2024 product innovation awards
ODE TO NATIONAL PARKS
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JUDGE’S COMMENT: This is another beautiful product with great opportunities for use. I am excited to discover this collection.
Surfaces
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Drawing inspiration from America’s national parks, Móz Designs presents six new colorways for its Patina Collection. Taking hues from locations like Yellowstone, Zion and Olympic National Park, the colors feature blue steel, vibrant corten, muted green, aged concrete and rubbed bronze. Well suited for covers, room dividers, and dimensional walls and ceilings, the surfaces can be enhanced with laser cuts, engravings, or a corrugated metal style. Móz Designs, Patina Collection mozdesigns.com
REVOLUTIONIZING RECYCLING IN TRANSLUCENT MATERIALS
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JUDGE’S COMMENT: I appreciate the transparency here and attempt at a better product with more recycled content.
ogy, 3form was able to boost the recycled content in their Textures series from 40% to 100% without sacrificing aesthetic value, durability or performance. Available in 21 patterns, the translucent resin material plays with light and shadow and comes in a variety of styles ranging from modern to Art Deco. The advanced molecular recycling technology breaks down the plastics’ complex polymers into simple molecules which are then used to create new clear materials. 3Form, 100% Recycled Textures 3-form.com
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BEAUTY OF STONE IN FELT
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JUDGE’S COMMENT: This product is due for recognition for sustainability. While the application is essentially a printing process, that process is done sustainably and expands the opportunities to use an already highly sustainable base material.
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FROM BOTTLES TO WALL CLADDING
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JUDGE’S COMMENT: I appreciate the Red List free quality of this product, with transparency documentation, and the evolution away from PVC for this product type.
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has expanded its Textures finish family—previously a suite of eight wood Turf Textures—to offer new Stone Textures. Emulating the dynamic veining and intricate details of natural stone, the surfaces bring biophilia to commercial interiors, without sacrificing the acoustic qualities of a space. Stone Textures come in marble, travertine and granite in 31 colorways, digitally printed on high-performance felt.
Dubbed the first wall protection product with recycled content from post-consumer PET bottles or foodgrade single-use plastics, Acrovyn contains up to 50% post-consumer recycled content. Manufactured from PETG resin, a resin that contains shredded single-use PET plastic, the PETG resin pellets are then mixed with colorants and laminated to create numerous Acrovyn sheet colorways. This option is currently available on select woodgrains, brushed metals, and sheet-based products.
Turf, Stone Textures turf.design
Construction Specialties, Acrovyn with Recycled Content c-sgroup.com
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