NATURAL CHOICE: Made from fully biodegradable components, the Marmoleum range from Forbo Flooring provides an ecological edge

摘要

WITH OVER 2,500 employees, eight manufacturing units and branches in 30 countries, Forbo Flooring offers a wide range of flooring products, including linoleum, project vinyl, cushion vinyl, conductive flooring and parquetry. Indeed, the company is a leading supplier of linoleum flooring products with a 60% global share - Marmoleum is its leading brand in this area. With its products sold in over 60 countries, the company claims the length of its annual installed product would easily wrap around the globe four times over. Marmoleum - which is used in many large healthcare and educational projects around the world - is currently enjoying a growing share of the railway industry, with the majority of trains in the Benelux region and a growing number of carriages in the rest of Europe realising the product's benefits. "Marmoleum is the preferred floor covering from an ecological point of view," explains Forbo's Wouter van Meegdenburg, key account manager, transportation. Manufactured from linseed oil, rosin, wood flour, limestone, pigments and jute, it is fully biodegradable. The natural ingredients limit the development of toxic smoke during a fire and this gives it an important advantage over other kinds of floor covering.