2008

ADEX, Awards for Design Excellence, is one of the largest award programs for product design of furniture, fixtures and finishes marketed to the design trade.

* Platinum Adex Award and a Contemporary Design Excellence Award for Circulinity Modular Rubber Tile
* Platinum Adex Award for Melodia Homogeneous Vinyl
* Johnsonite the overall leader of excellence in resilient flooring
* Gold Adex Award for Azrock Karim Kolors
* Platinum Adex for Azrock Added Dimensions

Buildings magazine selected Azrock’s Karim Kolors as one of its top products in its annual awards program called Top 100 Products. Commercial building products are judged by its editorial staff on the following key criteria: innovation, functionality, efficiency, and environmental friendliness.

Azrock’s Emerge eco-resilient tile won a citation of Excellence in the Environmental Solutions category of the Product Innovation Awards Program. Composed of limestone and a polymeric blend composite, Emerge is a new eco-resilient commercial floor tile that contains earth-friendly ingredients and requires minimal maintenance.

2007 - Tarkett commercial flooring gains Readers’ Choice Sustainability award from Contract Floors magazine UK.

Environment

* October 2008 - US Department of Energy awarded Tarkett Commercial Tile with an energy saver award at the World Energy Engineering Congress in Washington. The award recognizes Tarkett’s reduction of energy usage at our manufacturing facility in Houston, Texas. Energy Saver Awards are given to manufacturers who achieve more than 7.5% total energy savings.

Tarkett Commercial Tile worked with a DOE Energy Expert to assess key industrial process systems and identify cost-saving opportunities.

* 2007 - Tarkett Australia won the Westpac Sustainable Business Award which recognises local businesses in the region that are committed to sustainable business practices.   

* In 2004 - Tarkett won the Blekinge Institute of Technology’s Golden Oak as “Leader in sustainable development of the year”