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Circular flooring, without compromise.

Construction eats half the world's raw materials, and ceramic tiles alone cause 243 billion kg of CO₂ a year. New legislation demands a 50% cut in primary materials by 2030. Czones offers fully demountable tile flooring: its patented, reusable C-Mortar makes any ceramic tile floor completely removable and reusable, no new installer skills required. Demolition waste becomes a circular asset instead.

Czones
Est.
2022
Based in
Ulft
CEO
Bas Kiefmann
Transition market
Resource transition
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Czones
How it works

Czones offers fully demountable tile flooring. Its patented, reusable C-Mortar makes ceramic tile floors completely removable and reusable. No new skills are required for installers, and it works with any ceramic tile. The floor turns from demolition waste into a circular asset.

Market size
€330M (NL, 2030)
CAGR
7.8%

Czones breaks the tile industry's linear take-make-waste chain. With guaranteed buy-back, recycling and refurbishing, materials keep their value: 95% waste-free removal, and a floor that becomes a Product-as-a-Service instead of a one-off cost.

Huddles collaboration

Huddles has worked closely with Czones since 2022: on the cap table, in the room.

Why we backed them

Construction uses half of the world's raw materials. Ceramic tiles alone cause 243 billion kg of CO₂ emissions a year. New legislation demands a 50% cut in primary materials by 2030. The sector is at a turning point.

How Huddles engaged

We co-build from the inside: backing Czones through the pre-seed fund, with hands-on studio support on strategy, hiring and go-to-market.

Where they stand

Czones holds a patent and a Kiwa Innovation Certificate confirming quality and reliability. It has signed its first customer and built a pipeline of roughly 200 leads. Focus now: scaling across retail, healthcare and public real estate.

Timeline
2022
Founded Howart B.V., with Huddles as shareholder
Sep 2025
Patent granted
Oct 2025
First Account Manager hired & first customer signed
2026
Expansion via tiling contractors
Bas Kiefmann
Huddles doesn't invest in a pitch, they invest in a team. They stood right next to us when we had to move from patent to first customer. Not at a distance asking for reports, but with their hands on the business case.
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Bas Kiefmann
CEO
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