Forbo Flooring

Forbo Flooring is the flooring business of Forbo. The company describes its Flooring Systems division as a global provider of premium commercial and residential floor coverings. Its offering includes natural linoleum, vinyl flooring, entrance flooring systems, carpet tiles, needlefelt floor coverings and Flotex, a washable textile flooring. The division also supplies building and construction adhesives and related flooring installation products under the Eurocol brand. The business serves a broad mix of settings. Forbo identifies public buildings, department stores, hospitals and healthcare facilities, schools, libraries, commercial offices, leisure centres, hotels, restaurants and cafeterias among the applications for its flooring products, as well as the residential market. Its materials are presented as combining technical performance and design, with products suited to settings that need hard-wearing, low-maintenance or specialist floor coverings. Forbo’s corporate materials position Flooring Systems alongside Movement Systems, a separate division focused on belts and conveying solutions. Within Flooring Systems, Forbo highlights linoleum as a particularly strong category and states that it has more than 65 percent of the world market share in linoleum. The supplied materials do not specify a founding date, headquarters, named founder, current executives or the legal ownership structure of the Flooring Systems division.

Forbo Flooring is the name used for Forbo’s flooring business, presented in the company’s materials as the Flooring Systems division. The supplied evidence does not establish a founding date or identify a founder, so the business’s early history and date of formation cannot be stated reliably here. The current description presents Flooring Systems as a global supplier serving both commercial and residential markets. Its portfolio spans natural linoleum and vinyl, entrance flooring systems, carpet tiles, needlefelt floor coverings and Flotex, which Forbo describes as washable textile flooring. This range allows the division to address different applications, from public and institutional buildings to hospitality, retail, offices and homes. Forbo’s corporate materials also stress that the products are used in environments where durability, maintenance requirements and technical performance matter. A related part of the division’s offering is building and construction adhesives. Forbo identifies Eurocol as the brand under which Flooring Systems provides ready-made adhesives for flooring installations and ceramic tiles, as well as leveling compounds for the construction industry. The adhesive activity complements the floor-covering portfolio by addressing materials used in installation and preparation. Forbo singles out linoleum as a significant category in its flooring business and states that it has more than 65 percent of the world market share in linoleum. The evidence does not give the date, methodology or market definition for that figure. It should therefore be understood as a claim made in Forbo’s corporate description rather than as an independently verified measurement. In Forbo’s corporate presentation, Flooring Systems operates alongside Movement Systems, which supplies power transmission and conveyor-related products. The available sources describe the Flooring Systems portfolio and its markets but do not document dated launches, acquisitions, leadership changes or other historical turning points. Accordingly, no unsupported chronology is inferred.

A global provider of premium commercial and residential floor coverings, with a broad materials portfolio and a stated leadership position in linoleum.

• Linoleum flooring

  Natural linoleum flooring within the Flooring Systems portfolio.

• Flotex

  Washable textile flooring.

• Eurocol

  Brand for ready-made flooring and ceramic-tile adhesives and construction-industry leveling compounds supplied by Flooring Systems.

1. 1Forbo – flooring. movement.forbo.com
2. 2Forbo Group: Flooring Systems, Movement Systems, Investor Info & Newsforbo.com