Kairn - Stone-look floor and wall tiles for interiors and exteriors
Novoceram, a French ceramics manufacturer since 1863, is presenting a collection of body-coloured porcelain stoneware tiles for interiors and exteriors featuring Portland stone.
Kairn is a collection of porcelain tiles by Novoceram, inspired by Portland stone. This limestone native to the United Kingdom has shaped centuries of architecture, leaving its mark on prestigious buildings such as St Paul’s Cathedral in London, the façade of Buckingham Palace and the United Nations headquarters in New York.
Novoceram’s interpretation favoured the counter-grain cut, which restores the most elegant and recognisable appearance of the original stone, with its wealth of detail and typical variety of graphics running across its surface.
The compact and uniform grain of the Portland stone can be found in all the colour declinations of Kairn: Natural, which faithfully reproduces the warm grey shade of the original material; Gris, which is inspired by the cement shade to reinvent a darker and more modern version; and finally Sable, a proposal with warmer tones.
Kairn is available in 9.0 thickness in sizes 120×120, 60×120, 80×80, 60×60 and 30×60 with R10 – B finish. For outdoor use, the range is completed by the sizes 60×120 Outdoor Plus, 80×80 Outdoor Plus and 60×60 Outdoor Plus in 20 mm thickness with structured finish and R11 – C non-slip characteristics. The colours available for these formats are Natural and Sable.
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OUR CERTIFICATIONS
INTENDED USE: Floor and wall tiles for indoor and outdoor use
TECHNOLOGY: Coloured in body porcelain stoneware
COLOURS: Gris, Natural, Sable
TILE SIZES: 120×120 cm , 60×120 cm , 80×80 cm , 60×60 cm , 30×60 cm , 10×60 cm , Mosaic 5×5 cm
FINISH: Smooth and structured, non-slip
DECORATION AND SPECIAL PIECES: Baseboard, corner step, special pieces for gardens and swimming pools
OUR CERTIFICATIONS
– ISO EN 9001: norm that sets out the requirements related to the company’s quality management system that is part of a continual improvement at all levels which include: customer relations, willingness to communicate, internal organisation, relations with suppliers and production processes.
– ISO EN 14001 : norm that sets out the requirements related to the environmental management system, based on environmental commitment, on strict standards and increasingly ambitious goals that the company has implemented to control and reduce its impact on the environment and to improve its performance continuously.
– ISO EN 50001 : norm that sets out the requirements related to energy management systems. This certification, driven by the wish to better control and optimise energy consumption, is the logical continuation of a continual improvement approach and an environmental commitment.
PRODUCT CERTIFICATIONS
– Indoor emissions: index which measures emissions of volatile substances posing a risk of inhalation toxicity. All our tiles are assigned A +, – the best note in this classification. Furthermore, as they do not contain Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), they even outperform all the requirements of the A+ classification.
– Novoceram products are involved in obtaining various ecological certifications for the construction industry such as the American certification, LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design). Novoceram has also commissioned the PEF (Environmental Performance Footprint) and EPD (Environmental Product Declaration) of its products, which indicate the potential environmental impact of a product throughout its entire life cycle.
