For the sports & leisure sector Forbo presents its renewed Marmoleum Sport flooring. This sports floor collection offers the normative required material thickness of 3.2 mm for all colours, next to a selection of 4.0 mm items. Marmoleum Sport meets all the extensive requirements that floor coverings in sports and multipurpose halls need.
Why choose Marmoleum Sport?
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.
Suitable for heavy loads & traffic
Whether it’s handball, basketball, athletics or gymnastics, Marmoleum Sport handles 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 dancing will leave this floor unimpressed: street shoes, cigarettes, drinks, Marmoleum Sport can deal with it.
Long lasting performance
The extreme durability of Marmoleum flooring 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 presents 13 contemporary marbled colours, which have been designed based on colour patterns commonly applied in sports halls. The colours are dirt hiding and can be combined to add accented shapes in the floor.
Meeting European standards
According to the German standard DIN V 18032-2 and European EN 14904 all sport functional and technical characteristics are covered.
Marmoleum Sport offers:
High level sports flooring performance
• Flexible and elastic floor covering
• 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
• 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.
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Marmoleum cleaning & maintenance instructions
Marmoleum sheet installation guidance note
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