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The daily variety and new challenges associated with the
development of new technologies and man management
are exciting. It’s gratifying to be able to pass on my
accumulated experience.
Conrad Huhn

without V-shaped joints, special varnish or for There’s a nice illustration of the structure of a
especially thick, long or wide panels, etc. This panel at the end of this brochure. The automated
enables us to respond quickly and flexibly to quality control of the panels is of course very
different customer requests and orders and to important at the end, before they are packaged.
offer such a large variety of floors.
And now for a few more figures please:
So what production steps are required to What can your floor production systems manage
make a panel? per month on average?
Round timber from sustainably managed forests On all 7 of our floor production systems, the
is processed into wood fibre and then pressed material is changed 950 times a month and the
to form high-density fibreboard (HDF) using a decor 690 times. The thickness is changed 50
small amount of formaldehyde-free adhesive. times a month, the colour of the V-shaped joint
The decor is either attached to this substrate or 250 times and the profile 23 times. So there’s no
printed directly onto it. Then the panel is sealed danger of boredom setting in with us.
with melamine and given a surface texture. These
large-format, semi-finished products are then cut
to blanks on the panel saws. The profile is then
milled to the specified length and width with a
special varnish applied to the edge to match the
decor, and, if necessary, the floor is given footfall
sound protection – depending on the product.