FLOORING
Engineered Floors reinvents flooring with Hymmen Dalton, US-based Engineered Floors disrupts the flooring industry with its Digital Print LVT technology, alongside their technology partner Hymmen.
High-end flooring surfaces produced by Engineered Floors
HYMMEN TECHNOLOGY The ability to produce high-quality digitally printed flooring has become strategically important for the future of the global flooring industry. Hymmen has invented technologies for the production and digital decoration of flooring. The developer of flooring technologies entered a technology partnership with i4F, a group of companies providing patents and technologies dedicated to delivering the world’s best and most cutting-edge technologies to the global flooring industry. This includes exclusive licensing rights for all Hymmen’s digital printing patents and technologies for flooring production, such as Hymmen’s Digital Lacquer Embossing (DLE) technology. The journey of a blank plank to an aesthetic digitally printed LVT product in the Dalton plant of Engineered Floors involves the specialty
“LVT reinvented”: This is the opener of Engineered Floors’ latest image video. Using digital embossing technology, a grain structure is built up on the surface of the board, creating an exact texture match to the design. This provides the closest authentic wood look and feel compared to other products on the market. Each decor starts from real wood, designed with 35 unique plank patterns compared to traditional film products. With high-resolution digital printing, it is possible to achieve sharper details and a vivid colour spectrum. The increased dots per inch (DPI) lead to the High-Def colour clarity, allowing the flooring manufacturer Engineered Floors to create industry-disrupting products. Engineered Floors emphasised that there is at least five times more colour clarity with the digitally printed products compared to
traditional film products. Additionally, with the flooring product PureGrain, durability is also enhanced. The flooring offers the realistic look and feel of actual wood: The collection includes modern light looks as well as darker designs. They can be used in any type of room, be it living rooms, bedrooms, and halls as well as in bathrooms, due to their water resistance and durability. Engineered Floors reported that PureGrain products are 100% “American Made, American Sourced and American Owned”. That includes advantages concerning the fast and easy access to the product — which means there is minimal waiting on international shipping. And the digitally printed directly to a high-density rigid core for high-quality realism is independent of possible international trade restrictions.
52 PANELS & FURNITURE ASIA | SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2024
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