June 18, 2007—Tricycle has announced the launch of the next generation of sampling images, Tryk, with simulation designed to reduce waste in product manufacturing and sampling. Tryk enables sustainable design in the interiors industry by avoiding the wasteful need to manufacture samples that eventually clutter landfills. It also provides decision-makers with simulated images of the product.
Tryk does not replicate manufacturing. Instead, it mimics the manufacturing process to create an image of the surface, enabling decision makers, including facilities managers and their designers, to arrive at a final decision faster.
Tryk’s images are designed to enhance the design, product development, and sampling of interior surfaces. A step beyond any single surface or any single technology, Tryk erases waste in every sector, from floorcovering to wallcovering to fabric.
Tryk is being used online to choose and recolor patterns, collaborate among corporate users and designers and visualize installations in room scenes. Tricycle points out that it is being used as accurate, realistic, recyclable paper prints that reduce oil use and landfill waste. More, it is being used to launch new products without using inventory and to reduce unnecessary bulk and waste in architect folders.
The Tryk model has been proved effective in the carpet industry, where in a two-year period Tricycle helped its customers conserve 26,000 gallons of oil, keep 155,000 pounds of carpet samples out of landfills, and contribute a positive economic impact of more than $19 million to the industry.
With the launch of the Tryk brand, Tricycle also announced that it is phasing out the trade name SIM from its Tricycle sampling program.
The announcement on the process to produce sustainable samples was made during NeoCon The World’s Trade Fair, at The Merchandise Mart, Chicago.
For more information, see the Tricycle Web site.
