Tennant Company, a world leader in designing, manufacturing and marketing solutions that help create a cleaner, safer, healthier world, announces the launch of the floor care industry’s first known sustainable urethane floor coatings that are 50 percent soy plant-based and specifically designed for manufacturing, industrial and warehousing facilities. Eco-ITS™ coatings are bio-based urethane floor coverings made using a 95 percent plant-based BiOH^® polyol supplied under an exclusive agreement with Cargill.

Tennant’s Eco-ITS, which protects floors and offers a sustainable coating application that improves productivity and minimizes shutdowns, offers:
 

• Durability – Similar protection and performance as Tennant’s WearGuard™ technology, which has millions of square feet of coatings applied worldwide

•  Sustainability – An environmentally friendly solution using up to 50 percent plant-based renewable technology

• Low VOCs – With just 21 g/L VOCs (clear) and 23-46 g/L VOCs (color), can be used even where low VOCs are required by law
   
• LEED^® Credit Availability – LEED Green Building Certification Program credits for Indoor Environmental Quality (4.2—Low-Emitting Materials, Paints and Coatings) and Materials and Resources (6.0—Rapidly Renewable Materials)

• Professional Appearance – Available in clear or a variety of colors and in either gloss or satin finish

• · Versatility – With combined durability and sustainability, can be used in virtually any type of facility that benefits from floor coatings

 
“We’re committed to formulating products that not only help our customers create cleaner facilities but that also help meet their sustainability goals,” says Mickey Gubman, Director of Coating Technologies for Tennant Company. “Eco-ITS offers superior durability while utilizing renewable resources. We believe facility and sustainability managers will benefit from the use of a bio-based polyol in our Eco-ITS™ gloss and satin urethane coatings.”