Circular Building Solutions Ltd (CBS), specialists in flooring designed for disassembly, has announced a new collaboration with Welltek and its reuse division Encore by Design, reinforcing the critical role installation methods play in enabling carpet tile reuse.
The partnership brings together reversible, adhesive-free installation systems with advanced carpet tile reconditioning services to keep high-quality flooring in circulation for longer.
Flooring Designed for the Next Life
Through Encore by Design, Welltek promote sustainable and responsible management of workplace furniture and finishes through reuse, repair and redesign.
Encore has already given new life to thousands of chairs, desks and carpet tiles. By aligning with a design-for-disassembly approach, it recognises that how a carpet tile is installed often dictates whether it can be reused.
Traditional wet adhesives can contaminate tiles and damage subfloors, often making clean uplift impossible. As a result, otherwise serviceable flooring is frequently downcycled or sent to landfill.
Image & video credit: Encore by Design
Circular Building Solutions manufactures and markets a range of reversible, detachable fixing systems designed to securely install floor coverings without permanent adhesives.
The system is used and/or approved by 16 major flooring manufacturers including Shaw Contract, Ege Carpets and Desso, and allows for fast, simple installation and damage-free removal.
Flooring can be uplifted cleanly and subfloors remain protected, dramatically improving reuse potential and saving on the embodied carbon associated with new materials.
The range includes IOBAC MagTabs® for use on magnetically receptive sub-floors such as raised access flooring and IOBAC Tab-It®, CBS 1D-Tab™ and CBS LE-Tab™ for use on most other common sub-floors including plywood, concrete and as an overlay system over existing flooring.
Giving Quality Carpet A Second Life
Image & video credit: Encore by Design
Encore by Design’s professional carpet tile reconditioning service restores used tiles to “like new” condition using Europe’s only water-tunnel cleaning system, capable of processing 80-100 sqm per hour. The advanced deep-cleaning process removes embedded dirt, stains and allergens, as well as indentations from furniture and partitions.
On average, 40-50% of uplifted carpet tiles can be diverted from landfill, saving both cost and embodied carbon, with an estimated 8kg of CO₂ saved per m² of reused carpet installed.
Encore’s central hub holds approximately 60,000 sqm of carpet tiles in stock at any time, across leading global brands. Each reusable tile is quality-checked, catalogued online and prepared for redeployment, ready to be installed adhesive-free for its second life.
Flooring Installation as a Circular Enabler
Ian Spreadbrough, Co-founder and Director at Circular Building Solutions Ltd, commented:
“Specifying for reuse starts with installation. If a product cannot be removed cleanly, its second life is immediately compromised.
Designing for disassembly protects material value and makes circularity commercially viable. Working with Welltek means that we avoid repeating history so that reused tiles can be installed adhesive-free for another life in the future.”
A spokesperson for Welltek added:
“Our Encore business is built on extending product lifecycles and reducing harmful landfill waste. Working with Circular Building Solutions strengthens that mission by ensuring carpet tiles are installed in a way that allows them to be more easily recovered, restored and reused at scale.”
Closing the Flooring Loop
With hundreds of thousands of tonnes of carpet waste generated annually in the UK alone, the need to move to circular flooring systems has never been more urgent.
By aligning specification, installation and reconditioning, Circular Building Solutions and Welltek are demonstrating how collaboration across the value chain can transform carpet tiles from disposable finishes into recoverable assets.
Image & video credit: Encore by Design
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