by Brianna Crandall — July 4, 2014—After recently announcing their intent to go to market as one brand across all surfaces, commercial carpet innovator and supplier Tandus Flooring and upscale boutique luxury vinyl tile (LVT) supplier Centiva, both owned by the Tarkett Group, presented both hard and soft surfaces together at this year’s NeoCon show, and won awards for both.
Tandus Centiva was honored with three awards in the prestigious Best of NeoCon Competition. Out of several products the company introduced, Tandus Centiva was recognized with a Gold Award in the Hard Surface category for Substrate, a Silver Award for Tapis in the Healthcare Flooring category, and an Innovation Award for Mixed Message health care flooring.
Tandus Centiva also received two inaugural product HIP Honoree awards from Interior Design for FreeForm in the Performance Wonder category, and Code for its Use of Color. Suzanne Tick, design director at Tandus Centiva, was honored with two people awards for Product Designer and Design Leader: Manufacturer. In addition, FreeForm was also honored with a “Metropolis Likes” award given by Metropolis Magazine.
Gold: Substrate, in the Flooring: Hard Surface category
Substrate luxury vinyl tile (LVT) is the result of extensive research conceived seven years ago by Suzanne Tick and Terry Mowers as an experiment in bringing the softening beauty and transparent qualities of scrims to commercial floor covering.
Silver: Tapis Collection, in the Healthcare Flooring category
Tapis, which means “rug” in French, is informed by our emotional connection to traditional textiles. Five designs allude to the rich history and motif of Oriental rugs and tapestries, providing familiar warmth and an emotional and physical safe harbor. These recognizable patterns and motifs serve as a counterpoint to the cold and utilitarian elements of senior living and healing environments like technology, furnishings and general medical necessities. Tapis utilizes a new idea with Powerbond by taking a motif and floating it on a random ground, which does not require a direct pattern match. Each pattern is suitable for a certain area in a health care facility, such as a simple pattern for memory care spaces and to divide repeated motifs for wayfinding, and a medium scale style for recreation areas.
Tapis is designed to provide extreme durability for health care environments, lasting 25+ years with reportedly better durability, maintenance, and acoustics than both resilient and carpet. Made with 100% Dynex fiber, this collection is available with a variety of backing and cushion options, including Powerbond Medfloor, which has the same high performance attributes of Powerbond Cushion while addressing the specific rollability issues and high traffic concerns of healthcare facilities. Powerbond reduces slips and falls, and cushions against injuries when they do occur. Bonded closed-cell cushion and a nylon wear layer have molecularly welded seams for wall-to-wall moisture barrier. Like all Tandus products, the Tapis Collection is 100% recyclable through Tandus Centiva’s Scientific Certification Systems (SCS)-certified closed-loop recycling program, which reaches its 20-year milestone in 2014.
Innovation Award: Mixed Message Collection, in the Healthcare Flooring category
The Mixed Message Collection celebrates the evolution of modular flooring. Carpet tile has transitioned from small square shapes that were expected, to seamless installations, to all sorts of shapes and sizes that sometimes even overshadow the design of the face fabric, notes Tandus Centiva. Mixed Message offers a single SKU with four coordinated, unique, separate patterns, designed for 18″ x 36″ tile.
Tandus Centiva’s line of Powerbond, FreeForm, Modular, Broadloom, Woven and LVT flooring products offer a fit-for-purpose approach to enhance spaces for learning, working, healing and living.
