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Lowe’s goes green with Elida Recycled Glass

In June of 2010, more than 1500 Lowe’s stores (LOW) around the country started offering 4 new in stock glass mosaic items from Elida Glass.

The 4 items are from the Elida Recycled Glass collection. The sheet size of the glass is 12″x12″. These mosaics are suitable for indoor and outdoor use.

According to Albert Claramonte Surfaces president, “safeguarding our environment is not an abstract concept for Elida, it is a living reality. Elida Glass, (a division of Surfaces), has made a real commitment to the development of recycled products to further the cause of sustainability in architectural design products.”

These mosaics are manufactured out of 100% post consumer automobile windshields, and we have thoroughly tested these products assuring that they can be used for all mosaic uses and applications.

In addition to the 4 in stock items at Lowe’s nationwide, Lowe’s e-commerce website offers over 100 different colors and finishes of the Elida Recycled glass collection via a special order program.

To learn more about our Recycled Glass Collection go to: http://www.surfaces.net/products/glass-mosaic/recycled-glass/
To learn more about Lowe’s go to: http://www.lowes.com/

Surfaces App in the press again.

Once again the Surfaces App is featured in the national press, the App appeared in the June/2010 issue of Architectural Products magazine. In the article titled, Handy Tools for Mobile Professionals, our App is one of 3 suggested for architects and designers.

“For us, this is yet another confirmation that we made a great App. Surfaces is constantly finding ways on how to expand the reaches of the tile industry with innovative ideas and products.” said Albert Claramonte, Surfaces’ president and one of the minds behind the Surfaces App.

The Surfaces App is available for free on the App Store.

To read the article click here and go to page 92.

Surfaces at Coverings 2010

During the last week of April, Surfaces was at Coverings 2010 show in Orlando Florida. During the 4-day exhibition we had some great meetings.

The show was very exciting for us to help establish some strategic partnerships and also present some of our latest innovative products that we will be launching to the market during the next few months.

The show also offered some surprises for us; we saw our product, Elida’s White Ice, installed at the Rooms Alive booth. Marc Thee, a well-known celebrity designer, chose White Ice for his booth. This was the debut of Rooms Alive to the flooring industry.

The booth received dozens and dozens of compliments during the exhibition and helped prove Elida’s White Ice is perfect for most any application, including high traffic areas.

The White Ice installation was made by Universal Tile.

You can learn more about Rooms Alive at http://ww.roomsalive.com and about Elida’s White Ice at http://www.surfaces.net/products/tiles/white-ice/

Offer of the week

New week, new offer

This offer is valid until out of stock or 04/30/2010.

In Stock Products for Limited Time Offer

 
This offer is valid until out of stock or 04/30/2010.

Elida Art at Tile Magazine

Surfaces is very proud to have our product, White Ice Tile, featured in the most recent Product Showcase Page of Tile Magazine, issued for Jan/Feb 2010. Please see article reproduction below

    
(The Elida Art text has been enlarged for better reading proposes)

2010 and Beyond

Over the last few months, Surfaces has been working on many new products and features that create amazing opportunities and some very cool tools for our customers. We’ve updated our re-designed website, launched in 2009, to offer more information on products that’s extremely useful to clients. Surfaces also created and released the first-ever seen before iPhone App in the tile industry, paving the way for to modernizing our trends and goals. Recent product enhancements include the White Ice tile collection, a cool new look and very attractive product, combining crystallized glass over porcelain.

We are all excited to see all this hard work coming together and want to share it with the people that matter the most to us, the customers that purchase our products, you make the difference to us.

On the left image you can see White Ice Tile, from Surfaces, featured in a recent issue of Tile Magazine. To the right, Surfaces iPhone App is featured on a Times Square Electronic Billboard New York City.

Surfaces would like to thank all of you again for your support and trust in both our products and company. We look forward to working with you in 2010 to create excellent opportunities, offer fantastic products, and stay with us on the cutting-edge of tile industry innovation!

