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Interface Inc

An American maker of modular carpet tiles and flooring founded in 1973, when Ray Anderson brought fusion-bonding carpet-tile technology from Britain to the U.S. and built the company in LaGrange, Georgia. Its products, sold under the Interface, FLOR, and nora brands, cover offices, schools, hospitals, and homes. In 1994, after a customer asked what his company did for the environment, Anderson read a book he later described as a "spear in the chest," sparking the firm's famed sustainability drive, "Mission Zero."