Flooring within the home or commercial environment is an opportunity to inject individuality and style into interior spaces. As a leading supplier of functional flooring solutions, Polyflor are committed to supplying the latest in contemporary flooring design and technology with an assurance of product superiority, customer service and value for money.

Polyflor create beautiful and functional flooring solutions for the home or commercial environment. The range of products caters to those looking for superior quality but also to those looking for unique solutions like sustainable slip resistance, acoustic noise reduction, rubber and sports flooring. Polyflor is proficient in aged care; education and childcare; healthcare; hospitality; office; public; retail; sports and gym, and transport sectors. As a world-wide provider of flooring products, Polyflor can deliver a quality outcome in any situation imaginable. Whatever your needs, chances are that Polyflor has delivered a similar solution before.

The Polyflor Story

Polyflor is a subsidiary of the James Halstead Corporation. The family started the company back in 1915 in Manchester in the United Kingdom and are still majority partners in the business. Polyflor is a fourth generation family business; the family still lives on-site and are still heavily involved in running the business. In 1954 the company began to expand both in the United Kingdom and overseas, starting a subsidiary here in Australia and New Zealand in 1963. Over almost fifty years since that time, Polyflor have developed an extensive network of agents, distributors and wholly-owned subsidiaries throughout all markets, to ensure excellent product and sample availability.

In 1983 Polyflor started developing new and innovative products to cater for the demands of the changing flooring industry around the world, and this continuous development continues to this day and into the future. They constantly improve processes and products to reflect the changing demands of the marketplace, enhancing and expanding their product portfolio to provide added value for their customers. To achieve these goals, the company have invested sixty one million Australian dollars in plant and equipment at their UK production facility over the last ten years.

Polyflor is now a major manufacturer of resilient flooring products for commercial and domestic customers, operating successfully throughout the world. In addition to commercial sheet produced in their UK facility, Polyflor also distribute resilient LVT (Luxury Vinyl Tiles) for both domestic clients and more recently, commercial spaces where a warmer aesthetic is needed. Polyflor offer their customers a wide variety of flooring solutions to suit any demand. Polyflor is a quality driven company, their manufacturing processes and systems are ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 accredited.

Mark Van Leerdam is Polyflor’s Australian General Manager. Like many of Polyflor’s people, Mark has been in the industry 20-odd years. He said, “Resilient flooring covers both the high and low ends of the market, with a lot of the lower end originating in Asia. It’s important from a quality viewpoint that the product being laid is of an appropriate standard for the intended use. Polyflor resilient sheets are produced with high durability, are hard wearing and fit for purpose, especially in high traffic areas such as hospitals.” He adds, “Ultimately, we want to make business easy for our customers. We are easy to deal with, we have warehouses nationally, and just having good conversations that lead to good outcomes for everyone.”

Polyflor and the Environment

Polyflor Australia is a signatory to The Vinyl Council of Australia Product Stewardship Program. This program has a number of voluntary commitments that ensure that the entire process from raw materials through to end of life of vinyl products is reviewed and addressed to minimise environmental and safety issues within the vinyl industry, on a local and global scale. As a manufacturer, Polyflor take their contribution seriously.

Polyflor believe that the products we choose can help us design for a better environment, both inside and out. Their collection of vinyl flooring, suitable for a variety of commercial and residential applications, makes a big impact on the look of a space, but a small impact on the earth. Quality flooring products must be environmental and sustainable. Specifiers can achieve maximum Green Star building performance assessment points by using Polyflor products certified by Ecospecifier’s GreenTag scheme.

The Ecospecifier Global GreenTagCertTM scheme operated by Global GreenTag P/L is a third party ecolabel program that rates sustainable products for the built environment. Polyflor produces many products certified under the scheme in Australia and New Zealand, with Polyflor homogeneous PUR ranges typically in the top 50% of resilient finishes based on their GreenTag Ecopoints. Polyflor is flooring design for a better environment with no compromise in the choice or performance of the product.

Recycling

Polyflor is a cofounding and funding member of Recofloor, the industry’s leading vinyl take-back scheme for recycling end of life post-consumer vinyl flooring. Most of Polyflor’s product is 100% recyclable and Mark tells us that, “Since 2009 when Recofloor was introduced, 5,391 tonnes of product, or enough material to cover 270 football pitches, have gone back into product and not landfill.”

Through Recofloor, Polyflor can recycle smooth and safety installation off-cuts, smooth uplifted flooring and old stock roll-end and samples which would normally end up in landfill. Many of Polyflor’s floor coverings contain up to 40% recovered and recycled content and this can be recycled many times over without losing its functionality as a quality flooring ingredient. If the material cannot be used in a Polyflor product, this material is recycled into other useful products such as traffic cones and outdoor play equipment.

Customer Focus

The foundation of Polyflor’s success is their customer focus. Polyflor work closely with contractors, specifiers and end users to understand their requirements and provide the ideal flooring solution for any installation. Polyflor have dedicated personnel within its salesforce, a technical department, and a qualified design team to provide comprehensive customer support. A ‘colour committee’ with delegates from each state and territory meet monthly to ensure Polyflor product remains on-trend. With sales offices and warehouses throughout Australia and New Zealand, they are never more than a phone call away.

Polyflor’s commercial flooring collections are created by world class designers to ensure that it is as beautiful as it is functional. Polyflor’s unique PUR coating means their floors are easy to maintain and require no further sealing or chemicals after installation. Polyflor offer their customers the benefits of versatility, international quality and choice. From their early origins to today’s position as a leading manufacturer of commercial floorcoverings, the success story continues ……