Domotex To Feature Innovations in All Categories
Hannover, Germany, Jan. 6, 2015 -- Domotex 2015, which runs Jan. 17-20, will once again feature the best of floorcovering in all categories.
Modern hand-made carpets are always a major attraction at the show. One feature this year is Paulig’s Century Art design, a kind of layer-upon-layer collage of a wall in which hints of motifs appear to peep out from beneath old wallpaper.
Another feature is a photo-real wool embodiment of London’s Greenwich foot tunnel created by the German label Floor to Heaven.
Some carpets are designed to be statement. One such carpet is “Frozen” – a textile commentary on global warming by Austria’s Beate van Harten. Another is “Canvas” – an anti-war protest made of recycled army tents.
Manufacturers of wall-to-wall carpet will show new materials, yarns and fibers to sizings and production methods. The Dutch manufacturers, for example, have groundbreaking ideas when it comes to recycling, organizers said, as will be evident from Edel Tapijt’s “Majestic,” the world’s first fitted carpet made 100% from recycled PET bottles, and Robusta’s “Bouclé Flame,” a polyamide yarn made from recycled carpets, ropes and fishing nets.
Resilient manufacturers will also have a major presence. Advanced manufacturing techniques have given resilient floor coverings realism that is barely distinguishable from the natural materials that inspire them
Also, one trend in resilient flooring is the move towards making installation easier. For instance, some manufacturers offer tiles that have click-fit locking systems on all four sides, making them easier to install.
Many coverings in the resilient segment are either recyclable, made from recycled materials themselves, and/or feature glueless installation – as in the case of the woven PVC tiles offered by Nox Corporation of South Korea.
In the parquet and laminate flooring segment, oak is big at the moment. There are also specialty oaks, such as the Lithuanian bog oak that is the mainstay of the floorboards offered by UAB Grigo Studija.
Then there are new, curved parquet boards, such as those supplied by the Dutch firm Parketfabriek Lieverdink, which make for unusual laying patterns. Still other options include black PVC joints between boards to create a ship-deck look.
The installation technology section of Domotex is dedicated to bringing maximum ease of use and simplicity to the hands-on, “behind-the-scenes” aspects of floor coverings.
For example, Astech has developed a screwless system for fixing timber and wood-plastic composite decking boards in outdoor areas.