C&A earns Environmentally Preferable Product Certification for ethos backing

14 Jun '05

4 min read

Carpet retailer C&A Floorcoverings, a Tandus company, announced it has received Environmentally Preferable Product certification for ethos Cushion 100 Roll Goods, a high recycled content, cushion backing for six-foot broadloom carpet. In addition the company renewed the EPP certification initially earned in 2004 for its entire line of ER3 modular carpet and ER3 six-foot structured back broadloom.

The company also renews EPP Certification on ER3 Modular Tile and ER3 Cushion Rolls.

"Without question, the market demand for sustainable design practices is increasing exponentially every year. Unfortunately, this otherwise positive direction has encouraged the proliferation of unsubstantiated or ambiguous marketing claims about the environmental characteristics of products," said Mac Bridger, CEO of Tandus.

"Third-party certification of our products and processes not only assists our customers in making informed decisions about the true environmental attributes of building materials, but it can be included in specifications as a part of the product evaluation and submittal process."

C&A Continues to Lead the Floorcoverings Industry in Third Party Certification

Working closely with Scientific Certification Systems (SCS), an internationally respected, neutral third party testing and certification organization dedicated to evaluating a wide variety of environmental and food safety claims, C&A pioneered the use of third-party certification for the floorcoverings industry in 2000.

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