Sustainability and Rubber

Rubber flooring is one of the most environmentally-friendly and sustainable floorings compared to other flooring products. Each type of flooring, whether it is recycled, synthetic, or natural all can contribute to Green Star points to be able to be used in Green Star or NABERS projects.

Rubber flooring has been at the Old Parliament house in Canberra now for over 60 years. The rubber flooring on the aero bridges at Brisbane Airport has been there over 25 years. Most of our range of rubber flooring products have a guarantee of 10 years but expected to last 15 to 20 years at least.

Each product in our range can be added to the Office Interiors V1 Green Star spread sheet. We will attached a few in the files section, but we can produce them for designers and architects for their projects.

Our most popular product, is the high quality French Dalsouple natural rubber flooring has one of the lowest VOC's on the market. Many cheaper floorings such as some PVC's have 'offgassing' and can use ingredients that are considered carcinogenic.

There was a study done by Suzanne Barnes from the USA, comparing the life cycle of rubber flooring with carpet, lino and vinyl. She found that although rubber flooring is expensive to start with, after 15 years it ends up being much more economical. Rubber requires less maintenance and can be recycled at the end of its life.

See her article Rubber Flooring: Value and Beauty for the Long Term

It is assumed that vinyl and lino are being thrown in landfill in Australia and we can't find any evidence of any reycling at the end of its life.(Please let us know if there is anyone doing this, as we will update our records).

We have voluntary product stewardship and will take back the rubber at the end of its life and recycle it. There are companies in each city that recycle rubber and rubber crumb.

 

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Testimonials

The All Blacks have had Tuflex in their No.1 Changing room for 15 years now. 20th Dec 2006 "10 years ago, Eden Park decided to renovate their main changing rooms at the Park. I chose Tuflex Rubber flooring to be installed in our No.1 changing room and carpet in the No.2 changing room. To this day, the Tuflex rubber flooring still looks like new and the carpet in t...Read More

Bruce Hanvey, Eden Park
Property Manager

WHO WE ARE

We have been supplying rubber flooring to Australia and New Zealand for over 20 years. Our first product was Tuflex recycled rubber floor tiles. Since, then we have added the highest quality products to our range so we believe we cover most types of installations from Education, Health, Offices, Retail, Sports and domestic.

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ABN# 47435503966
Chirnside Park VIC 3116
CEO: Murray Gardner
Mobile: 0423 621 692
Ph: (03) 9726 8899

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