The hospitality and leisure sector is a branch which covers more or less everything we can do with our spare time. From theatre or stadium visits, hotels or camp sites, dinner or lunch in a restaurant, to relaxing in the sauna.
A visitors experience at any leisure venue is about much more than just the activities they get involved in while there. The impact of the interior scheme and the overall ambiance play a crucial role in giving them the ultimate visitor experience.
From their initial impression on entering the building, right through to where they eat or shop, Forbo's portfolio of products makes it easy for you to choose the perfect flooring to set the tone in your venue.
The impact of the interior scheme and the overall ambiance play a crucial role in giving them the ultimate visitor experience.
Products to use in Leisure & Hospitality
By keeping out dirt and moisture at the entrance, cleaning costs can be cut by up to 65%. Our Nuway collection is the recognized market leader in engineered entrance flooring systems. Nuway entrance systems provide an outstanding first line of defense against soil and moisture entering a building, on the soles of shoes and the treads of wheeled traffic. It helps to keep your interior floor coverings dryer and cleaner whilst also preventing slips.
Our Coral collection has been the market leading, textile entrance flooring brand for 50 years. It offers more choice than ever before with attractive and sustainable clean-off systems and is available in styles and constructions to suit all applications, budgets and aesthetic requirements. Coral entrance floors can prolong the life of your floor as well as greatly reduce cleaning costs and the risk of slipping.
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Fotex is a unique textile floor covering that combines the hard wearing and durable characteristics of a resilient floor with the quality, warmth and comfort of a carpet. Flotex is a strong and hygienic floor, and being completely waterproof, it is also the only truly washable textile floor. Explore the collections below or watch the Flotex video for inspiration.
There are over 46,000 fibers per in² in Flotex, which provide a slip resistant surface in both wet and dry conditions. Flotex fibres are flexible and comfortable under foot and thanks to their density and strength they return to their original shape.
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Our Marmoleum floor coverings are natural floors associated with sustainability, durability, high quality and innovative designs.
Marmoleum is made from natural raw materials and is the most sustainable flooring choice. It is a CO2 neutral produced floor covering, measured from cradle to gate. The more than 300 colors & designs allow for beautiful, colorful floor designs.
All Marmoleum floors have a Topshield pro finish, meaning they are scratch and scuff resistant, which makes it an easy to maintain flooring with long lasting appearance retention.
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Are you looking for the aesthetics of natural wood and stone floors with the advantages of strong and comfortable vinyl tiles? Explore our Allura LVT collections. Warm underfoot, excellent dimensional stability, easy installation and maintenance. We offer our LVT designs in several constructions to make sure there is always a suitable choice for your application.
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A general purpose vinyl is perfect for waiting areas where a durable solution is key. Eternal is available in realistic wood effects, stone and abstract designs, a broad palette of colors and some digitally printed visuals which are designed to inspire.
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Step is perfect for areas prone to spillages, the Step collection offers varying levels of slip resistance from R10-R12. PUR pearl finish means Step is resistant to scuff marks and improves the ease of cleaning and maintenance. Particles in the wear layer of all Forbo Step safety floors guarantee lifetime sustainable slip resistance. Step is available in over 60 designs in wood and stone effects.
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The SMART-top surface finish ensures that Sphera has a high resistance to chemicals, scratches and stains, which makes it a perfect flooring solution for high traffic environments. Sphera is a homogeneous vinyl which is easy to clean and phthalate free, which provides a hygienic indoor environment. The in-line coating and subsequent embossing ensure superior appearance and durability.
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Image is probably the most important factor, which is why companies in the hospitality and leisure branch all try to create their own unique experience. Many owners want to make their mark on the interior. There are countless options of course, though we mustn’t forget that interiors also need to move with the times and therefore don’t always need to last for decades.
So decide beforehand how long your furniture and floor must last. Are you looking for a floor for the next 20 years? A timeless design floor such as Marmoleum is the ideal choice. If a shorter life cycle is acceptable, a more outspoken flooring can also be an option.
When designing a digitally printed floor, it can be quirky as you like. A fairytale landscape, champagne bubbles or motorway cutting across your restaurant? No problem. A floor with a unique print certainly reinforces your identity. It can also contribute to routing, which can be very advantageous, working constructively and sometimes also lowering thresholds. The quality is extremely important, what could be worse than seeing the design which is your heart and soul becoming shabby because the print is not properly protected?
Within our Custom Design flooring you can design your own unique floor with our digital print techniques in Flotex, Eternal project vinyl and Coral entrance flooring and the refined Waterjet cutting technique for Marmoleum flooring.
There are virtually no limits to what can be achieved in terms of aesthetic design, color and intricate detailing.
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Fact: First impressions are crucial in this sector.
