ATLANTA,GA - April 22, 2009 - Interface, Inc. continues to make progress on the company's efforts to reduce environmental impacts, push the envelope on innovation, and to introduce other companies to the business case for sustainability. The company today announced its Ecometrics(TM) results for 2008 amid news that Interface has been ranked number one in the Survey of Sustainability Experts by GlobeScan, ahead of corporations like BP and General Electric.

"It is gratifying to be recognized for our efforts on a global scale," said Dan Hendrix, CEO of Interface, Inc. ""Mission Zero is about more than just the Interface journey. It's about demonstrating and sharing a new business model that aligns people, products, profit and the planet."

In reporting its Ecometrics(TM) for 2008, the company offers the following highlights:

• Environmental impacts are down. Interface's net greenhouse gas emissions are down 71 percent from its 1996 baseline, 34 percent from reductions, and 37 percent from offsets. Energy consumption per unit of production is down 44 percent since 1996, and 28 percent of the company's global energy supply is from renewable sources. Notably, 89 percent of electricity is renewable, including three factories that are operating on 100 percent green electricity. Water intake per unit of production is down 72 percent from 1996 levels.
  
• Sustainability continues to drive innovation. Interface's continued focus on closing the loop on product manufacture through the ReEntry(R) program resulted in the diversion of 43 million pounds of carpet and carpet scrap from the landfill in 2008, bringing the totals for this program to 175 million pounds since 1995. ReEntry 2.0, introduced in 2007, is an innovative technology that allows the company to recover carpet backing and face fiber and use them in making new products.
  
• Closing the Loop. Recycled and bio-based materials make up 24 percent of the raw materials used in Interface operations, a critical piece in the company's progress away from virgin materials.
  
• Waste Reduction Continues. Total waste sent to landfills since 1996 has been reduced 67 percent across company operations. Additionally, the focus on reducing process and material waste through Interface's QUEST program has produced impressive results, netting the company $405 million in cumulative, avoided waste costs since 1996.

In 2008, Interface and its associates continued to take the message of sustainability to the communities where they work and live. Interface reports that:

• Interface associates spent over 18,000 hours working with local volunteer organizations.
  
• The Interface Environmental Foundation awarded 32 grants totaling $16,000 to school programs aimed at increasing environmental awareness.
  
• 957 Interface associates invested in Mission Zero by balancing their personal vehicle emissions footprint via the company's Cool CO2mmute(TM) program.
  
• Interface was again ranked number one in the GlobeScan Survey of Sustainability Experts for 2008, a global poll that asks sustainability experts to name companies that merit attention for their commitment to sustainability. The most recent survey, dated November 2008, notes that, "Interface maintains its position at the top of the list...Interface has clearly maintained its long-standing reputation for sustainability."

About Interface, Inc.
Interface, Inc. (NASDAQ: IFSIA) is the world's largest manufacturer of modular carpet and is based in Atlanta, Ga.

Interface, Inc.

Interface, Inc.

Interface, Inc. is the world’s largest manufacturer of modular carpet, which it markets under the InterfaceFLOR, FLOR, and Bentley Prince Street brands. Bentley Prince Street also is a leader in the designer-quality broadloom carpet market. In the mid-1990s, Interface’s Chairman and CEO Ray C. Anderson shifted the company’s strategy, aiming to redesign its industrial practices to instead focus on sustainability without sacrificing its business goals. Interface is committed to doing business in ways that minimize the impact on the environment. Interface companies have adopted an aggressive vision - To be the first company that, by its deeds, shows the entire industrial world what sustainability is, in all its dimensions: People, process, product, place and profits — by 2020 — and in doing so, to become restorative through the power of influence. In respecting that vision, every creative, manufacturing and building decision Interface makes, moves it closer to the goal of eliminating any negative impact Interface companies have on the environment.

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