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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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