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The Australian Select Timbers Difference
Over the last ten years, prefinished engineered timber flooring has become the fastest growing flooring type in Australian homes and commercial interiors. Engineered timber flooring and cost-effective flooring types like laminate and hybrids are in high demand and flooring wholesaler Australian Select Timbers sources the best materials to create stunning [...]
Focus On Australian Panels
What is the Australian Panels story? Australian Panels is Australia’s leading manufacturer of engineered board products for all joinery, flooring and wall applications. Manufactured products include a range of raw and decorative products, from made-to-order doors, flooring, shelving and components, and prefinished panels. Australian Panels products are designed [...]
Slab Falls Take Lives
Every year workers are injured and often killed in accidents involving stone slabs falling. In addition to the suffering of workers and their families, employers are often left with poor morale and reduced productivity from other employees in the company. These injuries are preventable. A storeman was crushed under 22 [...]
Focus on Dunlop Flooring
Dunlop Flooring has been pioneering its way through Australia’s flooring industry since man landed on the moon. Over the last decade, the company has been through a transformational journey, having positioned themselves not only within underlay but the hard flooring category as well. Dunlop Flooring has seen a major trend [...]
The important role building design plays for the vision impaired
According to the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), there are 1.1 billion people globally living with vision loss, and a further 2 to 3 billion needing ongoing access to eye care services. In Australasia alone, there are an estimated 1.6 million people with vision loss and of [...]
Polysafe Quicklay – rewriting the rules on subfloor preparation
As the market for looselay, easier installation flooring materials continues to gradually develop, the timing is now right for the launch of Polysafe Quicklay, Polyflor’s first looselay safety flooring collection. Specifically designed to be a practical choice for contractors and specifiers alike, the Quicklay installation method saves considerable time and [...]
Is a silicosis free stonework factory possible?
Pacific Stone proves the answer is yes. “There is a really bad stigma in the industry that if you work with stone you will get silicosis. If you work with a bad factory, then yes, you will die eventually, but if you work with a factory that has great practices, [...]