environmental quality marks than any other

flooring product in the world.

According to a LCA study o the University o

Leiden in the Netherlands, Marmoleum is the most

sustainable resilient loor covering in the world

Linoleum has been assessed by the BREEAM

scheme and achieves A+ in many key segments.

See page 26 or details

Certiied by the British Allergy Foundation, linoleum

is proven to have a positive impact on the lives o

allergy suerers

Forbo is the only linoleum manuacturer to achieve

the nature plus certiicate, a very strict German

eco mark

Marmoleum has also been awarded Cradle to Cradle

silver certiication

It is biodegradable in a controlled environment

Easy to clean, linoleum loor coverings contribute

to a healthy interior climate

Marmoleum contains 40% recycled content

A selection of our International

environmental awards

Linseed oil renewable

Linseed oil, the key raw material o l inoleum, is obtained by

pressing the seeds o the lax plant. Oxidizing the oil creates

a thick spongy mass we call cement, which orms the basis

o linoleum.

Linoleum creating better environments

Rosin renewable

Rosin is a binding agent that, together with linseed oil, gives

our linoleum its strength and lexibility.

Wood flour renewable

Wood lour rom controlled orests is used to bind pigments,

ensure colourastness and optimise a smooth surace, its the

secret to why our linoleums maintain their beautiul, vibrant

colours throughout their lives.

Limestone

Limestone, very inely ground, is used to achieve a speciic

density in our linoleum.

Pigments

The most beautiul colours are created by using ecologically

responsible pigments. Forbo pigments thereore do not

contain heavy metals such as lead and cadmium.

Jute renewable

Natural jute is used as a backing on which to calendar the

linoleum cement.

Linoleum is a natural product made from 97 % natural, raw materials. 70% of Marmoleums

raw materials are renewable ie harvestable within 10 years of planting.

FFS-2011GECA25-2011

FloorCoverings

2805023EC-28-08

FloorCoverings

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Reprocessing of yarn waste has signifcantly reduced landfill

Tessera and Westbond carpet tile ranges have been

assessed under the BREEAM scheme and achieve

A/A+ in many key sectors. See page 26 or details

Many Tessera and Westbond ranges also comply with

the CRI Green Label Plus scheme, a measure o indoor

air quality required by the LEED build scheme

SOFTbac, an optional Tessera tile backing is

made rom 90% recycled polyester and is itsel,ully recyclable

Westbond tile backing is produced using up to

74% recycled PVC

Westbond oers a range containing pure and natural

undyed wool with a recycled backing, Westbond

Natural. Forbo has also joined the Campaign or wool

in an eort to promote the use o this natural and

renewable resource

Through discussions with several suppliers, we now

ship latex trim waste to a local contractor who uses it

in equestrian looring, thereby reducing waste going

to landill

A selection o Tessera ranges have been designed

to include unusually high recycled yarn content

e.g. Inline contains up to 55% recycled yarn

Investment in reprocessing has reduced the amount

o yarn waste sent to landill by 75 tonnes

Tessera Mix, Forbos random lay and batchless carpet

tile range reduces installation waste to 2% and avoids

the need or attic stock

Carpet Tiles

PATRON: HRH THE PRINCE OF WALES

Our ultrasonic tile cutting process reduces tile

waste by 80% compared to traditional press cutting

methods. The little waste now generated is sent or

recycling into road repair material or to a waste to

energyacility

Forbo has used ultrasonic cutting or over a decade

and has prevented approximately 5,000 tonnes o

waste going to landill

97% o our packaging is made rom recycled or

renewably sourced materials. 100% is recyclable.