As Flotex flocked flooring has over 46,000 fibers per in², it provides a unique high density substrate for printing. As a result, vibrant designs and true to life visuals can be printed in high level photographic resolutions. All desired color shades, tones and hues can be achieved.
Digital print offers an infinite number of design options ranging from abstracts with an intricate color spectre to realistic images of grass, sand or water, or any picture projected on your floor. Create 3D depth or a “trompe l‘oeil” effect on your floor.
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Are you looking for something unique on your floor? That is also sustainable and durable? Our Designing with Marmoleum selection offers you just that. With our Waterjet technique we can create the most precise and detailed floor designs. From laser engraved Marmoleum tiles to exciting designs created by international designers.
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Great looks for a great welcome. Forbo offers a bespoke print and cut-out design service to create your own unique entrance mat. Forbo Coral Logo entrance flooring will retain its looks whilst keeping out dirt and moist for years to come.
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Acoustics plays an important role in many sub sectors within the leisure segment, and the acoustics requirements will vary from establishment to establishment. For hotel owners, transfer of noise to neighbouring rooms and rooms located below must be limited where possible, while acoustics is a total package which is essential in raising perception to a higher level in a theatre or cinema.
Carpet is therefore a popular choice in hotels, because it greatly reduces contact noise. Another floor solution within the leisure segment is the hybrid form which is somewhere between hard and soft flooring. A floor which feels soft but has a waterproof back, made from nylon and nylon fibres, for example. It gives the look and feel of a carpet but is suitable for wet cleaning like a hard floor. Hygiene and great contact noise reduction in one and the same floor therefore.
Fact: People talk even more loudly when there is a lot of noise.
This type of floor is also increasingly used in cinemas and theatres because of the ease of maintenance and cleaning. As already mentioned, such flooring helps contribute to good acoustics, especially in terms of absorption of walking noise.
Contact noise often also plays a role in restaurants and pubs. The less you hear of chairs being moved around and/or ‘clickclack’ stiletto heels, the easier a conversation becomes. A hybrid product is a good flooring solution in these areas, being easy to clean thanks to the vinyl back, and absorbing noise through the textile top layer. Flotex is an example of such a hybrid floor: a high-tech flooring which looks like carpet and feels warm and comfortable.
An alternative could be to fit a standard vinyl floor: it gives much less walking noise and other annoying contact noises than wood, for example, and can simply be wiped clean. Vinyl floors offer no end of possibilities in terms of looks: wood, concrete, colours; virtually anything goes. It can even be digitally printed with any image, pattern, logo or artwork of your choice.
And finally, some technical data. Flotex gives a contact noise reduction of 20 dB, the average carpet tile 23 dB and the new special soft back tiles no less than 28 dB. Would you prefer a hard floor? There are acoustic versions of Marmoleum and project vinyl, which can reduce noise transfer by maximum 17 dB.
Many Leisure & Hospitality facilities worldwide are using Forbo floor coverings. Visit our reference section and get inspired by worldwide reference project.
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To create your floor and make up your mind what would fit best we have several tools and services. Our FloorVisualizer helps you to place our floors in any environment. Upload a picture of your room to the FloorVisualizer and combine several floors so you can see how it looks.
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The responsibility for forging global partnerships with key clients is entrusted to our most experienced Key Account Managers. Dedicated to customer care, their only remit is to ensure that Forbo delivers a flooring solution that is ideally suited to your needs.
• We can supply international quotations and have experience with international order processes and local regulations
• We manage international logistics
• We have 20 years partnerships with worldwide customers
As a global partner we stand next to you on a local level. Our design team can offer guidance and assistance as required. Our technicians speak the language of the flooring installers and in this way everybody is aligned.
• Forbo Flooring Systems is part of the Swiss Forbo Group
• Key figures Forbo Group 2019:
> Net sales 1282.2 CHF Mio
> Employees 5.600
• A worldwide presence:
> 25 production facilities and distribution companies
> 6 assembly centers
> 48 pure sales organizations in a total of 38 countries across the globe
• European manufacturer with factories in The United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and Russia.
• European logistics and responsiveness
We care about you and the environment
• We have received various labels and certification for your products and or production facilities.
• All of our manufacturing sites are ISO certified. Raw materials are used efficiently, waste is recycled whenever possible.
• We are committed to social responsibility, the Forbo sites are certified according to SA8000.
creating better environments
We offer you:
• A sole source of supply for all your flooring requirements
• Local advice, support and cross border project management
• Efficiencies of scale, certainty of supply and rapid delivery
Above all one single contract and one single point of contact to save you time and money.
Local teams working with local representatives
Throughout the duration of a project, your Forbo Key Account Manager serves as your single point of contact for any questions, from anywhere in the world.
We believe that this approach saves you time, eliminate hassle and uncertainty and ensures consistency and reliability, no matter how complex your project.
