Finalists Announced for Antron Awards

Kennesaw, GA, February 4, 2008--Invista Performance Surfaces & Materials has announced the finalists for the 23rd Antron carpet fiber Design Award, including the 8th Antron carpet fiber Product Innovation Award and the 4th Antron carpet fiber Sustainable Flooring Performance Award competitions.

The Design Award showcases designers who set new standards of creativity in commercial interior design through the innovative use of carpet.

The finalists include Cohos Evamy integratedesign (Edmonton, Alberta) for PCL Centennial Learning Centre; Corgan Associates (Dallas) for Rent-A-Center Headquarters; Durrant (Minneapolis) for Cue Restaurant & Bar in the Guthrie Theater; EwingCole (Philadelphia) for Liberty Science Center; Gensler (San Francisco) for Allsteel San Francisco Resource Center and Chemoil, Gensler (Seattle) for Office of the Attorney General of Washington State; HOK (Culver City, Calif.) for AOL; Looney Ricks Kiss Architects Inc (Memphis, Tenn.) for OrthoMemphis PC; and Perkins Eastman (New York) for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

The 8th Antron carpet fiber Product Innovation Award honors carpet mills whose products excelled in style, aesthetics, color and usage in the marketplace.

Finalists include Atlas Carpet Mills Inc for Avant Garde Collection and Mod Squad Collection, Lees Carpets for Menswear Collection, Shaw Contract Group for Silk Collection and Tandus for Line Dance.

The 4th Antron carpet fiber Sustainable Flooring Performance Award recognizes sustainable practices through the use of performance-driven flooring choices in commercial applications. Finalists for this award will not be announced in advance of the awards ceremony.

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