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Throughout the world, BONA sets the standard for installation and maintenance of wooden floors
What is BONA?
BONA is an international company, which has been creating and manufacturing products for wooden floors for almost 100 years. BONA distinguishes itself from a large number of manufacturers by its determination to focus exclusively on wooden floors. Everything what BONA makes is for wooden floors. The goal of BONA is to manufacture and sale the best products and solutions for wooden and cork floors installation and covering in all over the world.
It all started from coffee…
The history of BONA started in 1894 in Sweden, when a 26-year-old Wilhelm Edner has opened a grocery store in Malmö, where he was selling coffee. The store had parquet floors, which over time wear down. This prompted Wilhelm to look for a way to protect the floors. This is how floor wax was created – absolutely new product in the market of Sweden. In 1910 Wilhelm Edner started selling it.
The wax was in great demand; therefore, in 1919, he registered a company by the name of BONA AB, which consistently started expanding the assortment of floor maintenance materials. With time, floor installation materials had been added to its assortment.
In 1943, Bona created its first parquet finish and in 1979, it created first waterborne parquet finish in the world, which almost did not change the colour of wooden floors.
In 1953, BONA opened its first subsidiary in Germany. This gave way to further expansion of the company. In 1981, the production of UV finishes was launched.
In 1987- 2000, Bona established subsidiaries in USA (BonaKemi USA Inc.) and Singapore (BonaKemi Asia, Pacific Pte Ltd.). In 2001-2002, the demand for Bona products was constantly growing and this enabled the company to open two new plants in Sweden and purchase the plant in USA. In 2004, BONA established two subsidiaries in Panama and Shanghai. In 2006 there were opened other two new factories – one in USA and another in China.
In 2000, BONA started manufacturing of new generation parquet polishing machines and created a new 8300 series of antistatic abrasives, which were made from zirconium, one of the hardest materials found in the world. In 2005, BONA introduced to the market a new vacuum dust container, which allowed you to carry out sanding works in any premises almost dust free. Also Bona Sportive System – system, which consists of paints, finishes and cleaner and it is designed especially for sports halls. In 2007 BONA began to trade absolutely new product for the wooden floors covering – Bona Naturale. This coating product combines the best from finish and oil, and is designed for those who want to have covered, but absolutely naturally looking floors.
Keeping up with time
Now BONA is a constantly growing company. It has subsidiaries in 23 countries of the world and distributors in 52 countries. Thus, BONA distributes its production in 75 different countries.
The BONA group has six factories in Sweden, Germany, USA and China. The strong team of scientists constantly performs scientific tests in well-equipped laboratories. BONA offers products, which are the result of a thorough scientific and practical research. Everything that BONA creates and manufactures comes from focusing all of its potential to wooden floors.
BONA strives to be the best in the market of wooden floors all over the world. BONA offers a complete system of products for installation and maintenance of wooden floors: adhesives, finishes, oils, sanding machines, abrasives, and floor maintenance products. Independent of whether you are a parquet manufacturer, an architect, an interior designer, a parquet layer, or a homeowner, BONA can always offer solutions and a complete system of products for wooden floors. BONA can offer the best solution in any situation because it has well combined products for every stage in installation and maintenance of wooden floors.
From professionals to professionals
We understand the difficult work and the needs of a wood layer. BONA works a lot to improve customer’s work. BONA products fully comply with the requirements of a modern customer. They are easy and comfortable to work with; they are ecological, as well as environment and human friendly (the times when you had to wear a protecting mask while working are long gone); they do not change the properties and appearance of wood; and they are adapted for usage in various, even problematic, situations. BONA takes great pride in all of its products.
Abrasives and sanding machines. BONA created and perfected the sanding machines, which are manufactured in a special BONA factory in Sweden. They are valued for their excellent qualities and impeccable design. In a strive to make the life of craftsmen easier, BONA cooperated with a Swiss company SIA ABRASIVES, which is one of the most experienced specialist of abrasives in the world. Together they have launched a new product: abrasives for professionals, which have been created exclusively for wooden floors.
Adhesives. BONA has been manufacturing adhesives for over 50 years. There are thirty different kinds of adhesives, which were designed for different kinds of wooden floors. You can choose from dispersion-based, solvent based, water-bonding and reactive (polymeric) adhesives.
Finishes. It is the most practical and probably the most popular protection of wooden floors in Lithuania. BONA is renowned through all over the world for its waterborne finishes. It really has many things to offer. Mega is the most popular parquet finish in the world and can satisfy the needs of most of our customers; parquet finish Flow with the enlarged chemical resistance. And, of course, Traffic, which is especially resistant to wear and has already become a standard among the majority of parquet layers.
