Make the sustainable choice for your commercial gym flooring

At Physical, we understand that choosing the right flooring for your gym is crucial not only for the safety and training experience of your members, but also for the planet. 

That’s why, through our exclusive partnership with Ecore, we offer a range of sustainable flooring solutions that are as kind to the environment as they are high-performing. 

This isn’t just about doing the right thing morally. Increasingly, your members expect you to make eco-friendly choices. With our high-quality, sustainable gym flooring, you’re making a sound business decision as well as a great ethical one.

Meet our pioneering eco-partner

Ecore was born green and has been making smart choices for more than a century.

Today, its sustainable approach focuses on mining waste streams for high-performance raw materials that it can transform into premium quality, eco-friendly commercial gym flooring.

This is currently dominated by recycled rubber: in 2020 alone, Ecore diverted more than 50.4m kgs of truck tyres from landfill, contributing just 4.4m kgs of waste to landfill. That’s a Net Landfill Diversion of 46m kgs. 

And it isn’t just the raw materials that are eco-friendly. Its manufacturing is too. 

Ecore’s proprietary processes use 40 per cent less energy than standard industry procedures; do not feature smokestacks; and use minimal water, with a closed loop chilling system that re-circulates water to conserve 17.5m gallons of water each year.

Ecore also re-uses scrap to minimise waste; rubber does not degrade through the recycling process, so it can be continually collected and recycled back into the system. 

Fit for purpose commercial gym flooring

Ecore products are designed to contribute to LEED certification – the green building certification used worldwide – with several meeting LEED v4 requirements. On average, they contain 62 per cent post-consumer recycled content.

And all of this is done without negatively impacting the performance of Ecore’s flooring portfolio. Quite the contrary, in fact.

When it upcycles tyres to turn them into eco-friendly gym flooring, Ecore harnesses all the attributes that made them great tyres in the first place: the ability to support weight, provide traction and absorb shock. 

This is hugely beneficial to gym operators and users, creating safe, ergonomic, acoustically great surfaces that also put a big tick in the sustainability box. 

A couple of examples… 

Ebb & Flow combines all the benefits of traditional commercial gym flooring – durability, safety, acoustics and so on – with a woven vinyl surface layer for a sophisticated aesthetic. It’s made using reclaimed rubber for enhanced eco-friendliness and is available in a wide range of colours. 

Meanwhile, Ecore’s Performance UltraTile is a rubber floor tile designed with a patented ‘ultra’ high-density surface layer on a moulded base. It offers enhanced shock absorption against impact in moderate to extreme weight-drop applications.

Both products are perfect examples of the way Ecore upcycles materials to create commercial gym flooring that’s as performance-conscious as it is environmentally-friendly.

Go green without compromising the experience

Physical is proud to be the UK’s exclusive distributor of Ecore’s full range of commercial gym flooring products.

It’s all part of a broader environmental policy at Physical that goes well beyond compliance. We actively pursue ways to minimise our environmental impact across all operations, from waste management and travel to our supply chain and deliveries – and, as demonstrated by our partnership with Ecore, by sourcing environmentally-friendly products wherever possible.

With solutions for every area and zone of the gym, this high-quality portfolio proves beyond doubt that sustainability need not come at the expense of performance, durability or user experience – certainly not when it comes to commercial gym flooring.

Meet and exceed your member expectations. Choose Ecore from Physical and demonstrate your commitment to a brighter future for your members, your gym and the planet. Explore our wide range of Ecore commercial gym flooring.