Graboplast, a Hungarian flooring manufacturer has just this month launched a brand new product. By using the latest advances in nanotechnology they have developed a scratch and scuff resistant, hard wearing PVC flooring suitable for sports stadiums and other public spaces.

Having invested heavily in the new technology the company was eager to prove it’s worth. At a recent press conference they demonstrated how it withstood heavy traffic and cigarette butts without any apparent burn marks.

They are so confident in the new flooring that by 2012, they expect that this PVC flooring will account for 75% of its total output.

I expect we will hear a lot more about nanotechnology in the future for flooring and all types of home applications.

Your at the Winter Olympics and all around you is billboards and advertizing – about 200,000-square-feet of the vinyl graphics to be exact. Imagine all that in landfill.

Now image that being made into flooring instead of being waste.

That is what Mannington Commercial thought of – the flooring manufacturer in Calhoun, Georgia is joining with 3M Canada to their vinyl graphics featured at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics into flooring.

Amazingly it will all be incorporated into Mannington’s Premium line of tiles where applications range through education, commercial healthcare and retail.

What a great way to recycle!