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‘An Impressive approach to sustainability’

UICK-STEP’s new Impressive collection technology takes old HDF and turns it into how your choice of laminate flooring
Qand world-first recycling technology raw material to produce new HDF to be can always be a step ahead. Quick-Step
are leading the way in sustainability in the used in laminate floors. Thanks to today’s laminate isn’t just a floor: it’s a future-
flooring industry, says the company. investments, Quick-Step will be able to proof choice.’ 
It continues: ‘With a lifetime warranty, incorporate up to 20% recycled content in its www.quick-step.co.uk
100% waterproof construction and an laminate floors by 2030. This is true floor-
ultra-resistant top-layer, the enduring to-floor recycling in action.’ *Based on internal calculations, not third-party verified.
quality of Quick-Step’s new Impressive and Continues Quick-Step: ‘Quick-Step’s Calculations based on a smartphone battery capacity
of ~12.68Wh. We assume charging isn’t 100% efficient,
Impressive Design laminate floors means responsible approach to making laminate but rather 80%, resulting in 15.85Wh. 1kWh in Belgium
homeowners will probably never have to floors is rooted in a floor that lasts a in 2024 has a CO2 footprint of 0.156kg CO2/kWh. One
worry about replacing their floor, but have lifetime, but should it ever need to be Impressive plank has an area of 0.26sq m and retains
you ever thought, ‘what if’? recycled, it has a way to do that too. So, -2.55kg CO2 (based on -9.74kg CO2/sq m) due to the
wood used in the plank. 2.55kg CO2 / 0.156kg CO2/
‘Quick-Step thinks about this question next time you’re thinking about buying a kWh = 16.34 kWh. 16.34kWh / (0.01585 kWh per
all the time. That’s why it’s taken every new floor ask, ‘what if?’ and think about mobile charge) = 1030
possible step to consider how laminate
floors are made and what happens to
them when it comes time to change.
Through thinking responsibly, Quick-Step
has carved a path for a floor that’s more
sustainable in more ways than one.’
Impressive and Impressive Design,
like every Quick-Step laminate floor, are
made with 80% wood, ‘locking in’ carbon
throughout their life, continues Quick-Step.
‘In fact, just one Impressive plank stores
2.5kg of CO2, that’s the same as charging
a smartphone more than a thousand
times.*
‘The core of laminate is made with a
HDF (high density fibreboard) that features
100% recovered wood. For this, Quick-
Step stays close to its roots and turn
someone’s trash into treasure: recovered
wood is a by-product from sawmills, forest
management processes and roadside
maintenance.’
Adds the company: ‘When it invented the
patented Uniclic joint in 1997, Quick-Step
imagined a world of easy DIY installation
for laminate floors, but Uniclic’s glueless
installation also brought other happy
advantages, many of which are more
appreciated today than ever before.
‘Thanks to Uniclic and Unizip any
damaged planks can easily be replaced New Impressive collection
without having to lift the whole floor. This
repair over replace mentality also extends
to Quick-Step repair kits and easy to follow CFJ’s former editor, Alan Bakalor,
videos: everyone should be able to make
their floor last as long as possible. sadly passes away
‘When the time does come to replace
Impressive or Impressive Design, the T’s with sadness that Kick-Start Publishing announces the
glueless installation means easier Ideath of former CFJ editor Alan Bakalor.
recycling. With click installation there’s no Alan, who hailed from South Africa, was famous in the
contamination to the floor itself, so it can industry for his dry wit and enthusiasm for embracing
controversy for the greater good of CFJ and the flooring
be cleanly (and easily) recovered.
‘Up until now that has been a moot point, industry.
Former Kick-Start CEO John Heath, who started the
as it wasn’t possible to recycle laminate. company with Alan, remembered his late colleague: ‘Alan was one of a kind, a real
However, in another world first, Quick-Step character who brought integrity and experience to his role. He’ll be fondly missed by
has now made it possible to fully recycle his many colleagues through the years.’
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