Opening up New Markets and Achieving Corporate Objectives with LCA Interface: Market Development • TacTiles® are an innovative, sustainable product that instantly opened up a new market – more than 40 million square meters of TacTiles® have been installed since 2006. • MicrotuftTM is a new product developed to meet the same quality criteria as its predecessor but which uses around 50% less yarn. With 13.2% of sales in Europe, MicrotuftTM is one of Interface’s fastest-growing product lines. Interface: Cost Development • Energy use during production has been cut by 40%, and yarn use per unit is down by 12% (in both cases, since 1996). • 43% of the raw materials used have been replaced by biodegradable or even recycled alternatives. • All the measures have delivered total annual cost

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