Shaw Contract Group (Licence No 3309050)

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Mind the carpet. It will mind you back. The way we live today impacts the world for generations to come. That is why, Shaw Contract Group, a division of Shaw Industries, practice Sustainability Through Innovation™. It is why everything they do, every factory operated and every product created is designed to be "human kind".

Shaw Contract Group created the first PVC-free carpet tile in the industry. The Environmental guarantee for EcoWorx-backed products ensures reclamation and cradle to cradle recycling into new EcoWorx material. More than 68 million kilograms of eco Solution Q fibre is recycled through the Evergreen Nylon Recycling Facility into new nylon each year. Eco Solution Q premium branded nylon with 25% recycled content is Shaw's high performance cradle to cradle answer to traditional carpet fibre. That's the Shaw Green Edge®. Shaw Industries are committed to reducing waste by 90% by 2011, reducing water use by 25% by 2014, reducing energy use by 25% by 2017 and continued development of closed loop technologies.

The Shaw Contract Group product range comprises of more than three hundred broadloom and tile carpet designs. Within this range is a full line of impermeable Health and Aged Care carpets. Backed by the financial resources of Berkshire Hathaway, Shaw Contract Group has the capital to sustain innovation and product improvement through any market conditions. Shaw provides industry leading warranties to protect your flooring investment, sustainable solutions, unmatched service, quality and performance.

Environmental Guarantee: When any EcoWorx backed product has reached the end of its useful life, Shaw will pick it up and recycle it into more EcoWorx. Shaw will take back 500m or greater of EcoWorx material at no cost to you.

Jacobsen Creative Surfaces Ltd is proud to be the New Zealand distributor for the entire Shaw Contract Group carpet tile and broadloom ranges. Jacobsen Creative Surfaces is committed to supplying the most beautiful and sustainable flooring in the world and to helping create a better planet for our customers, our people and our communities in the process.

Below is a list of some of the Shaw products that have the Environmental Choice licence: