Engineered to perform and designed to disappear, Arc-Com’s Hyphyn-vinyl-based fabric will biodegrade over 90% within 2 years in a landfill environment

Arc-Com’s Cloud Forest – Seabreeze coated fabric, built on Hyphyn biodegradable vinyl. Image courtesy of Arc-Com

Arc-Com’s new high-performance coated fabric, Cloud Forest, reimagines what vinyl can be — luxuriously durable throughout its life, yet thoughtfully engineered to fade away when its journey ends. Designed to meet the rigorous performance demands of commercial interiors, Cloud Forest delivers the durability, cleanability and reliability designers expect from coated fabrics, while introducing a new chapter in material innovation and environmental responsibility.

Cloud Forest is built on the Hyphyn platform, the first-of-its-kind biodegradable vinyl. Developed with a proprietary enzyme system, Hyphyn enables the material to break down by more than 90% within two years when placed in landfill conditions. This breakthrough technology allows designers and specifiers to select a high-performing vinyl with the confidence that it has been created with a more responsible end-of-life story in mind.

Beyond its performance and innovation, Cloud Forest brings a refined sense of nature indoors. The pattern features soft, stylized botanical motifs that evoke the shifting interplay of sunlight and shadow as light filters through the dense canopy of a lush rainforest. The result is an organic, layered texture that feels both calming and sophisticated — adding depth, movement and subtle visual interest to interior spaces.

Balancing beauty, performance and forward-thinking material science, Cloud Forest represents a new vision for coated fabrics — one where elevated design and responsible innovation coexist seamlessly.

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