Kronotex at Bau 2005

Floors for all the Senses
Quality, design and price are the criteria dealers, installers and architects apply in judging the products exhibited at the construction trade show “Bau 2005” in Munich. Among the exhibitors of flooring products, KRONOTEX, the leading producer of laminate flooring based in Heiligengrabe, Germany, is setting new standards with its innovative collection featuring new designs and the very latest in production technology.

“Bau 2005” is Europe’s top trade show for the construction industry. In its appearance there, Kronotex Fussboden GmbH & Co. KG, a member of the Swiss Krono Group, is devoting itself to the new sensuality of our times. “Seeing, Feeling, Hearing” is the motto of its exhibition of beautiful and resilient flooring and other innovations for dealers in Hall B 6, Stand 318. With its various collections ranging in thickness from six to twelve millimeters and featuring new designs and textures, this manufacturer from the German state of Brandenburg offers just the right flooring for any requirement and application.

Quality You Can See, Feel and Hear
The presentation showcases the new “Engineered Flooring” collection. Behind this somewhat dry technical name is a flooring innovation with strong emotional appeal. KRONOTEX combines a totally coordinated embossed grain pattern with a warm, matt luster and carefully machined V-groove to lend Engineered Flooring the typical visual appearance of prestigious wooden floorboards. But the visual beauty of these floors is not their only compelling trait. You not only see this quality with your eyes, you can also feel it with your hands and feet. With a thickness of ten millimeters, the sturdy Engineered Flooring elements provide a walking feel and sound sensation comparable to those of solid wood floorboards. It is this harmonious interplay of appearance, feel and acoustics that makes this beautiful yet highly resilient and low-maintenance flooring a trendsetter for demanding domestic and industrial applications.


New Naturalness in Design and Color
KRONOTEX is also presenting fashionable new designs in its established collections. What is so striking is the natural appearance and authentic reproduction achieved here. Besides oak, an ideal choice for a rustic interior, the range of current designs is dominated by exotic woods like Jatoba (Brazilian cherry) and Bajam teak as well as several versions of maple and beech. The coloring of the new designs is impressively natural. Dark hues are found mostly in the exotic woods. Larch is the contemporary choice for those who prefer lighter flooring.
“Lived-on” floors are another popular choice. Subtle defects like cracks and knot-holes or signs of wear lend the flooring an authentic look and a deeper texture. You have the impression they have been walked on for generations.

Quiet, Quieter, Sound Design
Sound Design is KRONOTEX’s effective sound-absorbing sub-flooring. It reduces footfall sound and the propagation of sound within a room while increasing walking comfort. Moreover, Sound Design levels out slight irregularities in the floor to create a perfectly level surface. This integrated sound-absorbing layer is available on request for the laminate collections Dynamic Clic, Robusto Clic, Mega Clic and Isilock as well as for the new Engineered Flooring collection.

Further Expansion of Production Capacity
KRONOTEX expanded the capacity of its Brandenburg factory yet again in December 2004 by adding a further production installation. The entire range can be produced on this highly flexible machine fitted incorporating state-of-the-art technology. It guarantees a high output of consistent top quality regardless of dimensions. For example, every single panel is visually checked and measured within fractions of a second. Any panel not within the tolerance ranges is automatically removed. The panels are palletized in a fully automatic process handled by industrial robots.
Parallel to this, new short-cycle coating installations were put into operation. They emboss the fully coordinated grains into the panel surfaces and are thus designed to produce this increasingly important feature of top quality laminate floors. Much narrower tolerance ranges in applying the design paper deliver an even better result and do so in shorter cycle times. The vertical integration and enlarged capacity in production and coating allow KRONOTEX to respond to special customer requests even more flexibly and quickly at every stage of production, from thinnings straight from the forest to the finished panels. Our goal is to offer our customers in the important German market products that set new standards in quality, design and price. We also have plans to expand our sales and distribution world-wide and develop new markets.

Optimized Logistics
KRONOTEX has optimized its logistics by building a high-bay warehouse. The 30-meter high facility accommodates 19,000 Euro pallets. As a result, various products are more readily available and can be delivered more quickly to the customers we currently serve in 80 different countries around the globe. Storage and loading is done fully automatically, virtually eliminating damage to panels.

Laminated Flooring Production Plant Launched in the USA
KRONOTEX USA commenced production of laminate flooring in its factory in Barnwell, South Carolina, at the beginning of 2005.

Heiligengrabe, January 2005

For further information, please contact us at:
Kronotex Fussboden GmbH & Co. KG
Wittstocker Chaussee 1
D-16909 Heiligengrabe, Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 33962 / 69-163; Fax: +49 (0) 33962 / 69-380
E-mail: petzold@kronotex.de

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