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HMTX Industries Sets Transparency Standard for Resilient Flooring Industry
HMTX Industries, a family of resilient flooring companies, is an industry leader in luxury vinyl tile (LVT) flooring. With a commitment to sustainability and transparency, taking a multi-pronged approach to sustainability is important to HMTX. Focusing on human health, climate health, social health & equity, ecosystem health, and a circular economy, HMTX is a global leader in setting sustainable business practices.
HMTX embraces efforts towards consumer awareness and transparency to increase credibility in the flooring and vinyl industries. As a result, HMTX leads the resilient flooring industry when it comes to transparency of sustainable components for building materials in residential and commercial markets.
Taking Ownership of Sustainability
At HMTX, sustainability serves as a key pillar for operations and is reflected in the company’s organizational chart. HMTX maintains a chief sustainability and impact officer, who oversees the company’s product authority team. This task force serves as an information clearinghouse and directs how sustainability impacts the global enterprise. The team is involved in various aspects of the product channel: supply chain sustainability, product and social transparency, testing and compliance, innovation, and performance.
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Eliminating Emissions
Teknoflor, an institutional and healthcare-focused brand of HMTX, offers carbon-neutral products to help combat climate change. These carbon-neutral products include Naturescapes HPD and Nature’s Tile & Plank HPD. Teknoflor has achieved carbon-neutral status for these products, in part, through its participation in the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) program by way of Everland. Teknoflor has also gathered embodied carbon data on its other product lines and plans to expand its offering of carbon neutral products.
About HMTX
Created in 2018, HMTX Industries serves as the umbrella for five different brands in the building materials industry. Aspecta focuses on the global commercial contract business, selling primarily to architects and designers. Metroflor is a signature residential and commercial brand, selling to independent, regional distributors. Halstead focuses on big box stores. Teknoflor is focused on institutional healthcare, and retail markets. Vertex is the foundation for HMTX’s international supply chain, selling outside the U.S. in over 35 countries. Each brand shares the core values of sustainability, transparency, impact, and community.
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