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nora floor coverings are GREENGUARD Indoor Air Quality Certified® and meet the standard for GREENGUARD Indoor Air Quality Certification for Children and Schools™, contributing to healthier indoor air. They are also PVC-free and made of high quality rubber, mineral fillers and environmentally compatible color pigments. Finally, in addition to their environmental and maintenance friendly benefits, noraplan environcare products feature excellent wear and slip resistance.
More than 50 years ago Freudenberg Building Systems, Inc., a member of the multi-national Freudenberg Group, with U.S. headquarters in Lawrence, Mass., recognized the advantages rubber offered the flooring industry and began manufacturing nora® rubber flooring. Today, nora rubber flooring is the market leader in commercial rubber flooring, with a market share of more than 80 percent in Germany and more than 50 percent worldwide. The nora rubber flooring system includes noraplan® and norament® matching floor coverings, in both tile and sheet rubber flooring, stairtreads and accessories. Together, these lines provide solutions for the toughest floor covering problems in an environmentally sensitive way, enabling architects and interior designers to achieve inspired design and exceptional performance. nora rubber flooring systems are available in a broad range of exciting colors and patterns compatible with today's architectural trends to help create bold and innovative flooring designs that blend naturally into all interior design concepts. Matching coverings and accessories, from classical to modern styles, allow for harmony of design and functionality throughout a facility, regardless of differing traffic categories or specialized requirements. New colors and patterns are under development, along with new design tools that will further support designers' efforts to select the best nora flooring for virtually any design concept. All nora products are extremely wear-resistant for longer life, dirt-repellent for easy care and lower maintenance costs, flame retardant and impact-resistant for safety and increased longevity, and permanently resilient for comfort underfoot. They also offer high footfall sound absorption, resistance to oils, grease and chemicals, and electrostatic dissipation protection. In keeping with our corporate philosophy to protect the environment and our natural resources, nora products contain high quality renewable/natural rubber, recycled rubber, abundant natural fillers and environmentally compatible color pigments and are free of PVC, plasticizers, and halogens. nora products are manufactured by Freudenberg Building Systems, Inc. to meet the strictest requirements of many different environments including healthcare, retail, hospitality, industry, schools and transportation. nora products have been successfully incorporated in some of the most demanding environments worldwide, including JFK Airport (New York), the New York City Transit System (subway cars), the Statue of Liberty, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, Qualcomm Stadium (San Diego), Kansai Airport (Japan), Frankfurt Airport (Germany) and approximately 150 other airports, as well as clinics, schools, museums, offices, government and other public facilities, production facilities, shops, gymnasiums, residential buildings, golf clubs, skating rinks, trains and ships in more than 120 countries. For additional information about nora rubber flooring, visit the company's Web site a www.norarubber.com.
