Armstrong Wins Four Adex Awards

Lancaster, PA, May 16, 2000--Armstrong Residential and Commercial Floor Products were awarded four Awards for Design Excellence (ADEX), including two Platinum and two Gold, for products spanning excellence in resilient and laminate designs. The 2005-2006 ADEX Awards from Design Journal Magazine are: Platinum – Natural Creations Luxury Vinyl Tile Platinum – Natural Fusion Luxury Resilient Flooring, Sweet Bamboo Gold – Natures Gallery Laminate Collection Gold – Urban Settings Residential Sheet Vinyl, Cottington ADEX is a prestigious awards program for product design of furnishings marketed through the design trade. Awards are judged on form and function. Design Journal, the international trade publication for interior designers, architects and facility managers, is the sponsor. As a way of recognizing superior product design, Design Journal introduced the Awards for Design Excellence (ADEX) in 1994. Response from manufacturers was immediate as over 100 companies participated in the inaugural event. This year’s ADEX Awards attracted upwards of 1,500 companies submitting thousands of innovative new products. ADEX WINNERS: 1) Platinum – Natural Creations Luxury Vinyl Tile embraces contemporary interiors. Each design was created using research, guidance and feedback from customers in key markets, including retail, healthcare, education and hospitality. The comprehensive line of luxury vinyl tile is integrated and interchangeable. All floors have embossing textures that reflect the surface of natural materials and the stunning, realistic look of real wood or stone--at a fraction of the cost. The collection enables designers to maximize their floor designs by either creating designs within each of the three lines or by integrating visuals, colors and patterns from each. The modularity and sizes of the planks and tiles allow for virtually endless design options…tiles can be wrapped with planks and different size tiles can be mixed or matched. Each has a 20-mil wear layer and UV-cured urethane coating that offers low maintenance options. In addition, the new LVT is color coordinated across all Armstrong lines, including gauge compatibility with Armstrong’s vast vinyl composition tile (VCT) collection. 2) Platinum--Natural Fusion Luxury Resilient Flooring, Sweet Bamboo Natural Fusion is an extensive selection of 35 skus in seven sophisticated designs complemented by a luxurious natural texture. Armstrong’s award-winning MasterWorks Technology has been infused with Variable Texture Technology (VTX), a patent-pending process that delivers a range of realistic textures and gloss, giving each design an incredibly natural feel, unique to its individual character. Armstrong also takes its first-class CleanSweep® surface--long recognized for its exceptional stain resistance--to the next level. New CleanSweep® Plus provides both incomparable stain and scratch resistance. The secret: Polycarbonate-fused aluminum oxide nano-particles, the same polycarbonate material used in bulletproof glass and fighter plane windows, combined with aluminum oxide which has been used successfully to enhance durability in laminate and hardwood floors. The result: A combination that yields improved scratch and wear resistance to ensure the floor’s long life and enduring beauty. The floor’s thickness – 105 mils – also attests to its durability and longevity. Research shows that thick products with thicker wear layers are more durable and have a longer life span. In addition, Armstrong is backing Natural Fusion with a comprehensive lifetime warranty on wear-through and manufacturing defects, and has extended the ToughGuard® warranty to 20 years for rip, tear and gouge protection. Natural Fusion also boasts a superior ability to resist damage caused by dropped objects.

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