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Interface

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Made by: Ray C. Anderson
Date: founded 1973 (as Carpets International-Georgia)
Place: LaGrange / Atlanta, Georgia
Held by: Interface
Themes: Machine tufting & Dalton, Companies & modern tufting

View at the source Cited in chapter 11, note 8

Cite this source

Ray C. Anderson. “Interface,” founded 1973 (as Carpets International-Georgia). Interface. interface.com/US/en-US/sustainability/our-history.html.

Research notes

Ray Anderson left Milliken in 1973 to bring European free-lay carpet tiles to the US, in a joint venture with the British firm Carpets International (Carpets International-Georgia); first plant in LaGrange, Georgia. Renamed Interface after going public; acquisitions included Heuga (1988). Known since 1994 for Anderson's sustainability programme; he died in 2011. The company says it made "America's first modular carpet tile". Why it matters: carried the carpet tile into US commercial flooring, now a major format for machine-tufted carpet. Dates: LaGrange plant 1973 (Interface) vs 1974 (encyclopedia sources); IPO/renaming dates differ across sources. "First"/"largest carpet-tile maker" are company or press claims. Other pages with images: https://www.interface.com/US/en-US/more-from-interface/about.html · https://blog.interface.com/celebrating-50-years/ Independent sources: https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/interface-inc · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface,_Inc. · https://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/interface-inc-history/ Research note (Oct 2026): facts taken from search-result summaries; the pages themselves weren't opened. Check the cited pages before quoting.