by Shane Henson — January 30, 2012—Armstrong Commercial Flooring, a company offering a broad portfolio of floors for commercial applications, including options for green construction and sustainable design, now offers Striations, what it dubs as its next generation of non-PVC (polyvinyl chloride), biobased tile, along with two new premium tiles with enhanced environmental and performance features—Raffia and ChromaSpin.
According to Armstrong, its tiles are perfect for healthcare, hospitality, office and retail interiors. The linear visual suggests a textile appearance in a 12″x24″ format that helps hide seams. Just as important, the tiles are as easy on the eyes as they are on the environment.
Striations’ essential polymer ingredient, BioStride, is made with a domestically grown, rapidly renewable plant source, so this biobased tile reduces reliance on petroleum and fossil fuels while it expands the affordability of green to commercial projects. In addition to the enhanced range of green benefits, Striations, like Migrations, Armstrong’s original biobased tile, is designed to provide equal or better performance over standard composition tile. It has twice the indent resistance and more than five times greater impact resistance of standard composition tile—all at an affordable cost, assert Armstrong Commercial Flooring’s designers.
Raffia was designed to soften a room with its “gorgeous, subtle and silky” colorways. Its unique 12″x24″ rectangular format offers a linear visual in tonal steps, using Armstrong’s exclusive Continuum color and design system, which utilizes a simple, organized tonal step system and cross-connected colors with different product types to help optimize color selections across Armstrong’s entire portfolio of commercial flooring products. Continuum unites hue, value and chroma to help save time when specifying. Raffia also contains recycled content.
ChromaSpin offers a new spin on colors, recognizing today’s key trends in building construction and interior design. ChromaSpin offers an exciting, familiar, chromatic visual in 32 different color spins with consistency in visual from color to color and tile to tile. This 12″x12″ vinyl composition tile has the same gauge—1/8″—as current biobased tile and luxury vinyl tile floors, so installation is easy.