Oils. Natural pine oil, which penetrates deeply into the wood, is irreplaceable for people, who like to feel natural wood with their bare feet.
Naturale. Bona designed covering product of new generation for wooden floors, which combines the best from finish and oil. Bona Naturale preserves the natural look of wooden floors and at the same time provide the protection, which corresponds to the protection of the best quality finish.
Maintenance. BONA offers a whole spectrum of tools for cleaning, refreshing, polishing, impregnating and waxing of wooden floors.
BONA products – it is not the separate materials and tools, it is a system, which allows you to reach the final, not intermediate, result. Elements of this system are well combined and complement each other. Since our goal is an excellent result, which satisfies our customer, we offer you not only Bona system, but all the support you might need. Our experience will help us find the best solution for you.
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Bona Care - wooden floor care system (LT)
Bona Speed System - the levelling of the base and laying of the parquet in an extremely short space of time (LT)
Bona Carl's Deck Oil - the protection of wooden outdoor constructions at any weather (LT)
Bona Naturale - preserve the true nature of wooden floors (LT)
Bona systems for wooden floors' gluing (LT)
Bona coatings for wooden floors (LT)
Bona Sportive System - a system for equiping, maintaining and renewing wooden floor in sportshalls and dancehalls (LT)
Finnish quality what you can always trust on
Parla Floor Oy belongs to Olavi Räsänen Oy company group.
Briefly about OR Group companies
The history of the Olavi Räsänen Oy company starts at 1946. At that days Olavi Räsänen wanted to try his hand at ski manufacturing and in other fields and he founded in Mikkeli a company called Marttinen&Kumpp. But within a very short time the firm changed its work and began to make plywood boxes for sweets and supply them to customers. In 1962 the company was registered under the name of Olavi Räsänen Oy. Subsequent expansion in the company’s activity and diversification have resulted in the OR Group.
Now the OR Group consists of:
- Olavi Räsänen Oy;
- Parla Floor Oy;
- Parlatuote Oy;
- Savopak Oy.
The OR Group companies are engaged in a different works, which are related with the wood. Wooden pallets, loudspeakers, multilayer parquet boards, packing boxes and other products from the solid wood are manufactured.
The OR Group employs about 400 people. In 2006 the turnover amounted to 51,5 million euros, with export accounting to 45 %.
Parla Floor
Parla Floor Oy, which belongs to the OR Group, is responsible for the wood floor business. Its activity began in 1969, when the company Turun Parketti ja Puu Oy was founded. It operated in the timber trade, later it engaged in producing and laying the parquet.
Nowadays about 1 million square meters of parquet boards are produced per year and their trade mark is PARLA FLOOR. From 2004 parquet boards are produced with lock system Parla Fix. All wooden floors from Parla Floor are manufactured exceptionally in Finland.
Parla Floor Oy company manufactures these products:
- 1 and 3 strip parquet boards with Parla Fix system;
- Solid wood flooring;
- Underlayment for parquet boards.
We collaborate with Parla Floor Oy company since 2004. All the production of Parla Floor distinguishes by the impeccable Finnish quality and high grading standards. Parla Floor products are safe to use, do not contain allergenic substances. The M1 certificate was invested for parquet boards, and it shows that this construction product assigned to M1 class. The products, which do not emit or emit very small quantities of chemicals, such as formaldehyde, ammonia, and do not have any smell, are classed to this class. Parla Floor parquet floor are labeled with the CE mark, which indicates that the products meet the harmonized European standard (EN 14342). In accordance with this standard parquet boards are ranked to the class E1. This class also indicates that these products through evaporation emit a very small quantity of formaldehyde or absolutely do not emit.
Wooden floors from Parla Floor - a high quality, designed to satisfy the needs of modern life.
Perfect ratio between price and quality
Universal Flooring hardwood floors are produced by one of the world‘s leading wood floor manufacturers. The company floors manufacturing started in 1986. At the beginning mosaic flooring was made from the remains of the furniture.
With a growing interest in flooring a new factory was built in Malaysia in 1988. Today the factory is added by the additional production lines, which produce three-layer 1, 3 or 4-strip parquet boards. Universal Flooring rated capacity – 3 million sq.m. of the production per year, that is why Universal Flooring is one of the largest multilayer parquet boards manufacturers in the world. The production plant in Malaysia employs 630 workers and it consists of 2 factories.
