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COURTESY OF CROSSVILLE INC.                                                        Grand reappearance. Old bathroom tile


                                                                                                     gets a new look, courtesy of Crossville
                                                                                                     Inc.’s porcelain recycling capability.

                   Crossville, Inc.






                    nstead of  eing tossed into the land ll, discarded porcelain tile gets a


                   second life in homes and offices.


                   Crossville Inc. is a U.S.-owned and operated manufacturer of   and •oor-to-ceiling along the rooms’ wet walls. An estimated 200,000
                   award-winning tile collections for residential and contract   pounds of porcelain material were diverted from land„lls to create
                   applications. The company’s collections are sold through   new tile for this project.
                   traditional distribution nationwide. The company, with    Upon learning of its capabilities to recycle „red porcelain „xtures,
                   manufacturing facilities in Crossville, Tenn., only produces   Crossville launched a recycling partnership with sanitary ware
                   porcelain tile. Crossville, Inc. (https://crossvilleinc.com) is a   manufacturer TOTO USA, thus achieving status as a net consumer
                   wholly owned subsidiary of Curran Group, a privately owned   of waste. The company has since recycled more than 114 million
                   holding company.                                        pounds of „red porcelain waste that would have gone to land„lls.

                            HE JOHN C. Kluczynski Federal Building, designed by
                            Mies van der Rohe in the late 1960s, is an epic Crossville   They’re an Eco-Leader because...
                            project in Chicago: It marks the time the company
                                                                               ■ As the only large-scale tile manufacturer capable of recycling fired
                            determined it could recycle „red porcelain materials that   porcelain, Crossville can recycle previously installed tile harvested from
                   T were previously installed—including porcelain „xtures,     demolitions and tile scraps that result from samples cutting and trimming
                   such as sinks and toilets.                                   during installation. It can also recycle other porcelain items, such as toilets.
                     Crossville was selected as tile     n our practices, processes   ■ Crossville produces its Sustainability Report, the only such report
                   manufacturer for the redesign of   and products, we re       by a tile-only manufacturer in the U.S. This third-party, GRI- and ISO
                   the 45-story building’s 78 public   committed to impro ing   2600-based report meets requirements of LEED V.4 MRc3 Credit.
                   restrooms that hadn’t been up-  the  uilt en ironment and    The report provides a full GRI Index, enabling readers to easily access key
                   dated since 1974. The project re-                            data and details, in adherence with G4 requirements as defined by GRI.
                   quired a portion of existing porce-  e eryday e periences for    ■ All products by Crossville hold Green Squared certification. Green Squared
                   lain tile and all existing porcelain   employees, customers and   is the industry standard developed by the Tile Council of North America
                   „xtures to be recycled to create   partners.  ross ille is the   to denote products that are responsibly manufactured and that hold
                   new porcelain tile. These would                              necessary technical specifications to be certified as green.
                   be installed in the restrooms from   domestic tile industry    ■ Crossville is the first U.S. tile manufacturer to achieve production of large-
                   which the materials had originally   leader in sustaina ility.   format tile on site, manufacturing of tile with certified recycled content,
                   been harvested.               indsey  aldrep,  ice           certification for waste recycling programs, distribution of a complete
                     Ultimately, more than 57,000                               line of large format gauged porcelain tile panels, and designation as a net
                   square feet of recycled tile were   president of mar eting,   consumer of waste in the domestic tile industry.
                   installed in the toilet room •oors    ross ille  nc.

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