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Turn down the volume with Forbo’s new acoustic
project vinyl collection (extract)

Forbo Flooring Systems has launched its new acoustic project vinyl collection, offering the most comprehensive collection of its kind in the world. This outstanding collection can help achieve a complete acoustic flooring solution for any commercial interior with impact sound reduction ranging from 15 to 19 dB.

In today’s modern world we now spend an average of 90% of our time indoors and the demand for acoustic building materials, including acoustic flooring solutions, continues to grow. Research has shown that lessening noise pollution helps to reduce stress and promotes the well-being, comfort and effectiveness of people in their working, living or learning surroundings. An acoustic floorcovering contributes to a harmonious interior by reducing impact sound at its source, lowering noise disturbances within a building, resulting in a more pleasant and soothing environment.

An acoustic floorcovering is therefore the ideal solution for any commercial setting that would benefit from a quieter ambience, including health and aged care settings, open plan offices and public buildings, shops and schools or communal living and reception areas.

Approved Document E and Building B
Each range within the Acoustic Portfolio offers an innovative solution that will deliver high acoustic performance combined with optimal resistance to indentation. A choice of 103 colours and designs ensures that this collection is able to meet not only the high levels of specification required by UK building regulations, such as Approved Document E – 2002 Edition and Building B (BB) 93 – Acoustic Design of Schools (July 2003) but also the flexibility demanded by current interior design trends.

Best in class
Within its comprehensive portfolio comprising Sarlon® quartz, Sarlon® tech, Sarlon® traffic and Eternal wood decibel Forbo is able to deliver the ‘best in class’ in each of these key performance categories: Best acoustic, Best bacteriostatic, Best slip rating, Best indentation and Best stain resistance.

Sarlon® traffic with an impact sound reduction of 19dB offers exceptional acoustic performance in tough environments. It is a comfortable vinyl floor covering that combines the highest impact sound reduction with extremely high wear resistance. It offers an impressive array of colourways and designs and is available in tile and compact versions for design and colour co-ordination possibilities.

Sarlon® quartz offers advanced bacteriostatic performance thanks to its innovative new use of silver ions in the wear layer while the new PUR+ surface finish delivers a high efficiency of stain resistance (even to betadine), ideal for the health and aged care sectors. Delivering performance with style, Sarlon® quartz has impact sound reduction of 17dB and excellent indentation of just 0.08mm.
 
 
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