We also oer a no boxoption or bulk deliveries

One o Forbos Vice Presidents is a director o Carpet

Recycling UK

Tessera Mix random lay and batchless

Tessera Inline loop pile


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Flotex is the only locked loor covering to have been

assessed under the BREEAM scheme and achieves A/A+

in many key sectors see page 26 or details

Flotex tile backing is produced using up to 74% reused

and recycled PVC

Due to a highly eective anti microbial treatment,

Sanitized, Flotex oers constant protection against

MRSA, E Coli and the development o dust mites

Being completely waterproo, Flotex is a truly washable

textile foor covering and can be cleaned at

100C or steam disinection

Proven to have a positive impact on the lives o

allergy suerers, Flotex is certied by the British

Allergy Foundation

Flotex meets the requirements o Caliornia

Specication section 01350 which relates to

indoor air quality

*Sanitized isa registered

trademark o SANITIZED

AGLicense No 2893.04

Flotex Flocked Floor Covering

Forbo is a member o VinylPlus, an ambitious ten year

sustainability programme operated by the leading

companies in the industry to increase the recycling o

PVC across Europe

All Forbos project vinyl ranges meet the European air

quality requirements as deined by AgBB/DIBt

Many o the products in Forbos project vinyl ranges

contain up to 45% reused PVC production waste in

their backing layers

Forbo has established a unique process to optimise

the reuse o PVC waste, reducing the need or virgin

PVC material

High perormance, durable PUR pearl coatings extend

the economic lie o the loor covering and reduce the

amount o maintenance needed

All Forbos project vinyl ranges are manuactured

in sites certiied to ISO14001 and use renewable

electricity

Project Vinyl

Nylon 6.6 locked pile

Adhesive layer containing

Sanitized anti-microbial agent

Migration o Sanitized

anti-microbial agent

into pile and backing


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2322 Entrance Flooring SystemsEntrance Flooring Systems

At the time o print, Coral is the only

product to have BREEAM assessed

entrance looring products. For details

please see page 26

The construction o most Nuway entrance mats allows

them to be reversible, eectively doubling their liespan

The aluminium scraper bars in Nuway are made

rom 100% recycled aluminium

Rubber or aluminium waste generated by the Nuway

production process is recycled. Rubber pips are sent

to crown bowling clubs or gully lining and other

rubber waste is used in equestrian centres

Any yarn waste rom our Coral production is

reused by the yarn supplier

The Coral manuacturing plant has achieved virtually

zero landill. Waste yarns rom Coral manuacturing

are used in small entrance mats

Coral meets the requirements o Caliornia

Speciication section 01350 which relates to

indoor air quality

Entrance Flooring Systems

Installing an effective entrance system can stop up to 90% of the dirt and

moisture entering a building. As a result, this may save up to 65% of the

lifetime cleaning costs of the floor and reduce the use of cleaning materials.

2

3

A zoned approach

External primary mattingOutside the building entrance, primary matting

is the irst line o deence against ootborne

soil, scraping the coarsest dirt rom the soles o

shoes beore they cross the threshold.

Internal primary mattingImmediately beyond the external matting,

internal primary matting is required to remove

ootborne moisture and iner particles o soil.

Internal secondary mattingFlooring leading away rom the entrance

area in the reception, corridors etc must

be speciically designed to withstand heavy

traic and intensive cleaning regimes. They will

be prone to residual soiling and will inevitably

require a high level o cleaning to maintain

perormance and appearance.

2

3

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24 25The way orward in 2011 Guide to green certifcation 25

ISO 14001

This is the ramework by which a business addresses

the issues surrounding its environmental impacts,

including legal compliance.

BRE

The Building Research Establishment was

established 80 years ago and has a growing ocus on

improving the environmental perormance o buildings.

BREEAM

Building Research Establishment Environmental

Assessment Methodology. This scheme measures the

environmental impact o a material or product over a

set time period o 60 years.

The scheme was reclassiied in 2009 and now the

environmental rating o a product diers depending

on its application e.g. the same product could achieve

dierent BREEAM ratings i being used in a school

rather than an oice.

Also, where the manuacturing process or a category

o products is similar across many companies, e.g. vinyl,

the manuacturers may choose to display a generic

rating rather than one or each speciic product. In this

case, individual BREEAM product certiicates will not

be available.

Please see chart overlea or BREEAM ratings or all

Forbo products.

UK Green Building Council

Their mission is to dramatically

improve the sustainability o the

built environment, by radically

transorming the way it is planned,

designed, constructed, maintained

and operated. Forbo is a member.

LEED CHPS 01350

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. This is

the leading green building certiication programme in

the US. LEED is a points based system or evaluating

the environmental proile o a building. Unlike BREEAM,

no single product can obtain a LEED credit.