Product development
Universal Flooring constantly applies innovation and improves the production. Since 2006 parquet boards are produced with UNICLIC lock system, which provides a simple and high quality installation of parquet boards. Further improvements, which were implemented into manufacturing, were an impregnation of the beech wood strips and a new German UV lacquer – Mara-Thon. Mara-Thon lacquer characterizes with perfect quality and high resistant to scratches.
The oil treatment has been improved after the UV-hardened oil started to use. Both the finish and oil meets the highest international environmental standards, and that is confirmed by the accredited laboratory tests.
Universal Flooring has implemented quality management standard ISO 9001. Also the production of this manufacturer meet the harmonized European standard EN 14342. In accordance with this standard parquet boards are ranked to the class E1. This class also indicates that these products through evaporation emit a very small quantity of formaldehyde or absolutely do not emit.
Property rights
Universal Flooring parquet boards are sold through the offices in USA, Sweden and Malaysia. Universal Woodfloor (Europe) AB was founded in 1991 as Columbia Forest Products owned subsidiary company. In 2005 all the parquet boards business, factories and sales offices were acquired by Columbia Flooring (Danville, USA), Columbia Forest Products owned subsidiary company.
Vision
Universal Flooring vision is to produce and distribute the best quality hardwood floors. The best quality in this case is understood as a good price, quality features of the product and impeccable customer service.
Environmental protection
Universal Flooring as a responsible manufacturer is concerned that the forests would be replanted and new trees will grow up for manufacturing new output. It takes care of the world's forest resources conservation, therefore they produce parquet boards only from wood, which grows in forests for felling. This is ensured by Chain-Of-Custody certification that was issued to the manufacture of Universal Flooring.
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- Where to buy
- Universal Flooring – wooden floor for every taste (LT)
About company
The producer of Quick•Step® laminated floors – Belgian company UNILIN bvba, which belongs to Unilin group. Unilin is one of the biggest and most known manufacturers of laminated floors, which are famous for their innovation in laminated flooring sphere.
As producer of laminated floors, multi-layered parquet boards, melamine boards, MDF boards& chipboards and roofing systems, Unilin is an established player in the wood and wood processing industry.
Unilin employs a workforce of 4,300 staff operating in 21 production sites across Europe, the US and Asia. Unilin effects a 1,1 billion € turnover and is a member of the listed international Mohawk group of companies.
Unilin’s success is founded on a close-knit team of dedicated staff, a high-tech working environment and high-quality products.
Unilin innovations and oneness in the range of laminated floors
Unilin has invented Direct Pressure Laminate (DPL) technology, which is used in the producing of laminate in the whole world. According to this technology, all laminate layers are pressed together at one time, thus getting end-product.
Uniclic – the first in the world complex system for joining of laminated floors without glue. Uniclic lock is characterized with its durability and the simplicity of laying, therefore it is used in the products of the most producers (both in laminated floors and parquet boards) according to Uniclic patent. Life-time guarantee is given for the lock system of Quick•Step® laminated floors (Uniclic).
Besides these innovations, the technologies of producing Quick•Step® laminated floors is always one step ahead as compared with other producers of laminated floors. The newest decors, structural solutions, other features (antistatic, protecting against scratches, etc.), which improves the exploitation of laminated floors– all of this give to Quick•Step® exclusive quality and design.
Do you know that Quick•Step® produces laminated floors ecologically in such way giving a hand for the help to our mother-nature?
The core of Quick•Step® floor coverings consists of high density wood fibre board (HDF). The wood, which is used for producing of Quick•Step® products, has PEFC marking. This marking claims that the wood, which is used in a manufacturing, is obtained during ecologically rational and harmless using of the forests.
EURO HOME laminated floors – German quality for competitive price
Brand belongs to German company Kronoflooring Gmbh, which was founded in 2001 year and is a daughter-company of Kronospan GmbH, Lampertswalde concern.
Kronoflooring Gmbh company group is specializing in a production of laminated floors. In 2009 year the productive capacity of the group reached 155 mln. sq.m per year and it was the biggest in the world.
Kronoflooring Gmbh sells its production in more than 80 countries of the world, manages different brands, also well-known in Lithuania Krono Original. EURO HOME brand covers 7 collections, in which are selected 76 laminated floors types most popular between Europe customers.
All the floors, which are marked with EURO HOME brand, are produced in the biggest and most modern Kronoflooring group plant (360 000 m2 area) in Lampertswalde town, Germany.
Euro Home floors are characterized not only with perfect quality, but also very competitive price. Automated processes and huge quantities of production allow to minimize costs of production at the most.
