Congratulations Armstrong Ceilings and Walls for Winning an ILFI award!

Last week at the Living Product Expo, Armstrong Ceilings and Wall Solutions, one of the first adopters of the Living Product Challenge, with Imperative Certification for TECTUM Ceiling and Wall Panels, received ILFI's Manufacturer Visionary Award for its industry leadership and commitment to transparency and healthy materials.

"Congratulations to all involved," says Daniel Huard, CEO of Global GreenTag Americas, who enjoyed the event on the ground in Nashville. "The Living Product Expo 19 is certainly delivering. Mainstreaming the Healthy Materials Movement is a firm goal of the Living Product Challenge and this is clearly underway. There have been some amazing speakers and exciting announcements made."

The healthy materials movement began with a few intrepid designers, manufacturers and forward-thinking nonprofits asking a simple question: Why can't every place we live, work and play be free of toxic chemicals and harmful materials? Organized by the International Living Future Institute (ILFI), this year's Living Product Expo 2019, October 8-10 in Nashville, celebrates significant milestones and proof points on the journey to that aspirational goal:

Also announced at the event:

• ILFI released an update to Declare, the ingredients label for building products. Declare 2.0 increases usefulness and legibility of the label, aligns with LBC 4.0, and ensures scalability. This year, Kohler, Toxnot, and ILFI announced a partnership to dramatically grow the Declare program by streamlining the process of supply chain data collection, third-party verification and label production. Manufacturers can now quickly adopt Declare across their entire portfolio of products with a more integrated and simplified process.
• Declare has also added embodied carbon to the label, elevating the issue of climate impact of building materials to consumers and specifiers. Armstrong Ceiling and Wall Solutions, Interface, and Superior Essex Communications are participating in the pilot.

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