Shipping across long distances is not a viable option, as the fiber would quickly dry out, but the two plants being less than three miles apart allows for fast shipping while the fiber is still usable. Irving’s fiber has a high moisture content, a necessary feature in the type of filler Armstrong requires in its tiles. One reason this particular partnership works is proximity. The companies estimate they will divert more than 3,500 tons of fiber waste annually from landfills through the partnership, while lowering costs and making their production processes more efficient. “We did some initial exploration with Irving and quickly realized that the paper was pretty clean.” After touring Irving’s treatment plant, he added, “We were pretty excited, and we thought it would be a viable fiber replacement for our current process.” “Historically, we never used a waste stream like that,” Braden Turner, value stream improvement champion at Armstrong, told TriplePundit.
The Irving employee returned to his former employer at Armstrong and floated the idea of using Irving’s waste in Armstrong’s ceiling tiles. A byproduct of the milling process is fiber that cannot be used in its consumer products. Irving pulps wood at its mills in Canada and ships the dried wood pulp to its Macon plant to make tissues and paper towels. For decades, the company used wood fibers as a bonding element in the tiles, but in the 1980s it switched to using baled recycled paper, like phone books and newsprint. The partnership centers on one of Armstrong’s signature products, ceiling tiles. The partnership represents a synergy between the two companies and came about organically through a former Armstrong employee who later worked at Irving and first floated the idea of using Irving’s waste in Armstrong’s ceiling tiles. Two corporate neighbors come together to reduce environmental impactĮarlier this year, the ceiling and wall solutions company Armstrong World Industries and Irving Consumer Products, a household paper products manufacturer, entered into a partnership at their respective Macon, Georgia, facilities to enable both companies to address their local environmental impacts. But a new hyper-local partnership is looking to move one step closer to increasing the circularity of the buildings and construction industry. But the reality is that buildings comprise around 40 percent of global carbon emissions, much of it embodied in the building materials themselves.
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Please contact us to discuss your industry, we will help you choose the plaster products to complete your next project. Our professional staff will provide advice about which Armstrong products will best suit your needs. Tiles are available with high-absorption acoustic features which are ideal for lecture theatres, auditoriums and noisy offices. We can suspend convex tiles for an impressive look, or hang rectangle tiles for a more streamlined look.Īrmstrong ceiling tiles are suitable for a range of industries, including education, health care, hospitality, sports clubs and venues, manufacturing plants, office buildings, retail shops and even transportation! Armstrong ceiling tiles come in a variety of shapes, colours and materials to create a ceiling you’ll be happy to look up to. The grid and tiles can then be re-hung for ultimate convenience.Ĭommercial ceiling tiles don’t have to be bland.
They can be fitted using exposed or concealed steel grids, which makes hanging the tiles a breeze.īecause they are hung in grids they are an extremely cost-effective solution as they can be dismounted during a renovation or taken with you if you move. Ideal for commercial ceilings and refurbishmentsĪrmstrong ceiling tiles are the ideal choice for new commercial buildings, as well as refurbishments.
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