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Bonar Floors Wins Textile Category in the 2009 FESPA Digital (extract)
UK-based flooring solutions provider Bonar Floors (now trading as Forbo Flooring Systems*) has been named Textile Category winner in the FESPA Digital Print Awards 2009, supported by HP.

Beating stiff competition in this increasingly popular category to win the Textile Award, Bonar Floors were singled out for their innovative floor solutions. Milan-based architectural practice Sottsass Associati approached Bonar Floors to produce a range of original designs using Bonar Floors’ flocked flooring - a unique, velvety, minimalist textile floor cladding. The Milanese company had never worked with the material, so it created an interesting design challenge being the first company to exploit high definition digital printing techniques on flocked flooring.

Bonar Floors overcame a number of obstacles to effectively fulfill the client brief. The Reggiani Giano machine, a clothing textile printer, was specially adapted to meet the requirements needed to create the innovative flocked flooring solution. The flock, which is 2mm long, had to be dyed and fixed to its roots – Bonar Floors has a 10-year quality guarantee that had to be met – so its design team and colorist research technicians worked with the Reggiani machine experts for 18 months to achieve the desired results. The machine also needed a specially acclimatised chamber, which meant that the entire facility was moved from one part of the factory to another to achieve the optimum operating environment. 
 
> Sottsass FESPA Textile winner (full press release)