Thursday, July 7th, 2011
JOHNSONITE PRODUCTS RECEIVE ACCOLADES FOR DESIGN, INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC QUALITIES IN FIRST HALF OF 2011
Congratulations to Johnsonite!
Their recent awards and accolades include:
ADEX Design Excellence Awards – Established by Design Journal Magazine, these awards distinguish the most superior product designs on the international market. This year, Johnsonite’s Folio, Metallurgy, Ecolibrium Bio-Based Rubber Wall Base, Space and Contract Plus were all recognized for their design superiority with both Metallurgy and Ecolibrium Rubber Wall Base receiving the Platinum ADEX ranking. The 2011 Awards marks the third consecutive year that a Johnsonite product received the ADEX Platinum award. Johnsonite’s nature-based rubber tile collection Folio and Contract Plus vinyl homogeneous sheet and tile flooring both received the ADEX Silver award in their categories. Space, Johnsonite’s modular resilient flooring system, was awarded ADEX Gold.
2011 Styling Excellence Awards – Sponsored by National Floor Trends magazine, the Styling Excellence Award honors the best, most stylish new products from across the flooring industry. Recipients are selected by Surfaces show attendees, which include distributors, retailers and installers. Johnsonite’s Folio also won the 2011 Styling Excellence Award in the Rubber Flooring category, with its Metallurgy as the runner-up position.
Top 2011 Money-Saving Products – BUILDINGS magazine selected Johnsonite’s iQ products, Optima and Granit, as Top 2011 Money-Saving Products. Finalists were based on the money-saving qualities offered to building owners and facility managers in areas such as energy consumption, water savings, lighting, productivity, maintenance, and more. The winning products are part of a special feature in the magazine’s June 2011 issue.
Floor Covering News Award of Excellence – For the fourth consecutive year, Johnsonite was Floor Covering News’ “Award of Excellence” winner in the Resilient Flooring category, an honor determined by the publication’s readers. Close to 4,000 flooring retailers and distributors, specifiers and service providers voted on which brands they felt provide the overall best experience within each category which included such factors as service, quality, design, field support, marketing support and overall value.
