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Flotex textile flooring

High-tech textile floor covering

A textile with high performance attributes!

If you are looking for an easy to clean, highly effective hygienic product that is safe, extremely durable and stain resistant with 40 years of proven history, it is Flotex from Forbo Flooring Systems.

It feels like a carpet and cleans like a resilient.

Performance & design

  • 100% impervious to water (waterproof)

  • Upright nylon fibers resist crushing

  • Recycled backing

  • Available in sheet, tiles, planks & custom design

Easy to clean & maintain

  • Upright fiber has no loops or twists to trap dirt

  • Most spills can be removed, including permanent marker

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Hygienic & allergy free

  • Only textile flooring material certified by the
    British Allergy Foundation

  • Free from toxic heavy metal, phenols, or formaldehyde

  • No harmful volatile organic compounds (VOC’s)


Sound absorbing & slip resistant

  • Comfortable/quiet warm under foot

  • Great sound absorption properties and low impact sound transmission

  • Minimizes risk of slips and falls on wet and dry floor


Get creative with endless design options 8 Items

Chungnam Library
HvA Jakoba Mulderhuis
KEC de Donderberg
Ausonia Offices - Barcelona
Paluki Cooperative Bank
Isara Insitut Superieur D'agriculture Rhone Alpes
Stenden Hotel Management school
Deliveroo HQ
Chamber of Trades
Groupe Santé CHC

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Flotex floors

Flotex floor coverings are manufactured with up to 80 million straight nylon fibres per m². Because the nylon fibres in the Flotex floors are standing straight ahead, they capture fine dust and allergens.

This unique structure ensures these can be released when vacuumed. That is why Flotex is the only textile flooring with a British Allergy Foundation approval.

Carpet floors

Loop pile carpet or loose nylon cut pile fibres retain fine dust and allergens, however, they’re not easily released due to the complex nature of the surface pile, which can result in bacterial growth and an unhygienic floor over time.

Flotex offers the quietness and comfort of a carpet but has a better hygienic performance.

Flotex fibres - close up
Carpet - close up

Flotex in many applications

  • Flotex - Restaurant

    Food & beverage

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    Flotex in food & beverage areas

    From theatre or stadium visits, casinos, hotels or campsites, dinner or lunch in a restaurant, to relaxing in the sauna. The impact of the interior and the overall ambiance play a crucial role to give the ultimate visitor experience.

  • HvA - Jakoba Mulder - Flotex

    High traffic

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    Flotex in high traffic areas

    From airport gates to convention centers to call centers and public buildings. Places that require a resilient textile floor covering that is easy to maintain, environmentally friendly and offer good indoor air quality.

  • SkiStar Hundfjället

    Extreme conditions

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    Flotex in areas with extreme conditions

    From ice skate rings to ski centers and from trains to changing rooms, Flotex stands up to the heavy impact and even under wet conditions it remains slip resistant.

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Easy to clean and maintain

Cleaning and maintaining a Flotex floor is much easier than you would think. The straight nylon fibres capture fine dust and allergens, but these are easily released when vacuumed. Actually, vacuuming removes double the allergens on a Flotex floor compared to conventional carpet flooring.

  • Flotex releases up to 76% of original soil after vacuuming compared to 46% for loop pile carpet

  • Flotex releases up to 97% of original soil after spray extraction cleaning compared to 64% for loop pile carpet

  • The dense, upright pile of Flotex completely dries after wet extraction in 4 to 6 hours versus up to 24 hours for loop pile carpet
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Flotex - A sustainable flooring solution. More information here.

Water based dies and inks
Flotex is created with nylon 6.6 fibres. All dies and inks that are used to create the Flotex design are water based. No additional chemical processes take place other than high temperature steam treatment to secure the colours.

Recycled content
Flotex makes use of waste streams of other Forbo production locations to be added into the backing of the floor coverings. Recycled content in Flotex is up to 67% of the backing content.

Extremely durable
A big advantage for using Flotex is the extreme performance of the floor covering, with a product life time that surpasses that of ordinary textiles by a factor 6.

Green electricity
Forbo's manufacturing operations for Flotex in Great Britain, France and USA secure a high quality floor covering, produced with green electricity and minimum waste streams that are all recycled in the floor.

Get inspired by Flotex references

  • National Football Stadium - Flotex

    National Football Stadium

    Slovakia

    National Football Stadium - Slovakia

    The National Football Stadium of Slovakia is unique in its category due to the way it uses renewable resources. Almost 50% of the heating and cooling comes from renewable sources. The project utilizes degraded energy in transitional periods, when the individual parts of the building will be able to heat or cool each other as needed.

  • University of Illinois - Flotex planks Wood

    University of Illinois

    United States

    University of Illinois - United States

    The University of Illinois street dining renovation project includes a high-end micro-restaurant dining concept that serves over 3,000 students a day. The University has successfully used Flotex floor covering amounting to over 8,000 m2 on campus, installed in student housing and shared areas for dining and student union activities. The university has repeatedly chosen Flotex for its proven cleanability, durability and hygiene.

  • Almedalsbiblioteket - Flotex

    Public library

    Sweden

    Almedalsbiblioteket - Sweden

    Almedalsbiblioteket (The library of Almedal) is Sweden's only integrated public and university library, located in direct connection to Campus Gotland between the harbor and the park area Almedalen in Visby. The library struggled with old wooden floors that were hard to clean, and also struggled with bad acoustics. Forbo's Flotex solved both of these problems.