8 best floorboard manufacturers

The third position in our ranking of the best manufacturers of wood flooring is Haro Parquet. HARO belongs to the German concern Hamberger Industriewerke GmbH.The company was founded in 1866 as a small sawmill. Today, the world leader in the production of flooring has grown from a small family business. The company supplies to 90 countries of the world and is in the European TOP-3 manufacturers of parquet, cork and laminated floors.

HARO is a good premium floorboard made from renewable forest areas. Processing is carried out on modern equipment using funds that do not contain solvents and toxic compositions. Produced under two main brands:

• Haro Parquet;
• Markettmanufaktur der Haro.

Haro is certified to the following standards:

• environmental safety Der Blaue Engel;
• EPH (German Institute for Construction Technology);
• PEFC (International Forest Certification Program);
• Emissions Dans L’air Interieur А + (French Sanitary Certificate);
• Ü-Zeichen is a sign of high safety for consumers.

The surface is protected by wear-resistant coating. Depending on the series are used:

• parquet polyurethane varnish Permadur;
• BioTec oil wax composition;
• a mixture of natural oils naturaLinplus.

Installation of floorboard produced:

• Glueless way to Top Connect locks;
• Adhesion method - for series with adhesive ComforTec. (designed for extra large spaces).

The second contender for the title of the best floorboard manufacturer is the company Weitzer Parkett. The Austrian factory with almost 185 years of history is considered one of the oldest manufacturers of wood finishing materials. In 1831, it was conceived as a family business. Since 1955, begins to produce parquet structures. Today, there are 3,500 items in the range, starting with a piece array and ending with one of the best-in-class parquet multilayer structures.

A rare company can boast of actively cooperating with Greenpeace, confirming the title of the most environmentally responsible manufacturer.

The motto Weizer Parquet - intelligent solutions for parquet floors. All the implemented know-how of the plant is aimed primarily at improving the operational comfort of products and improving its characteristics. So, Weitzer Parkett - the first plant that offered the floorboard with built-in noise insulation. For our apartment buildings, this is the most urgent problem, therefore Weitzer's Silent Floors is a sought-after solution.

All Weitzer Parkett products meet the stringent EU quality requirements, therefore:

• Assigned to the environmental protection mark Der Blaue Engel;
• An EPH (German Institute of Construction Equipment) certificate has been obtained, authorizing the sale of products on the German market and confirming compliance with the low emission rate of toxic substances;
• Emissions Dans L’air Interieur (French Sanitary Certificate) - emission class A +;
• PEFC (International Forest Certification Program);
• Gold certificate of Greenguard, which allows the use of products in children's and medical institutions;
• FSC Certificate (Forest Stewardship Council).

In the fourth place of the rating - perhaps the most popular manufacturer of floorboard in Russia. Tarket company began production of parquet boards from the beginning of the 60s. last century. Initially it was a glue product, but at the end of the 90s. one of the most successful forms of the patented glueless joint, now called TC`Lock, is being developed.

The Swedish concern can be called the most famous in Russia. Today in the assortment, in addition to linoleum and laminate, there is a parquet board under the brands:

• Tarkett: luxury flooring with a top layer of oak, ash, beech, mahogany, transverse and longitudinal merbau saw cut. The thickness of the products - 14 mm, production - Serbia, Sweden, Poland.
• Sinteros: budget series of varnished parquet boards, veneered with oak, ash and beech wood. The cross section of the slats is 13.2 mm, manufactured in factories in Serbia and Russia.

Tarkett line includes 11 collections. This is more than 200 designs of traditional and extraordinary colors, including bronze, graphite, much more. All collections have a protective coating of varnish or oil, complemented by the wax protection of AquaGuard interlocks. Some designs have applied special processing techniques, such as deep brushing, thermofoil, chamfer, etc.

In the Sinteros series there are 3 collections of one-and three-lane boards with a classic smooth surface of soothing shades under wear-resistant PU varnish.

