Brent Cowan (214) 679-8597
baccustomworks@hotmail.com
For new homebuyers as well as current homeowners, there is no recycled glass product more intriguing than this remarkably versatile and beautiful product named TRAVINA®.
The TRAVINA® surface is made entirely of recycled glass mixed with a special top quality bio-resin for strength and durability. This patent-pending process produces a wide range of residential uses including kitchen countertops, vanity tops, window sills, tile, fireplace surrounds and more.
Brent Cowan of BAC Customworks, located in the Dallas area, is excited to introduce Travina to the very design-conscious Texas market. He says Jeff Huffman of Master Marble, Inc., has been working with organizations like Ripple Glass and Bausch & Lomb to combine Earth-friendly glass recycling programs with the latest technology to revolutionize the bath and kitchen industry.
“With TRAVINA®, we can create a virtually endless array of unique products with colors and designs customized to the customer’s specifications,” Huffman explains. “We can use glass as filler behind gel-coat to replicate products that are currently made with cultured marble and granite fillers. With recycled glass, we are creating gorgeous solid surfaces with a uniform appearance that will provide unmatched beauty, durability and renewability for years and years to come at an affordable price.”
Most natural stone or manufactured material choices generally involve fabricating products for each application by cutting from large slabs. This process creates substantial waste that is added to our landfills, while creating unneeded and unwanted additional hidden costs. But all TRAVINA® kitchen and bath countertops are custom molded to fit any application need, eliminating waste and respecting the environment.
Recycled Glass composites used in TRAVINA® products match up to, and in some instances surpass, real stone and other engineer products in beauty, strength, heat resistance, scratch resistance, durability and the overall ease of care and maintenance. And unlike other product choices, if you do manage to damage a TRAVINA® product, it can be repaired to look as if it never happened.
The versatility of TRAVINA® products allows countertops to mimic granite or marble, without requiring the constant sealing that natural stone products do. And TRAVINA® uses its own protection system which incorporates anti-microbial properties. Testing proves that the anti-microbial protection system falls in the 99% effective range.
Where does the glass come from? From you and other environmentally conscious people. Like many cities across the United States, Kansas City has a community-wide glass recycling program, in this case a brain-child of Boulevard Beer. If there's one thing Americans are good at produing, it's empty beer bottles, but "Ripple Glass" takes in glass of many origins and prepares it for reuse and recycle. Other sources of countertop material include factory-rejects from laboratory glass manufacuters, and MMI can even repurpose glass from your own collection.
Cowan and his wife, Betsy, became intrigued with TRAVINA® after she heard about it from her friend in Kansas City. The couple has always shared a love for architecture, and planned to build a Craftsman-style house, but hadn't been able to decide on a countertop material that would be both fitting and durable. Both Cowans are active in the real estate industry, Betsy as a successful Realtor, and Brent as an inspector and insurance adjuster, so they have seen granite go from a very exclusive material to something virtually overused in their area. They were both excited to see an option that was not only unique and customizable, but that also didn't involve a product imported from overseas or one that meant destroying somebody's mountainside. When they saw that the cost was comparable to most other solid surface or mid-grade granite counters, and that it was antimicrobial, didn't need sealing, and was more durable than other options, the Cowans decided that other Texans should know about this product too.
Brent Cowan has operated BAC Customworks for many years, providing very meticulous craftsmanship to indivduals as well as to shopowners. He has been trusted not only to rebuild and refinish imported 18th-century grandfather clocks and heirloom custom rifles for resellers, but also to build high-end mahogony bars and cabinetry for select customers. He has built buildings, done complete home and business remodeling, and also been a partner in a glass shop---all experiences that have crafted him into a service-focused artisan who is both capable and excited to run his own TRAVINA® Countertop business. You can count on quality and integrity when you commission BAC Customworks to help you create the look you want with recycled glass counters.
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baccustomworks@hotmail.com
(214) 679-8597
Master Marble has been long-recognized in the cultured marble field in the Kansas City area, but have more recently become world leaders in developing Travina Recycled Glass surfaces. Company president, Jeff Huffman is excited about the versatility his product brings to homeowners, designers and builders alike. Every creation is unique, allowing for virtually any pattern or blend choice including random veining, varying particle sizes and whatever color the consumer desires. The process also allows for the matching of custom colors and/or shades.
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