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Company profile
Kronotex GmbH & Co. KG
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Kronotex
produces MDF since the foundation in 1992. The
production range was continuously enlarged in its
quality and quantity. For the covering of the raw
panels there have been installed several short
press systems. This was the precondition for
the production of laminate flooring on a basis of
HDF-mounting plates, that we started in
1995.
Two continually operating MDF
systems, with an annual capacity of 450,000 m³,
form the basis. According to customer-specific
requirements, MDF panels for the furniture and
panel industry or special HDF panels for laminated
flooring production, are provided with a
decorative laminate at eight short press
systems.
The production capacity of
50,000,000 m² laminated floorings in one location
is most certainly unique worldwide. It enables the
fulfillment of customer requirements within
extremely short deadlines.
Also available
are the products of subsidiaries within the Swiss
Krono Group, which are completely identical with
regard to profile and finish and are manufactured
at state-of-the-art production plants. This
generates a high level of security even in
unexpected cases, and creates confidence from the
very initial stages of business relationships.
Aided by the most sophisticated technology
available and state-of-the-art technical training
programs, in conjunction with industriousness and
commitment to their jobs, the employees in
Heilengrabe transformed their products into
superlative commodities that are in great demand
all over the world.
Kronotex and the
subsidiaries of the Swiss Krono Group are
vertically integrated which has proven itself
future-oriented production processes for the
manufacturing of laminated flooring. It has its
roots in the choice of timbers used and extends to
the production and finishing of the panels and the
provision of all auxiliary and additional
materials from Group-owned production, climaxing
in the processing of the products. All process
parameters can be altered at any time and
guarantee a constant unbeatable product quality.
In addition to on-going control within the
company, independent institutes monitor the high
standard of quality of the user-friendly products
and certify this by awarding many of the Kronotex
products. The requirements which have to be
fulfilled in this case comprise additional and far
stricter testing criteria than required by the DIN
EN 13 329 standard for laminated flooring.
In addition to the quality aspect, the
closed production cycle results in further
future-oriented synergies and an efficiency which
customers in more than 85 countries globally have
praised as exemplary. The most important sales are
in Europe, the USA and Canada, with sales offices
in Barnwell and Shanghai, and are centres for the
most important flooring exhibitions.
In
contrast to the trend towards recession and
rationalisation of staff, the company managed to
install over 700 permanent positions in an
economically weak area. One can assume that
doubling that number of employees therefore found
secure jobs in the wider and closer surroundings.
The areas of forestry, transport and traffic,
industrial and trade companies and numerous
companies from the service industry benefit
especially from the positive developments at
Kronotex. The construction of the new Kronoply OSB
plant (OSB - Oriented Strand Board) also plays an
important role as an ecological aspect.
For example, at the Heiligengrabe site,
located north of Berlin and in the middle of Mark
Brandenburg, conifers fresh from the woods are
used exclusively, which could not be industrially
utilised in any other way. They are obtained in
sufficient numbers by the practice of thinning
out, i.e. regular maintenance of native pine
woods.
Early on, a decision was made at
Kronotex to utilise timber from sustainably
managed forests for the production of fibre panels
to promote economically responsible, socially
manageable and economically viable forest
management. Kronotex fulfils the "FSC demands on
the businesses of the trade and processing chain"
and was successfully certified in Autumn 2000.
(FSC Forest Stewardship Council, PEFC)
Heiligengrabe in July 2002 /PE
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