Thank you, we appreciate your business.

Team Surfaces

Reasons to use Glass Mosaic Tiles

Many are the reasons to choose glass mosaic tile. You can choose it based on the versatility of uses, the beauty of color and textures, the durability and resistance of the material or because you want to reduce the carbon footprint in your project. All these qualities are present in glass mosaic. That why the glass mosaic category has been taking the architecture and design communities by storm.

“Glass mosaic tile is versatile. It makes perfect sense. Most of us know that glass is one of the most ancient materials used by mankind. The first geologic glass, obsidian, was initially used by man thousands of years ago to form knives, arrow tips and jewelry. Man-made glass objects were first reported in the Mesopotamian region as early as 4500 B.C., and glass objects dating as old as 3000 B.C. have also been found in Egypt. There is no question that glass is beautiful, durable and incredibly easy to maintain. So why not combine one of the oldest materials on earth with a design category that is exploding in growth?”

From a design perspective, glass mosaic tile is recreating design possibilities and bringing tile to a new level of imagination. Glass mosaic tile is fresh, colorful and innovative. It is impervious to water and other liquids and is a non-conductor of electricity. It will not absorb anything to which it is exposed, making it extremely easy to clean. They have a variety of stimulating finishes and textures that provide an endless array of decor options, resulting in limitless design potential. Finishes such as frosting, sandblasting, etched, paintbrush style, semi-opaque and, of course, the smooth glass finish, are a few of the most popular in today’s marketplace.

Glass mosaics are also offered in different sizes, from small to tiny mesh-mounted mosaic, to standard small and large format wall and floor tiles.

Glass mosaics can be used virtually anywhere on a project, and depending on the type of glass, it can even be used on floors, countertops, backsplashes, pools and more. Not only are the design possibilities unlimited with glass tile, but the ease of care and maintenance they provide gives designers confidence that they are specifying a product that will look the same as the day it was installed while retaining its natural beauty for years to come.

Today, very few food-courts in retail malls do not have some storefront or fountain adorned with stunning glass mosaics. Glass mosaics are common to many hi-end kitchens, pools and bathroom projects. Clearly, because of the hygienic properties of glass tile, the material is ideal for any installation where water is present. We’ve seen glass mosaics, for example, used in retail applications on an increasing basis, for the past 20 years.

Glass mosaic tile applications are works of art. They are easy to clean. They are easy to install and add brightness and color to any environment.

Talking about environment, glass mosaic tiles have inherent qualities that help you to help the planet. Many glass mosaic tiles are made using recycled, post-consumed glass. To be easy to clean, glass mosaics also help you to reduce your consumption of water and other cleaning products.

Glass mosaics also does not emit VOC’s or toxins into the indoor environment and is allergen free because it does not support the growth of mold, mildew and bacteria.

These are some of the main reasons why glass mosaics are always a great choice in any kind of project. Given the facts, glass mosaic tiles are a perfect fit for your next construction or remodeling projects.

Based on Ron Treister’s text “Glass tile offer desing flair in various retail settings” published in the Retail Construction Magazine (mar/apr 2008)

New month and new point-of-sale packaging

Miami, FL – October, 30. November is knocking on the door and so is the new Elida Glass point-of-sale packaging. Surfaces just received the first of many containers containing Elida Boxes with Blister Wrapped Packaging and is very excited to see the hard work put into changing the box layout and packaging come true!

We believe these changes will not only make the product more attractive in stores, but also more practical for the final customer. Now each glass sheet is packaged individually with protection from a cardboard backer and plastic wrapping. On the backside of the cardboard backer you can also find information and recommendations about installation both in English and Spanish. We believe this is perfect for the DIY customers and also very helpful for the retailers, making the Elida Glass products easy to organize and display in stores.

Now, just choose the colors you want by visiting the Elida Glass link in our website, we are awaiting your order!

If you need more information about this products or how to place one order, please contact or call us (305) 372 9787.

Best regards.

Team Surfaces.