HARTFORD, CONN.—Mattress Concierge recently completed replacing mattresses for 1,948 hotel rooms, totaling 2,600 mattresses, for Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Conn. As the largest resort casino in North America, Foxwoods offers guests a premier destination resort experience throughout its AAA Four-Diamond hotels. Foxwoods has also been named the Best Casino Outside of Las Vegas in the USA Today’s 10 Best Reader’s Choice Awards. “At Foxwoods we pride ourselves on providing our guests with the ultimate destination experience and knew how important it was that the sleep configuration was as thoughtfully considered as every other resort amenity,” said Chris O’Connell, Vice President of...

WEST CALDWELL, N.J.—MaxLite announces the launch of the M Series product family, which provides tremendous versatility for outdoor lighting applications. M Series is an innovative product that covers three categories with one design solution. It is well suited for design-build, architectural, commercial, value engineering and government projects, as well as some stock and flow markets. The M Series is a modular design and can combine common components to create the exact model needed for various applications. Instead of making changes in the field, the factory can quickly cater the fixture with simple changes to mountings and lenses, without the usual long...

RESTON, VA.—Practice Greenhealth announced Shaw Industries’ commercial brands—Patcraft and Shaw Contract—as their latest Greenhealth Approved suppliers. Their resilient flooring and carpeting product lines are the first flooring solutions to obtain the Greenhealth Approved seal. The seal indicates that products meet specific sustainability criteria and enables health care providers to easily identify environmentally preferred products without having to conduct their own ingredient verification. “We worked closely with the Greenhealth Approved team to qualify these products to take the time-consuming product review process out of health care providers’ hands,” said Executive Vice President Kelley Fain, Shaw Industries commercial division. “We are excited...

INDIANAPOLIS—Carrier introduced its new air monitor, a simple, cost-effective way to monitor the quality of indoor air in almost any room of a house, apartment or office space, and the most recent addition to Carrier’s growing suite of Healthy Homes solutions. As people are more focused on the health of their indoor environments than ever before, it is imperative that they take steps to improve their living and working spaces, including the air they breathe. With a Carrier air monitor, they are one step closer to being more informed about their indoor air quality and determining solutions for creating...

SOLON, OHIO—As a long-trusted provider of resilient flooring solutions, Tarkett introduces a new vinyl composition tile design, available in 45 fresh colorways that bring together style and strength where they’re needed most. Tarkett VCT II is made to withstand heavy traffic and rolling loads, delivering strong performance for demanding spaces. Aligned with the company’s commitment to circular economy, Tarkett VCT is 100 percent recyclable, made with 85 percent limestone, and is phthalate-free to support better indoor air quality. “The new Tarkett VCT II collection is a combination of great design and outstanding value,” said Jason McKee, Senior Product Manager for Tarkett North America....

MIDLAND, MICH.—Dow announced plans for 2022 to launch the world’s first commercially available carbon-neutrality program for silicone materials used for structural glazing, insulating glass, and weather sealing. Selected DOWSIL Materials will include PAS 2060-certified carbon certificates from Dow’s backward integrated siloxane productions and carbon reduction investments. This carbon offset program, whose theme is “Designing with more freedom by engineering less impact,” can help to decrease the environmental impact of buildings and achieve better green building certification ratings. “The commercial introduction of our carbon-neutrality program for DOWSIL Silicones for building facades represents a true evolution in silicone carbon-neutrality,” said Markus Plettau,...

SAN DIEGO—Puradigm, a leading manufacturer of proactive air and surface purification technologies that have been proven to inactivate SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, and the Delta Variant, announced that two studies conducted by the Kansas State University Food Science Institute showed that both ozone and hydrogen peroxide levels produced by the Puradigm Air HVAC 9 Inch Air Purification System pose no risk to building occupants per U.S. safety standards. The Puradigm system tested produced maximum equilibrium concentration of ozone below 0.05ppm whereas safety thresholds established by U.S. regulatory organizations range from 0.05ppm by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for indoor...

CLEVELAND, OHIO—GE Current, a Daintree company, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Hubbell Inc. to acquire Hubbell’s commercial and industrial (C&I) lighting business to create a premier end-to-end lighting solutions business. The Hubbell C&I lighting business, based in Greenville, S.C., is a leading provider of professional lighting, lighting controls and connected lighting. The business offers a comprehensive range of indoor and outdoor lighting products for industrial, commercial, and institutional applications. The Hubbell C&I lighting business has a strong collection of trusted brands including Area Architectural Lighting, Beacon, Litecontrol, Kim, Columbia, Prescolite, Alera, Dual-Lite, Compass, Hubbell Outdoor...

NEW YORK—Prioritizing material innovation, sustainability, cleanability, and stain-resistant technology, Supreen marries cutting-edge woven and coated technology with a proprietary silicone blend to create a complete liquid-barrier textile, reactively repelling liquids and preventing future stains—all without compromising softness, upholstery capability, or the environment. This performance fabric will make its debut at six premier textile booths at BDNY, November 14 to 15, 2021. Combining groundbreaking stain resistance with bleach cleanability and impressive breathability, Supreen exceeds industry standards when it comes to cleanliness, durability, and aesthetics. What Makes Supreen Stand Out? It’s completely liquid-proof. Supreen’s liquid-proof barrier technology makes it impenetrable, protecting it...

SHOREVIEW, MINN.—Environmental Protection recently announced the winning companies in its 2021 New Product of the Year contest. This year’s contest attracted a wide variety of products and services, all created with environmental sustainability in mind. TSI Inc. announced the new AirAssure Indoor Air Quality Monitor has won in the Air Quality and Climate category. “We are thrilled to have our new AirAssure IAQ Monitor recognized in Environmental Protection’s Air Quality space,” said Jacky Schmit, Director of Market Development at TSI. “At TSI, we strive to provide trusted measurement and data analytics solutions that enable our customers to make informed decisions and the AirAssure Indoor Air...