Ecologically aware & environmentally friendly laminate
Euro Home laminate floors consist of 90 % wood. Only timber obtained from thinning indigenous, sustainably managed forests is used in the production of the laminated floors. The origin of the whole timber, which is used in the production, is certified by the PEFC (Pan European Forest Certification) and the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council), two independent test institutes.
Apart from forest round wood, wood residues from the sawmill industry such as slivers, chippings or wood shavings are also used. Used wood residues, which are getting as by-products in other production processes, significantly reduce the demand of cutting wood and help to preserve the forests. KronoFlooring manufactures, using resource-sparing methods, which are based on modern technologies and energy-saving production plant.
All laminated floors and other wood-based materials comply with the provisions for German and European E1 classification, under which health impairments are excluded. You can dispose of your old floorings in the domestic waste with a clear conscience.
The leader in the skirting boards production
50 years with Karl Pedross AG/S.p.A.
Every successful company has its story of success. Pedross history began in 1956 in Laces, Italy, when Karl Pedross, a certified carpenter, founded the company of the solid hardwood flooring mill. As early as the 1970’s he, inspired by interminable innovations, entered the market of the natural skirting boards.
The founded company has never been afraid to take business risks, it was principled and honest, and employees always tried their best for the good of clients and the company. In such way Pedross has developed into a respected international group, which might offer for their costumers the complete system of skirting boards and accessories.
In 2006, the company Karl Pedross AG/S.p.A. had the 50 year anniversary. In the same year it merged with Bürkle & Profile GmbH. This enabled the Pedross group to go one step further towards its vision to become the worldwide market leader in the skirting boards industry.
The short nowadays Pedross group portrait
Pedross currently has two factories – in Italy, Laces, and Germany, Frankenthal, and also has office in Innsbruck, Austria. Total Pedross company employs about 250 workers. The company manufactures solid, veneered and laminated skirting boards, Combistar, Clipstar, Stepstar, MDP flooring profiles, briquettes. Total annual Pedross group produces 38 million linear meters of production.
Quality
Specializing in this field, each step of the activity must meet the highest standards. Open communication with clients and partners, mutual respect and appreciation are fundamentals while creating the high-quality products.
Pedross produces only high grade products and any compromises on this issue can be. Prior to market products, all profiles and products for floors must have a final inspection. It is very important for Pedross that customers will be absolutely satisfied with the products. It is warranted with the implemented into the company the quality management standard ISO 9001:2001 and with FCS certificate. This certificate note that the wood used for manufacturing is intended for felling.
Competence in Profiles
Küberit history – the quality, which has its own traditions
The company, whose seat is in the Lüdenscheid, Germany, is proud of the successful 143-year history. Company was founded in 1863. In 1970 began the production of the first metal profiles. In the following 10 years PVC and metal profiles were produced and distributed at the same time. At the end of 1980 the production of PVC profiles was stopped and Küberit switched over to higher quality profiles from aluminium, brass and stainless steel.
Currently Küberit produces profiles for textile and elastic floor coverings, also profile systems for all hard floor coverings, such as laminate, parquet boards, ceramic tiles and so on. 39 years specialization in the metal profiles manufacturing, innovative solutions and the highest level of quality, have made Küberit its range leader.
Küberit capacity
Küberit products are manufactured in Germany, the company employs approximately 150 workers. Küberit produces several millions production units per year. From 1995 till 2007 Küberit capacity increased by 5 times. Mostly this increase is determined by export, particularly the growth of demand in European and Eastern European countries. Küberit exports its products more than in 40 countries around the world.
The company’s philosophy
To develope innovative products in close cooperation with the manufacturers of the floors, according to their wishes and requirements. That is why Küberit production is highly valued as by the floor manufacturers, as by professional floor layers. Especially flat hierarchy of the company, rapid decisions taking, the tuning between production and transportation departments, and close cooperation with other companies – is the advantage of Küberit on purpose to meet the requirements of particular customer.
Küberit production
Today hardly any of the well-known manufacturers of the floorings or floor layers will not admit the benefits of Küberit profiles. Küberit production – the wide range as of standard profiles, as of special products, which first of all are designed for the professional floor layers.
The products range includes connecting and edges trims profiles, profiles for stair levels installation and renovation, metal skirting boards, decorating details for stairs. Production is made of stainless steel, brass, anodized aluminium, also with a natural wood veneer, thermoplastic wood decorating foils and high-resistance laminated film (CPL). There is opportunity to choose from more than 8500 items.
All Küberit production is market „Made in Germany“ – with the mark that guarantees the high quality level of production. Quality management in accordance with ISO 9001:2001 standard and the safety standards authority certification ensure the continuity of the work.