Green Label Plus scheme

This orms part o the LEED scheme. This is

a voluntary industry testing programme or

carpet and adhesive products which aims

to establish the highest standard or indoor

air quality ever set by the US carpet industry.

The Carpet and Rug I nstitute o America (CRI) created

Green Label Plus to identiy carpets and adhesives that

are tested by an independent, certiied laboratory and

meet stringent criteria or low chemical emissions.

CRUK

Forbo Flooring is a member o Carpet Recycling UK.

CRUK has a target to divert 25% o carpet

waste rom landill by 2015 recovering

valuable raw materials. Since its inception in

2008, the landill diversion rate has increased

rom 2% to 10% with more than 40,000 tonnes o

waste carpet being recovered in 2010.

Carpet Recycling UK commissions research and

provides technical support to recyclers, Regular

regional meet the recycler sessions increase the

awareness that carpet can be recycled and have led

to increased reprocessing capacity being installed.

Specialist carpet recyclers have increased rom 6 to 30

in the last 2 years.

For case studies showing how Forbo has worked with

CRUK on carpet tile reclamation schemes, please visit

www.orbo-looring.co.uk/environment

Flooring Sustainability Partnership

Forbo Flooring is a member o the Flooring

Sustainability Partnership.

The purpose o the Flooring

Sustainability partnership is to improve

the sustainability o all looring types

at all stages o the supply chain. FSP

aims to provide a single voice or the UK Flooring

industry to lobby and advise government o progress in

reducing the total amount o looring waste produced

and sent to landill.

Guide to green certificationThe way forward

Energy

We expect that the use o renewable electricity will

increase. In 2011, 10 o our 12 production acilities will

have some or all o their electricity supplied rom

renewable sources taking us to more than 95% o

electricity used rom renewable source over all our sites.

Reuse and RecyclingOur R&D, Engineering and Innovation teams will play an

important role as we analyse the way we engineer our

products and processes. In terms o waste we generate,

we will build upon our sound reuse and recycling

opportunities to minimise environmental impact and

maximise economic opportunity.

Water

We recognise that although most o our production

processes do not use water, in 2011 we will gather data

in respect o our water usage. Water is becoming an

increasingly important resource and we shall determine a

baseline rom which we will measure our improvements.

Green Design and Innovation

We believe that design, in environmental terms, is a very

important link in the chain and i we are to improve our LCA

result then design has a central role to play. Forbo Flooring

is placing great emphasis on Green Design and Innovation.

It is recognised that i we are to achieve our divisional

goals o becoming a sustainable and environmental

leader then we have to do things dierently.

SuppliersDuring 2010 we have been exploring how we can work

together with our main raw material suppliers to create

a better environment through the reduction o our LCA

by 25%. We have learned that many o our suppliers

have set their own targets to improve their own

environmental ootprint. In 2011 we will begin to use an

environmental scorecard to evaluate the environmental

perormance and the selection o our suppliers.

Forbo Way to Win programme

These projects are part o the total environmental

improvement program we are executing in 2011.

Forbo is continually looking for opportunities to create better environments.

Below are some examples of the areas where we hope to make further improvments.


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BREEAM generic ratings for floor coverings

Product Description Building TypeCommercial

Education Health Domestic Retail(Durability)

Retail(Fashion)

1999Results

Allura Printed laminate PVC loor covering (EN649) A A+ A+ A A+ A+

Acoustic VinylPVC loor covering with a oam layer (EN651)

A A+ A+ A A A+

Colorex Homogeneous PVC loor coverings (EN649) A A+ A+ A A+ A+

Compact VinylHeterogeneous PVC loor coverings (EN649)

A A+ A+ A A+ A+

Cushioned Vinyl ClassicCushioned PVC loor covering (EN653)

A+

Cushioned Vinyl Novilon, Novilux, CushionflorCushioned PVC loor covering (EN653)

