TCNA and Members Collaborate on Material Ingredient Transparency

Tile Council of North America (TCNA), the trade association representing producers of ceramic tile, tile installation materials, and related products in North America, announced a transformative collaboration to provide industry-wide material ingredient transparency. This collaboration, covering the ingredients from which ceramic tile and cementitious grouts and mortars are made, will produce a Material Ingredient Guide that includes Certified GreenScreen Assessments of at least thirty of the raw materials most commonly used by the North American tile industry.

Existing programs for material ingredient disclosure, such as the Health Product Declaration and the Declare Label, already provide vehicles for individual manufacturers to report what goes into their products. Building on these efforts, the North American ceramic tile industry's Material Ingredient Guide will serve as a unified source to better understand the raw materials regularly used by the ceramic tile industry.