Kronotex Laminate
Floors
Kronotex
U.S.A., Inc.
is a wholly owned subsidiary of
the KronoGroup Switzerland. As an integral part of the
company’s worldwide strategy, Kronotex constructed a modernized
manufacturing facility in Barnwell, S.C. in
2005.
Our business
is to serve a select group of distributors and larger
retailers, and to provide information and direction to
consumers interested in our products. We maintain inventories
in Barnwell, SC and Savannah, GA, and do business across the
USA, Canada, and
Mexico.
The roots of our parent company, KronoGroup Switzerland reach
back to the construction of a sawmill in Lungotz, Austria in
1897. The sole ownership of the company has always remained
within the founding family and today the total annual sales
revenue of the Group exceeds $1 billion. With headquarters in
Lucerne, Switzerland, the Group operates nine independent
manufacturing companies in Europe at the following seven
locations:
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Kronotex GmbH & Co KG Heiligengrabe,
Germany
Kronotex Fussboden GmbH & Co KG
Heiligengrabe, Germany
Kronoply GmbH & Co KG Heiligengrabe,
Germany
KronoSwiss (Kronospan AG) Menznau,
Switzerland
Kronofrance SA Sully sur Loire, France
Kronopol Sp.zo.o Zary, Poland
Interspan Kft. Vasarosnmeny, Hungary
KronoLviv Kamjanka-Buz`ka, Ukraine
Kronostar Kostroma,
Russia
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These factories are vertically integrated to manufacture
virtually all of the component parts of the finished products
within the same or adjacent factories. The primary products are
particleboard, MDF and OSB wood panels; decorative, wear
resistant and balancing melamine impregnated overlays and
thermosetting resins. These primary components are then further
fabricated by laminating, finishing, cutting and machining to
create products like laminate flooring, cabinet and furniture
parts, wall paneling and structural building panels for sale to
construction, industrial and consumer markets.
The Group currently operates a total of twenty laminate
flooring lines on an annual 7-day 52-week schedule. Kronotex
Fussboden alone manufactures over 500 million square feet
annually, making it the world’s largest laminate flooring
factory. It is because of this large scale, vertically
integrated cost structure and the use of the most advanced,
automated high speed technology available that enables Kronotex
to deliver the highest quality product at the lowest cost
possible to over 80 countries around the world.
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