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24/09/2020

Happy Heritage Day!

09/07/2020

FloorworX is committed to assisting the country’s project leaders by supplying environmentally friendly floorcoverings, adhesives, accessories and maintenance products which will enable them to design sustainable buildings.

21/06/2020

17/06/2020

Desertification and Drought Day - 17 June 2020

Desertification and Drought Day, until this year known as The World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, is observed every year to promote awareness of international efforts to combat desertification.

Desertification is the degradation of land in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas. It is caused primarily by human activities and climatic variations.

Changes in diet and behavior, such as cutting food waste, buying from local markets and swapping clothes instead of always buying new, can free up land for other uses and lower carbon emissions. Dietary change alone can free up between 80 and 240 million hectares of land.

Did you know:
Food
• One-third of all food produced each year is lost or wasted, while 821 million people are undernourished. This is equivalent to 1.3 billion tonnes of food with a footprint of 1.4 billion hectares, close to 30% of the world’s agricultural land area. This represents a surface larger than Canada and India together.
• According to the World Health Organization, approximately 50 litres of water per person per day is needed to ensure that most basic needs are met while keeping public health risks at a low level. Almost fifty percent of people drinking water from unprotected sources, live in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Feed
• 600 million of the world's poorest households keep livestock as an essential source of income.
• Livestock is the world’s largest user of land resources, with pasture and arable land dedicated to the production of feed representing almost 80% of the total agricultural land. One-third of global arable land is used to grow feed, while 26% of the Earth’s ice-free terrestrial surface is used for grazing.

Fibre
• 20,000 liters of water - The amount of water needed to produce one kilogram of cotton; equivalent to a single t-shirt and a pair of jeans.
• By 2030, it is predicted that the fashion industry will use 35% more land for cotton, forest for cellulosic fibres, and grassland for livestock—altogether over 115 million hectares that could be used to grow crops for an increasing and more demanding population or to preserve forest. Fashion industry uses 93 billion cubic meters of water - enough to meet the consumption needs of 5 million people.

29/05/2020

As a leader in the South African market, FloorworX knows that the regularity of maintenance procedures is an important factor to consider in the improvement of the longevity of flooring.

This is why we offer a vast variety of floorcare products to help maintain your floors.

We offer free technical advice on and off site, because we understand that not everyone can be a flooring specialist but everyone wants to maintain the quality of their floors.

27/05/2020

Floorflex (previously known as Marleyflex); was one of the first locally manufactured products by FloorworX in 1953.

Floorflex is mainly recommended for all institutional, commercial, industrial or residential areas. It has excellent recovery from indentation, thus it is seen in schools, community halls and retail stores.

There is no doubt that with the right combination of colour and design, a pretty ordinary-looking Floorflex tile can turn ordinary rooms into extraordinary spaces.

14/05/2020

What is happening? A world of change The one thing I promised myself as I packed away the last of the shopping and closed the gate to the world as we knew it, was that I would not write an article about ‘coping during lockdown’. There would be, I told myself, thousands of articles written by sel...