Product Sustainability
Products with Maximum Recycled Content
To reduce our environmental impact, wherever possible, we develop products using locally sourced raw materials with recycled content. To achieve the greatest environmental benefit, we have used LCA methodologies to prioritise the use of recycled materials to substitute oil based components.
Recycled yarns
Milliken now offers a market-leading range of over 500 design and colour options using Econyl® 100% regenerated nylon, featuring 50% post-industrial and 50% post-consumer recycled content.
Find out more about Econyl® here.
Collections featuring Econyl include
Clerkenwell, Consequence 2.0, Dissident 2.0, Glazed Clay, Light Trails, Naturally Drawn, Out of the Shadows and Urban Collective.
Recycled backing materials
Comfort Plus®, Milliken’s innovative cushion backing, includes 90% recycled polyurethane, providing a light weight backing solution that is not only environmentally sound but also enhances performance in use.
Products That Minimise Waste
Omni®
Omni is a patented design concept that allows Milliken modular carpet patterns to be totally non directional and therefore installed completely randomly on the floor. This reduces installation waste as no pattern matching is required. A typical modular carpet installation averages 4% wastage and a typical broadloom installation averages 10% wastage. With Omni, wastage is estimated at less than 1%. Also, with no directional arrows to follow, Omni carpet is quicker and easier to install, saving installation time and cost.
TractionBack® adhesive-free installation
Optimising face-weight for performance
Products That Maximise Their Useful Life
Comfort Plus® cushion backing
Comfort Plus protects the face of the carpet from the effects of traffic and wear and in doing so can extend the life of the carpet by up to 40%. This allows Milliken to offer carpet collections with impressive 12 and 15 Year Wear Guarantees.
Entrance matting solutions
Carpet is one of the most abused elements of a building and studies show 90% of dirt can be kept off the flooring with effective entrance matting systems. Milliken offers a highly effective system of modular matting solutions designed to provide a primary barrier for dirt entering a building. Not only does this keep the carpet clean, it increases its longevity and improves indoor air quality.