A

Safety Flooring PVC loor covering with enhancedslip resistance

A A+ A+ B A+ A

Linoleum Plain and decorative linoleum (EN548) A A+ A+ A A+ A+

BREEAM specific ratings for product rangesRipley Flotex

Flotex F50 tile with recycled backing B B B B B A+ A

Flotex F200 sheet with PVC backing A A A A A A+ A

Bamber Bridge Tessera

Apex A A A A A A+ A

Format A A A A A A + B

Teviot A A A B A A + A

Primera A A A B A A + B

MIx A A A B A A + B

Helix B A A B B A + B

Optimum Create Loop B A A B B A + B

Ethos B A A B B A + B

Sheerpoint B B B C B A B

Softbac Results

Teviot with Softbac A A+ A+ A A A+ B

Helix with Softbac A A+ A+ A A A+ B

Ethos with Softbac A A+ A+ A A A+ B

Apex with Softbac A A+ A+ A A A+ B

Format with Softbac A A A A A A B

Primera with Softbac A A A A A A B

Mix with Softbac A A A B A A B

Optimum Create Loop with Softbac A A A B A A B

Sheerpoint with Softbac B A A B B A B

Krommenie Coral

Coral Brush Activ B B B C B A B

Coral Classic B A A B B A+ B

Coral Duo B A A B B A+ B

Westbond

N9000 B B B C B A N/A

N9000 with Softbac C C C D C A N/A

Wool Nylon Polyester (80/10/10) 1200g D D D D D A N/A

BREEAM generic ratings What to do next 27

The green guide to Forbo

Linoleum Tessera Westbond ProjectVinyl

Flotex Coral Nuway

BREEAMGenericrating

Certiicationby product

range


range

Genericrating


range


range


range

IndoorAir quality:Allergy UK

certifed

Allergy UK

certifed

AgBB/DIBt Pass Pass N/A Pass Pass N/A N/A

CHPS 01350 Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass N/A

CarpetandRug Institute Yes Yes

Producedusing

renewable electricityYes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

LCA independently assessed YesCurrently

beingassessed

Currentlybeing

assessedYes

Currentlybeing

assessed

Currentlybeing

assessedN/A

GuaranteeUp to

25 yearsUp to 15 yearswith Sotbac

Up to10 years

Up to15 years

Up to10 years

Up to5 years

Up to15 years

ISO9001,ISO14001 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

MemberofCRUK N/A Yes Yes N/A N/A N/A N/A

MemberofGUT/ERFMI Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

MemberofUKGreenBuildingCouncil

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

We hope that this brochure has given you an insight into the wide array o

environmental credentials available along with an understanding o why Forbo has

chosen the Lie Cycle Assessment approach.

We have a very challenging target to meet by 2015 and hopeully, weve shown

how steps are already being taken to help us meet this target.

Should you have urther queries on our environmental proile, or questions about

any Forbo product, please dont hesitate to get in touch.

Please contact your local Forbo Business Area Manager, ring 0800 0282 162, email

[email protected] visit our website at www.forbo-flooring.co.uk

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total ooring solutions for any environment.

and entrance ooring products combine

Forbo Flooring Systems is part of the

Forbo Group, a global leader in ooring,

bonding and movement systems, and

oers a full range of ooring products for

both commercial and residential markets.

High quality linoleum, vinyl, textile, ocked

functionality, colour and design, oering

creating better environments

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UK

Forbo Flooring UK Limited

PO Box 1, Kirkcaldy, Fie KY1 2SB

London EC1 showroom

79 St John Street, Clerkenwell

London EC1M 4NR

Tel: 0207 553 9300

For commercial enquiries:

I callingrom the North,

Midlands, London & South East

Tel: 0800 0282 162

Fax: 01772 646 912

I callingrom Scotland & South West

Tel: 0800 0935 258

Fax: 01592 643 999

Nuway enquiries:

Tel: 01773 740 688

Fax: 01773 740 640

Residential enquiries:

Tel: 0800 0935 846

Fax: 01592 643 999

Email: [email protected]

www.orbo-looring.co.uk

Samples:

Tel:0800 731 2369

Ireland

Forbo Ireland Ltd

2 Deansgrange Business Park

Blackrock

Co Dublin

Tel: 00353 1 2898 898

Fax: 00353 1 2898 177

Email: [email protected]

www.orbo-looring.ie

Registered office:

Forbo Flooring UK Limited

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Fie KY1 2ER

Registered in Scotland: No 41400

0800 731 2369

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