Tessera tufted carpet tiles are renowned for their aesthetic styling and outstanding performance in the most demanding heavy traffic environments. Tessera carpet tiles are comfortable, durable and noise reducing.
Forbo offers Tessera carpet tiles in various constructions; loop pile, microtuft pile, cut pile, cut & loop pile and random lay.batchless. For each construction we offer various designs. Great design possibilities for every area of your building!
Modularity with carpet tiles
Today’s modern office environments with open office systems are designed for flexibility to accommodate frequent layout changes. A modular floor can be quickly adapted to new requirements thereby reducing the cost of reorganization.
Discover the advantages of modular carpet ties:
• Where carpet tiles are installed, telephone, electrical and other underfloor systems remain easily accessible for changes to be made.
• The designs are color co-ordinated for maximum design flexibility
• Increased speed of installation
• Installation wastage is reduced
• Damaged or soiled tiles can be replaced
• Wear rotation to extend flooring lifespan
• Renovation with minimal disruption
• Compatibility with access systems
With all this flexibility, we’re sure that whatever the specification, whatever the budget, you’ll find exactly what you need in our carpet tile portfolio.
Our Tessera carpet tiles are designed and manufactured with different pile constructions to give specific aesthetic and performance benefits.
Loop pile
Carpet tiles with a standard loop pile construction are designed to maintain their good looks in the most demanding heavy traffic areas of buildings, such as corridors and reception areas. Textured loop pile tiles offer distinctive in-built texture and contemporary styling coupled with a robust and durable construction.
Our Loop pile tile collections are Tessera Accord, Basis Pro, Barcode, Chroma, Cloudscape, Create Space 1, Diffusion, Harmony, Infused, Inline, Layout & Outline and Nexus.
Tessera Strukur 1 and Tessera Struktur 2 have a microtuft pile construction, which is a loop pile with a very tight low level construction, creating a durable authentic flatweave appearance.
Cut & loop pile
Cut and loop pile tiles feature a clever hybrid construction that offers all the robustness of a conventional loop pile product but with the superior aesthetics and more luxurious feel of a cut pile carpet tile.
Our Tessera Cut & loop pile collections are Tessera Contour and Tessera Perspective.
To prove the eco-friendliness of our carpet tile products, Forbo uses several assessments. The first is the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) technique resulting in an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD). This declaration, which is transparent and third-party verified, is based on a technique to assess environmental impacts associated with all the stages of a product's life from raw material extraction through materials processing, manufacture, distribution, use, repair and maintenance, to ultimate disposal or recycling.
This technique takes all the following aspects into account: environmental impact of raw material acquisition, energy use and efficiency, content of materials and chemical substances, emissions to air, soil and water and waste generation.
View the EPDs of our Carpet Tile products
GUT Label
Forbo Flooring carpet tiles have received the GUT label. This means all Tessera ranges have passed the latest and severe testing on chemicals and emissions to ensure consumers safety.
Download more information about the GUT label
View the GUT certificates of our Carpet Tile products
Our Tessera carpet tiles are not only synonymous with quality, we are always looking for ways to improve our production processes and product constructions to make our tiles more sustainable.
50% Recycled content
By challenging the way tufted carpet tiles are made, our UK-produced Tessera tiles now boast over 50% recycled content.
Reduced tile waste by 80%
We use innovative ultrasonic blades to cut our carpet tiles, which reduces tile waste by 80% compared to the standard technique. And our new extruder creates a closed loop process, ensuring that the little waste we generate is recycled back into the product.
Reduced amount of virgin materials
We are reducing the amount of virgin materials we use. For example, instead of throwing away yarn ends, we rewind them and tuft them into our Tessera range. We even have several ranges made with up to 100% ECONYL® regenerated yarn.
Quick and easy to clean
Our carpet tiles are quick and easy to clean using a system called Dry Fusion, which uses heat, a little water and natural, organic cleaners. So you can use less water and fewer chemicals without compromising appearance.
Reduced fitting waste
Following Green Design principles, our innovative random-lay carpet tiles reduce fitting waste to less than 2%. And any Tessera fitting waste can be collected for recycling at our plant near Preston, Lancashire, where it is processed back into new carpet tiles.
Carpet recycling UK
As a founder member of Carpet recycling UK, we are also working to ensure that at the end of life our carpet tiles can be recycled or reused.
Forbo supports professionals who work with BIM by offering free high quality BIM objects for most flooring products in our portfolio.
You can download the BIM objects from the Forbo page on the BIM Object platform or by clicking on the collection of your choice below.
