Nature-Inspired Designs Benefit Healthcare Industry and Mercy Medical Angels
Mannington Commercial is introducing the Bloom Collection, three coordinating sophisticated styles of high performance heterogeneous sheet designed for healthcare and senior living spaces. As part of the launch, Mannington Commercial is also announcing a partnership with Mercy Medical Angels, a non-profit organization that provides medical transportation to patients in desperate financial need. For every square yard purchased, the company will donate 3 percent of the purchase price to Mercy Medical Angels.
“Although Bloom and our partnership with Mercy Medical Angels had been in the works prior the outbreak of the coronavirus, this initiative takes on a greater sense of relevance right now,” said Ian Campbell, Business Manager, Commercial Sheet. “Resilient sheet products like Bloom are an important flooring surface for hospitals and other healthcare facilities right now. And Mercy Medical Angels’ mission to provide free medical transportation to those who need it is vital — and will continue to be once the pandemic passes.”
The Bloom Collection speaks to our ever-present human instinct to connect with the environment and other living things. The motifs and patterning of the styles were inspired when a designer from the Mannington Design Studio took a quiet spring walk through the woods. The instinctive wish to be close to nature led the designer to contemplate familiar organic forms. The forms were repeated to create mandalas, echoing a spiritual connection with the natural world, and then integrated with comforting textures. The results are three refined styles that help spaces bloom with images that promote healing, relaxation and rejuvenation.
Each new style of Bloom is available in eight colorways, encompassing warm and cool neutrals as well as sophisticated blues and greens:
- Wildflower is a larger-scale design that gathers pressed wildflowers into an abstract, overlapping pattern on an airy, textural background.
- Meander is a smaller-scale design that is more densely layered, with an abstract interpretation of foliage and texture.
- Wellspring is a coordinating textural design that is drawn from the background of the other two styles and also works well alone as a refined, biophilac pattern.
Bloom is available in 6’, 9’ and 12’ widths for ease of installation and less waste. The 6’ width is offered with QuickStix®, a pre-applied adhesive system that eliminates the need for hours of labor. Resilient sheet with QuickStix® also has incredible moisture resistance properties, making it ideal for renovations where downtime has significant cost implications.
The Bloom Collection is designed to contribute to human wellbeing and to a project’s sustainability goals. This heterogeneous sheet has a non-ortho-phthalate construction and is FloorScore Certified. Featuring an industry-wide third-party Type III EPD, the collection may also contribute to LEED credits. The Bloom Collection is engineered to perform in demanding healthcare environments while remaining easy to clean. Quantum Guard Elite®, Mannington Commercial’s industry-leading performance technology, allows this resilient sheet to deliver best-in-class resistance to abrasions, stains and slipping, and is proven to clean better than competitors, with no need for polishing. The Bloom Collection carries a limited 12-year commercial warranty and limited 12-year Quantum Guard Elite® wear warranty. Based in Virginia Beach, Va., Mercy Medical Angels provides transportation to those who require long-distance medical care. The organization provides approximately 17,000 ground or flight trips annually. More information and donation options are at www.mercymedical.org.
Operations Update:
Mannington Commercial Remains Fully Operational to Service Customer Needs During COVID-19
Mannington Commercial announces it remains operational to manufacture and stock flooring material in all product categories. The U.S. manufacturer will remain fully operational in its Georgia, New Jersey and Florida-based carpet, LVT, resilient sheet and rubber manufacturing facilities to continue serving customer needs during these challenging times. Product availability details include:
- Carpet – Six Xpress carpet collections, 16 products in total, with up to 1,000 yards in-stock material ready for shipping in five business days. Two Xpress walk-off collections, five products in total, with up to 500 yards stock material available for shipping next business day. Thousands of yards ready to ship from multiple collections. Four-to-six week lead times on all other products.
- LVT – Multiple LVT constructions are available in-stock for shipping in five business days or less with more than 10,000 SKUs made in the Madison, Ga., facility and available in 20 days or less.
- Resilient Sheet – All heterogeneous and homogeneous sheet products, made at the Salem, N.J., facility, with more than 7 million square feet in stock.
- Rubber – 10 colors of TS wall base are in stock. All TP and TV wall base, moldings, treads and accessories boast a two-week lead time. All rubber products are produced at the company’s Eustis, Fla., and Calhoun, Ga., facilities.
“It is through the efforts and dedication of many Mannington Commercial associates that we have been able to remain operational to service our customer’s needs. The continued health and safety of our associates and customers remains a top priority during this time,” said Tom Pendley, President of Mannington Commercial.
To ensure the safety and well-being of Mannington’s associates and customers, the company has adapted its work environment to comply with all CDC regulations and guidelines, including work-from-home options where possible, social distancing, hand washing and wearing face coverings. All manufacturing facilities have implemented enhanced professional disinfecting and deep cleaning processes.
About Mannington Commercial
Mannington Commercial crafts flooring with purpose. The company offers a full range of products designed to inspire creativity and deliver advanced performance in all types of commercial spaces. Across modular carpet, broadloom, LVT, resilient sheet and rubber, customers receive coordinated solutions to meet their specific goals. The fourth-generation, family-owned company is guided by this dedication to its customers and to making a positive impact on the environment and local communities. More information is available at manningtoncommercial.com.