The Supply Chain Due Diligence Act requires companies to comprehensively monitor and document human rights and environmental standards along their supply chains. The CLASSEN Group optimises this complex process with the help of the software solution from osapiens. In an interview with Matthias Jungblut, co-founder and CPO of osapiens, it becomes clear how the technology supports companies like CLASSEN in complying with these requirements.

Recycling of PVC, especially of flooring, is difficult due to its chemical composition and problematic additives, but new processes such as those in the Circular Flooring Consortium are showing progress, while alternative materials such as CERAMIN could offer long-term solutions, according to Sebastian Wendel of the Classen Group.

Vinyl flooring has many advantages, but the PVC it contains is harmful to health. In this article, we give you valuable tips and show you vinyl flooring without PVC.

Resilient floor coverings are available in a wide range of variants, designs and colours. Unfortunately, they are often contaminated with harmful substances such as plasticisers and chlorine. We give you tips on what you should look out for when buying resilient floor coverings.

PVC and the harmful substances it contains harbour health risks. For this reason, more and more vinyl and designer floor coverings are being produced without PVC. We explain the background to this.

When it comes to choosing the right flooring for your child's room, you should make sure that it is absolutely PVC-free so as not to jeopardise your child's health. There are a few things to bear in mind.

To answer this frequently asked question in a meaningful way, it is necessary to preface something about the name PVC: every PVC floor is a vinyl floor. But not every vinyl floor is a PVC floor.

Floor coverings with PVC have been criticized for decades, especially because they contain harmful plasticizers. We show you why this is so and how you can find PVC-free flooring.

PVC (polyvinyl chloride) is a plastic (plastic). One of its most important features is that it can be deformed and kept permanently elastic with the addition of plasticizers (additives). How elastic depends on the proportion and type of plasticizers. This is referred to as soft PVC (flexible PVC).

PVC (polyvinyl chloride) has direct and indirect effects on our health. We refer to indirect as damage to the environment, which in turn affects our health. In this text, we focus on the direct reference and finished products that traders and consumers come into contact with.