Innovating Toward a New Model of Business
Interface was founded with an innovative idea — modular carpet tile. In the quarter century since our founding, however, our reinvention of products and processes and the new sustainable model for business in and outside the carpet industry we have created has recast and revolutionized the notion of what an innovative company can be.
Innovation at Interface is a seamless, continuous cycle, where product innovation feeds process and cultural innovations, which in turn feed new generations of product innovation. The genesis of our innovative culture was our founder, Ray Anderson. Through a shared vision of sustainability, programs and training for our associates, and global teams that collaboratively reinvented the processes by which we produce our products, innovation has become deeply imbedded across Interface and inspires other companies to share in our mission. This timeline highlights key breakthroughs on our journey. Click on years and photos to view these amazing stories.