Product Circularity

Make:  Innovate Regenerative Products

Product stewardship at Mohawk considers the entire life cycle of our products, from material inputs to manufacturing to recyclability at end-of-life. Beyond the need to be sustainable, our products also must meet consumer needs for design, functionality, quality and value.

Mohawk enables sustainable product design by reducing the volume of material inputs required through either bio-based and/or recycled materials, as well as making production processes more efficient.

Derived from renewable resources such as plants, bio-based products play a crucial role in the transition toward a more sustainable and environmentally conscious future. These materials provide a viable alternative to traditional petroleum-based counterparts. Bio-based products extend to using renewable materials, which are derived from replenishable sources.

Not every product category is suited for bio-based content, but our material input strategy extends to other options. For instance, every brand within our portfolio contains products with recycled inputs. In ceramic tile, over 99% of Dal-Tile’s manufactured collections contain recycled or reclaimed materials. Similarly, more than 90% of the wood used in our laminate flooring collections is recovered content from sources such as roadside maintenance and sawmills that would otherwise be burned or sent to landfills, while end-of-life trees from the Malaysian rubber industry become cores for our parquet wood flooring. In carpet, EverStrand^® and EnviroStrand fiber are made from recycled PET plastic bottles using our proprietary Continuum^TM process, averaging almost 6 billion bottles per year during the past decade.