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Crossville® Creates Echo – an Extraordinary Recycled Glass Tile with a Far-Reaching Green Story
Crossville®, a leader in the market for sustainable tile products, has created Echo Recycled Glass by Crossville® – tile for walls, countertops and floors. Crafted by artisans using centuries-old techniques, Echo contains a recycled content of 10 to 100 percent, depending on color. (Third-party certification pending.)
Designed by one of the industry’s most respected color forecasters, Barbara Schirmeister, the line has a clear, luminescent quality, which is extraordinary for recycled glass. It is available in 15 colors, including white, black and red, as well as soft blues, greens and ambers. It comes in three finishes: clear, iridescent and a sophisticated frosted matte, and in five sizes: 1'' x 1'', 1'' x 3'', 2'' x 2'', 2'' x 4'', plus listellos.
“It’s rare to find the beauty of cast glass in a recycled product,” says Barbara Schirmeister. “Yet, because Echo Recycled Glass by Crossville® is made of cast, translucent glass that is textured front and back, it captures, refracts, bends and twists light in wondrous ways. Specifiers and homeowners will enjoy mixing, matching and blending the colors and finishes to create stunning installations – while knowing that they are using a product that is good for the planet.”
The product’s “green” story does not end there, however, for the development of Echo is both a tribute to the traditional art of glassmaking and a testament to Crossville’s wide-ranging environmental impact; for while Crossville has created an exceptional recycled glass, it has also reinvigorated an historic 1880s manufacturing facility in Ottawa, Illinois: the Peltier Glass Company. Renown for its production of stained glass for Louis Comfort Tiffany, as well as the collectible Peltier Glass Marbles – multi-swirl and character marbles made in the 1920s – the Peltier Glass Company is now creating recycled glass tile for the 21st century.