The parquet board is issued for household, commercial and sports use. All products have the appropriate certification, including:

• A full package of documents from the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare;
• Official permission to use the eco-label "Leaf of Life";
• Confirmed compliance with EU standards “Cradle-to-Cradle” (ecological product life cycle).

Fifth place in the ranking of the best manufacturers of the parquet belongs to the company Upofloor with the very popular Karelia brand in the domestic market.

Finnish flooring manufacturer Upofloor Oy began its production of vinyl materials in 1955 in the city with the telling name Nokia. Only in 1981, with the establishment of a subsidiary company Karelia Parketti, wooden products for the floor under the brand of Upoflore appeared in the assortment of the concern.

In 1991 Karelia Parketti buys out the Tuupovaarsky plant and in 1992 the first batch of floorboard under the same-name brand Karelia comes off the line.

In 2000, both companies merge into one, the scope of activities expands and in the next 10 years, multi-layer parquet is sold for sale under the brands:

• Premium Series - Upofloor and Karelia;
• Economy segment - Focus Wood, Polarwood, Woodpecker and others.

Since 2012, the manufacturer becomes part of the Kahrs group of companies. Respectively:

• The product line is expanding significantly;
• The system of certification and control of all production processes is being tightened;
• At all enterprises, Chers environmental safety policy standards are being introduced. This means that products are tested according to criteria such as operational convenience, health safety, and wood treatment compounds containing toxic substances are excluded from the process chain.

The main direction of the Upoflor-Karelia group is the production of parquet flooring for residential and office premises. Therefore, all goods are certified for safety in the following areas:

• FEP (European Federation of Parquet Manufacturers)
• CE - Compliance with EU safety and health certification standards
• Emission class M1, corresponding to the Russian E0.

In 1895, the Boen sawmill is widely known in Norway. In 1967In Germany, a factory was built for the production of multi-layer flooring under a subsidiary of Th. Höhns KG, GmbH. Thanks to the competent management, the company began to actively supply the European market with new flooring materials - floorboards under the same-name brand. According to the results of 2003, it was officially announced that the enlarged group was supplying 50 countries of the world, including North and South America.

In 2013, the Norwegian Boen and the Swiss Bauwerk Parkett merged by organizing the Bauwerk Boen group of companies. The concern officially became the second largest participant in the wood coatings market.

All products have certificates:

• environmental safety Der Blaue Engel;
• FSC (Forest Stewardship Council)
• PEFC (International Forest Certification Program);

The Polish group of companies Barlinek-O has existed for more than a century. Since 1975, production has been reoriented to the production of parquet boards under the same brand, which experts refer to the premium class. It is produced from oak and ash wood, which are grown on its own renewable forest land. The assortment also includes products from exotic species - African sapelli and tali, Brazilian jatoba, Indonesian merbau and others.

Thanks to the effectiveness of investment injections made in 1999 and 2014, the production process has been completely reorganized in accordance with the new requirements for the safety of people and the environment.

Sanitary and hygienic safety of Barlinek products is proved by certificates:

• FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) Forest Stewardship Council, confirming the use of wood from certified land;
• CE - EU safety and health certification standards;
• Emissions Dans L’air Interieur (French Sanitary Certificate), assigning Barlinek products an emission class A +.

Closes our ranking of the best domestic manufacturer of floorboard. The Russian plant LLC Amber Wood began its work relatively recently - in 2005, the city of Dalnorechensk (Primorsky Krai). Nevertheless, the company has loudly declared itself and is already supplying its floorboard throughout Russia. In the production, wood of the Far Eastern oak and ash is used, that is, precisely those species that showed themselves perfectly in the changing Russian climate.

Due to high-quality drying and modern equipment, the plant offers good products at affordable prices. Applications: apartments, houses, offices and other premises that require coatings of 32 wear resistance classes.

Sanitary and hygienic safety of products is confirmed by the expert opinion of the Federal State Institutes of Health "The main center of hygiene and epidemiology of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency."