Noveco Surfaces – The New Stone Age

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  • 2024

  • Product
    Hardware and Building

Designed By:

Commissioned By:

Noveco Surfaces

Designed In:

Australia

Imagine a world where discarded waste is transformed into stunning, up to 80% recycled (and 100% recyclable) tiles, benchtops & furniture that give new meaning to the term eco-luxury. Our products aren’t just surfaces; they’re crystalline silica free statements of ingenuity.


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  • CHALLENGE
  • SOLUTION
  • IMPACT
  • MORE
  • Design, build and manufacture a sustainable product that is both safe to use and utilizes the abundance of waste glass created by our society. Create a product that eliminates the health risks of current products that contain silica ensuring a viable continued stream of product for the housing & construction industry for years to come.

  • Noveco created a process that enlists the use of recycled glass (80%) & additives available as base content to create substitutes fora new product with no health impacts. Through research, constant trial and reinvention Noveco were able to create a fully recyclable, sustainable product that meets Construction and Architectural needs. Rigorous testing to satisfy all standards were met over a period of 2 years. Noveco now have a range of products to suit all forms of soon to be banned silica quartz bench & tile solutions. A ”Micro” factory to test and commercially make viable product was created and in operation.

  • Noveco Surfaces is the Australian made solution that governments, builders and developers, unions, building material retailers, and workers are looking for. A solution that supports Australian manufacturing jobs, keeps workers safe and provides a solution to our growing waste issues. Creating products with almost infinite design solutions for the above industry groups.

  • The process developed to create the baseline products can now be further developed to suit complex forms across an expanded product range creating greater commercial opportunities. Including but not limited to tiles, benchtops, furniture, Architectural forms and base construction pieces.