Forbo News overview

Christmas closure and order cut-off dates

Forbo Flooring Systems Australia will be closed for the Christmas holiday from Friday 20th December 2024 at 4:00 pm and reopen on Thursday 2nd January 2025 at 8:30 am AEST.

To meet your end-of-year schedule, please be aware of the order cut-off dates to ensure timely delivery before Christmas, please contact our Customer service team at 1800 224 471 to discuss urgent orders and confirm delivery dates.

Sampling service
Sampling Services will close at 12:00 PM (AEST time) on Friday 20th of December 2024. Samples can still be ordered online; however, please note that despatch for these orders will not commence until Monday, January 6th, 2025.

We thank you for your support through 2024 and look forward to a new year of partnership!

Forbo is a proud founding member of ResiLoop

Forbo Flooring Systems is proud to be one of the leading suppliers of resilient floor coverings and a founding member of ResiLoop, Australia’s first national stewardship scheme for resilient flooring.

ResiLoop, the industry driven initiative by the Australian Resilient Flooring Association (ARFA), is dedicated to researching and designing an Australian resilient flooring product stewardship scheme.

This program aims to address the challenges presented by past, current and future consumption of resilient floorcoverings in Australia.

Connect with modern nature: Forbo's new Marmoleum Solid collection

Building on the success of its climate positive Marmoleum flooring, Forbo Flooring Systems continues to push forward, updating the Marmoleum Solid collection to support the enduring trend for contemporary interiors that connect with modern nature.

Refreshed and contemporary, the new colour palette features muted and neutral tones, providing architects and designers with a high-end flooring option made using 98% natural raw materials – independently certified Climate Positive cradle to gate and importantly, without offsetting. Arranged intuitively in four go-to collections, the plastic-free Marmoleum Solid collection comprises 72 colourways, 26 of which are new – all future orientated and modern in character.

Forbo launches new dementia-friendly flooring range

Recognising the need for inclusive spaces, Forbo Flooring Systems has launched its new Surestep Balance range, a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) compliant safety flooring that can fit the aesthetic and functional requirements for dementia-friendly environments.

Forming part of a wider refresh to its Step safety flooring, Surestep Balance has been designed specifically with dementia-friendly environments in mind. Featuring eight colourways with a subtle speckled, minimalist matte effect, Surestep Balance will help to create contemporary, inclusive flooring schemes.

Introducing Forbo's New Acoustic Collection

With various studies documenting the negative effects unwanted noise can have on peoples’ well-being , Forbo Flooring Systems has developed a new Acoustic Collection. Combining its well-established Sarlon acoustic vinyl range with its award-winning Modul’up adhesive free solutions, the new collection will be the go-to reference point for any project where impact-sound needs to be minimised. What’s more, with 94 contemporary designs to choose from, the aesthetics of an interior no longer need to be compromised when it comes to acoustic performance.

Forbo’s new Acoustic Collection offers a diverse portfolio of products available in adhesive free or traditional fully adhered formats in acoustic, compact and compact acoustic versions. It consists of Forbo’s industry leading acoustic sheet vinyl Sarlon 19 dB and Sarlon 15 dB, and its innovative adhesive free vinyl solutions Modul’up 19 dB and Modul’up Compact.

The four solutions are available in all 94 designs, which have been split into the following design families: Wood, Material, Colour and Graphic, and include new digitally printed items.

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It's all Under Control thanks to Forbo

The newly created “Under Control” collection from Forbo Flooring Systems provides specifiers with a diverse array of flooring products to help control static discharge in sensitive areas of a building. The collection features its popular Colorex tile range, refreshed to include two new products, and Sphera SD/EC, a technically advanced homogeneous conductive sheet vinyl range.

Completely new to the market, Sphera SD/EC has been designed to ease installation in critical areas thanks to the special conductive backing, which is applied directly to the sheet material, allowing the charges to flow away horizontally within the flooring. As a result, only the copper earthing strip needs to be adhered with a conductive adhesive, while the rest of the Sphera material can be applied with a regular adhesive, reducing the risk of adhesion failure and saving up to one third on adhesive costs.

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