For the sports & leisure sector Forbo presents the renewed Marmoleum Sport range. This linoleum sports floor collection offers the normative required material thickness of 3.2 mm for all colours, next to an extensive range of 4.0 mm items.
Marmoleum Sport meets the requirements of modern sports and multipurpose facilities.
Extensive requirements
Floor coverings in sports and multipurpose halls have extensive requirements to meet, ranging from professional and semiprofessional sports to jamborees, festivities and school exams. Depending on the usage profile, different floor systems are used.
Diminish the risk of injuries
A sports floor construction needs to fulfill safety and sport functional features: a sports floor with Marmoleum Sport as a top coating diminishes the risk of injuries, reduces the risk on muscle fatigue and overstressing. The top layer guarantees optimal performance in terms of anti-slip and glide.
Heavy loads
Whether it’s handball, basketball, athletics or gymnastics, Marmoleum Sport does it all. Also driving with heavy loads or transporting weighty exercise equipment cannot harm the linoleum, in combination with the appropriate subfloor. Even festivities like partying and dancing will leave this floor unimpressed: street shoes, cigarettes, drinks, Marmoleum Sport can deal with it.
Extremely durable
The extreme durability of linoleum guarantees even after years of intensive use the ability to deliver a top performance. Best cleaning and maintenance properties ensure that the floor looks good over many years.
A visual champion
The Marmoleum Sport collection exists of 9 expressive yet friendly marbled colours which cover the complete colour spectrum. Ranging from yellow, orange, red, greens and blues to 2 complementary neutrals. The exciting Marmoleum Sport Move collection exists of 4 elegant neutral colours that can be used as a solid base for multiple floors in sports areas.
The colours 83712 and 83715 are pleasantly surprising with their orange and yellow veins. It resembles with playing your favourite sport where it started:
on the street. The chosen colours can easily be combined on the playground, to ensure that an attractive and inspiring floor is created. In the end the most dominating area in your sports hall.
3.2 mm thickness
According to the German standard DIN V 18032-2 and European EN 14904 all sport functional and technical characteristics are covered. Taking into account the range of requirements in sports halls in these standards for linoleum sport floor coverings a material thickness of 3.2 mm is recommended. 3.2 mm corresponds to the latest state of the art performance requirements and is in accordance with applicable national and European Standards.
3.2 mm poses significant technical, economic and design advantages:
• Easy application through lower weight
• Cost savings through lower material price
• Most environmental sustainable solution
Marmoleum Sport offers:
High level sports flooring performance
• Flexible and elastic
• Multi-purpose (in combination with the appropriate subfloor system)
• Slip resistant
• Durable
• Insensitive to friction heat
• Warm to touch
• Flame retardant
• Suitable for underfloor heating
• Cigarette burn resistant
Unique sports floor offer
• Available in both 3.2 and 4.0 mm thickness
• Marmoleum Sport Move design
• Wide range of colours that can be combined
Natural and hygienic flooring
• Made from natural raw materials
• Hygienic
• Bacteriostatic
• Sustainable
It is the composition of ingredients that makes Marmoleum Sport so unique. It meets all the requirements of an ecologically superior product construction and combines a wealth of positive performance characteristics, the end result of the material composition as such.
Linseed oil obtained from the seeds of the flax plant is the main component of Marmoleum Sport. Together with natural rosin, limestone and woodflour the linoleum substrate is created, which is coloured by adding natural or nature-based colour pigments.
This still flexible substrate is pressed onto a jute woven fabric and then, in large drying chambers, transforms into a tough, durable sports flooring. Using green energy, the production process of Marmoleum Sport is a very environmentally friendly process.
Marmoleum Sport can be used as floor covering for several types of sports flooring systems according to EN 14904. The 2 most commonly used are area elastic and point deformation.
Area elastic (type A) sports flooring system
Marmoleum Sport is perfect for use in area elastic (sprung) sports floor constructions. Area-elastic floors minimise the risk of injury by spreading the force of an impact over a larger area. The combination of a sprung system with a Marmoleum Sport floor covering provides increased force reduction and vertical deformation. This makes it suitable for more demanding sports. The construction of the sprung undercarriage determines the exact performance values.
Point elastic (type P) sports flooring system
Marmoleum Sport can also be used to create point elastic flooring systems. Marmoleum Sport Elastic is a combination of Marmoleum Sport and a high-tech rubber underlay to cushion shocks directly at the point of impact. This helps to reduce the risk of repetitive stress problems associated with hard surfaces. Nor does the weight of the user determine the effectiveness of the cushioning effect, as with area elastic systems. Point elastic systems are therefore ideal for children’s play areas and lower impact sports. Important to note is that point elastic sports floors are more vulnerable for indentation issues than area elastic floors, therefore too heavy point loads should be avoided in order to ensure the longest possible lifetime of the floor.
Marmoleum sport elastic
Marmoleum Sport + an advanced rubber underlay = Marmoleum Sport Elastic Marmoleum Sport Elastic is a point elastic (type P) floor covering that consists of two layers that work together to provide a perfect base for low-impact sports. The shock pad underfloor is made of recycled rubber and foam particles, bound with polyurethane. The top surface is Marmoleum Sport. The rubber underlay and Marmoleum Sport re-installed separately. The underlay can be affixed directly to the subfloor, which makes it a simple and cost effective sports floor system.
Forbo Marmoleum floors are easy to clean and maintain, thanks to Topshield2, an innovative and durable factory finish which should not be removed.
Download here the Marmoleum cleaning & maintenance instructions
To read more about Marmoleum Sport, download here the brochure Marmoleum Sport brochure
Download here the Marmoleum Sport technical specifications
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