BAL is celebrating after winning Best Innovation at this year’s Tile Association (TTA) Awards and also scooping the Best Environmental Initiative as part of ARDEX Group UK.
The TTA Awards 2025 took place at The Hilton Metropole on Friday 16th May with the theme of “Celebrating Excellence” – recognising the best of the best in the tiling industry.
Best Innovation 2025 was won by BAL Micromax Grout-Effect Sealant, which was recognised by judges and a public vote as the most innovative tiling product (or service) of the last year.
Launched in July last year, Micromax Grout-Effect Sealant is a matt-effect sealant that matches Micromax3 ECO Grout and the company’s Absolute Grout in colour and texture.
The product provides fixers with a sealant that can be used for seamless perimeter and soft movement joints, internal and external corners, without standing out from the grout joints.
It has proved a great success, the manufacturer says, with BAL Micromax Grout-Effect Sealant completely replacing the old “shiny” traditional technologies of BAL sealants in distribution partners.
The product is a solution for seamless joints with thousands of users across the UK reportedly choosing the product as the finishing sealant of choice, one that clients can rely on for perfect results that last.
ARDEX Group UK also took home the award for Best Environmental Initiative for its Building Tomorrow initiative – with a commitment to being fully Carbon Neutral by 2045 and being Carbon Neutral for Scope 1 & 2 emissions by 2030.
The UK Group, consisting of ARDEX UK and Building Adhesives, has crafted and part-implemented a Sustainability Roadmap, aimed to ensure that the UK business achieves these goals through a wide range of initiatives including sustainable sourcing of materials, recycling, waste reduction, extended product life-cycles, energy efficiency and sustainable energy sourcing and sustainable work-place practices.
Further success came later in the evening as tiling contractors Elite Tiling won Best Commercial Large (over 250sqm) – Hospitality and Leisure, for Cozenton Sports Centre in Rainham, Kent which used a full ARDEX pool solution.
All categories were decided through a combination of a public vote and an expert judging panel.
David Hackett, managing director at ARDEX Group UK, said: “To win these awards recognises our continued efforts and achievements and further endorses our products, services and sustainability credentials.
“These accomplishments are for everyone across the company who have contributed towards the success of BAL Grout-Effect Sealant and the implementation of our Building Tomorrow sustainability roadmap.
“I’d also like to congratulate Gary and Jay Bude and the team at Elite Tiling Ltd for their success with the Cozenton Sports Centre – it is a superb facility, and we were delighted to work with them throughout the project to ensure its success.”
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