GREENSTAR INFO

DalNaturel natural rubber flooring is considered one of the most sustainable flooring products and can contribute to Greenstar points for Office Interiors or NABERS ratings for indoor air quality. DalNaturel has now been installed on many Greenstar buildings in Australia, such as 6-star Macquarie Bank Sydney, 5-star Fairfax Media House Melbourne and 6-star The Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra.

Download the Office Interiors excel spreadsheet which shows points for DalNaturel for Greenstar.

Dalsouple is listed on Ecospecifer, the website that lists only sustainable, environmentally friendly products, click here

 DalNaturel has been tested to have extremely low VOC's and qualify below the standard emissions. (see test page). The latest NABERS rating considers indoor air quality for offices and this is why many deisgners and architects are moving away from using some vinyls (which have plasticers and sometimes toxins).

Some young people do not realise that there is actually a rubber tree. The latex (sap) that is tapped from the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), is processed into sheet rubber and natural clay particles added to manufacture the Dalsouple natural floor tiles. The rubber trees last until they are about 30 years old then they are chopped down and the timber is used for fuel or other uses. New rubber trees then replace the old plantations. The rubber used in Dalsouple tiles is high quality Malaysian Rubber that is bought as a commodity on the open market, then shipped to France. The natural china clays come from the UK.

If you compare this to Lino, the many ingreadients used to make lino come from a large amount of areas all over the world.

We have product stewardship, where we will take back the rubber after its natural life and recycle it. We do not want the rubber to end up as landfill as with some other flooring products such as vinyl and lino. At present time, there is little evidence of any company in Australia recycling lino or vinyl after it has been installed and so it just ends up as landfill. There are companies in Australia that will take the rubber and recycle it. Rubber can be recycled over and over again.
Please click here to download the standard Product Stewardship letter we have but we can adapt it for each individual project.

Dalsouple® rubber flooring's warranty is for 10 years but expected to last 15 to 20 years at least.

DalMagnetic rubber tiles have a flexible magnetised backing designed for use on metallic access panels.

CARBON NEUTRAL OR CARBON POSTIVE?

Dalsouple DalNaturel was installed in the Carbon Neutral Building at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark where they held the Climate Change Summit. Click here

We use VIP Logistics for sea freighting and this is the cheapest way to get Dalsouple to Australia. We can now co-load smaller domestic shipments with our larger shipments so the customer can save money.

We use Qantas Couriers for air freight and the cargo travels on the same plane as passenger planes. There wil be no carbon tax on international aviation fuel so this will not affect our importing.

As an Australian company, we support Earth Hour.

 Future developments- to have 'wheelie bins' at each installation so that all scrap rubber can be taken and recycled, or cut up and used for samples.