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Vetrazzo®
November 6, 2007

Beverly went to the ASID meeting tonight, which was held at Pental Marble & Granite, where they introduced Vetrazzo.
 
Vetrazzo® was invented in 1996 in Berkeley, California - back when "green" was just a color.  It’s beautiful and functional.

A glass scientist working on his PhD, driven by his passion for the environment, gets the idea to recapture the inherent beauty of recycled glass by transforming it into a functionally superior building material. He teams up with a like-minded Bay Area architect and they form a partnership to produce Vetrazzo in small, hand-made batches for the local building community.

In October 2006, the new team, under the banner of Vetrazzo, LLC, opens the doors on a brand new, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in a recycled Ford auto plant on the Bay in Richmond, California. A month later, the new era kicks off by shipping the plant’s first Vetrazzo panel to actor and environmental activist Ed Begley, Jr. for installation on the nationally televised show, “Living with Ed”.

Vetrazzo® takes discarded glass from the U.S. like…decommissioned traffic lights, windshields, used bottles, plate glass windows, and transforms it, in the U.S., into an exquisite work of art.  It comes with a ten year warranty and compared to granite, quartz, marble, solid surface, concrete, stainless steel, laminate and butcher block, ranks highest in heat resistance, scratch resistance, color fastness, slips in stain resistance and is the only one to rank highest in eco-friendly.




Vetrezzo is a beautiful product and typifies how well green and sustainable and recycle can fit.

Thoughts.  Would you like to share information about other products that could be considered eco-friendly?  Email me at landfair3554@comcast.net

Posted by Mike Landfair on November 6, 2007 | Comments (0)