EcoWorx® NT Tile

Backing with Environmental Advantage

All of our high-performance EcoWorx carpet backings offer signiﬁcant environmental advantages:

- Designed to be safe and sustainable, EcoWorx provides ingredient transparency through Cradle to Cradle Certification™ at the Silver Level and other measures, including Health Product Declarations and Declare Registration.
- Uses 40% less energy to produce than traditional carpet tile.
- Weighs 40% less than traditional carpet tile – making it more efﬁcient to transport and easier to install.
- This product can be recycled*.
- Low VOCs – meeting the requirements for Green Label Plus certiﬁcation.
- All EcoWorx tile products are and GECA certified and achieve a Green Star ‘Level A’ product rating according to the Green Building Council of Australia.
- High performance sustainability at no additional cost.
- Environmental guarantee for free reclamation & recycling.

Guaranteed reclamation and recycling

EcoWorx products are backed with an Environmental Guarantee. It’s our way of saying, “We want it back.”

Australia & New Zealand Guarantee: Shaw will transport and recycle EcoWorx tile or EcoWorx broadloom carpet at no cost to you. Carpet recycling EcoWorx is easy and hassle-free, making it easy for you to recycle your used carpet, saving valuable time and money on landfill fees.

Performance and Speciﬁcations

All EcoWorx products offer a lifetime commercial warranty against edge ravel, zippering, delamination, and moisture degradation to ensure product integrity throughout their entire use.

When Shaw Contract Group introduced EcoWorx tile in 1999, it set a new standard for carpet tile performance. EcoWorx tile is the strongest, most durable tile backing with five times the tensile strength, eight times the tear strength and two times the delamination strength of traditional PVC-backed tiles.

Within ﬁve years of its introduction, customers self-selected EcoWorx technology as its preferred backing of choice.

Extending this durable and sustainable backing to the broadloom market, Shaw Contract Group now offers three high-performance EcoWorx products to meet your every need: EcoWorx tile, EcoWorx broadloom and EcoWorx performance broadloom.

Backing Description 100% thermoplastic polyolefin compound with a high performance precoat and a reinforcing layer

Backing Process 5-step process:

1. High performance precoat for maximum tuft bind
2. Thermoplastic laminate for superior delamination strength
3. Fiberglass reinforcement for unmatched stability
4. Final thermoplastic layer for added stability
5. Die-cut into carpet tiles

Primary Backing Synthetic

Stabilizer Fiberglass mat

Average Weight 2644.65 g/m² (75 oz/yd²)

Dimensions 60.96 cm x 60.96 cm (standard) (24” x 24”); optional sizes available

Ecoworx Modular Tile Backing – Full Specification Sheet

Case Study - Shaw Contract Group

The recently completed Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in north-east Melbourne is a holistically responsive design solution to the varied and intricate facets of cancer care.
Jackson Architecture and McConnel Smith & Johnson — wanted to provide a healthy, productive, safe and healing environment for patients, their families and staff from the ground up.

What our clients say about us

Clients say it’s GECA or nothing. If you don’t have GECA certification it’s a negative. GECA certification is a priority for Haworth.

John Stamoulos

HAWORTH

GECA is seen by major clients across Australia and internationally to be a credible organisation that provides certification to forward thinking companies that seek to maintain and further environmental standards. Envirofluid is glad to be associated with the GECA label”.

Lydia Ohlmeyer, Marketing and Operations Manager

ENVIROFLUID

Being an environmentally aware business, we needed a way to ensure, adhere and implement sustainably preferable strategies into our business plan. The team at GECA is co-operative and their guidance ensured that we not only complied with green standards, but exceeded them. The process is credible and well-received in the market place and ensures that we are set apart from the not-so-genuine ‘greenwashing’ companies.

Donna McMullen, Director

DIRECT ERGONOMICS

Having GECA certification gives added credibility to our already strong Europlank brand. The GECA ecolabel confirms that Havwoods Europlank has been rigorously assessed for its impact over its life cycle and it is safer for our clients, their families and colleagues. When you choose Havwoods GECA certified Europlank you can have confidence in the environmental and health claims of this product range.

David Hickson, General Manager

HAVWOODS

GBCA Green Star projects are a fantastic way of promoting environmentally aware developments that benefit all parties involved. Jardan is committed to the advertisement of eco-labelling as a means of encouraging sustainable practice,

EcoWorx® NT Tile

Licensee Name

Shaw Contract

Website:

https://www.shawcontract.com/en-au

GECA Ecolabel Standard:

Carpets (GECA 50-2011 v2i)

License(s):

Certificate

Green Star Applicable

Availability:

consumer

commercial

Distribution:

australia

international