Debolon Flooring from Mats Inc. was awarded a 2013 Green GOOD DESIGN Award from the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies and the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design. Alongside some of the world’s biggest brands such as Coca Cola, Starbucks and Mercedes-Benz, Debolon ranked in The Green Design 100, which recognizes the top 100 worldwide product designs, architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning projects.

The award was given in recognition of a technological development in which Debalon engineers replaced phthalate plasticizers with domestic sugar beets (citric acid esters) as a natural, sustainable softener in its sheet vinyl flooring, a press release explains.  

“We are thrilled that Debolon has been honored with the Green GOOD DESIGN award for this scientific breakthrough,” says Rich Ruhlin, vice president of healthcare development at Mats Inc. “This latest advancement allows us to offer an incredibly sustainable healthcare flooring solution, while providing the highest quality and unparalleled performance for which Debolon is already known.”

The Green GOOD DESIGN Award recognizes and promotes design innovation, pioneering achievements and the world’s most significant examples of sustainable design. 
 
For this year’s awards, members of The European Center’s International Advisory Committee served as the jury and selected over 100 products, programs, people, government, environmental planning and architecture as outstanding examples of Green Design from hundreds of submissions that were received from around the world.