Marmoleum is Beautiful - The most attractive designs
Marmoleum is designed for spaces to work, learn, play, heal, cure, recharge, relax or socialize. Would you like to see how others apply Marmoleum, then please have a look at the 'Inspiration & References' part of our website.
Discover the natural beauty of Marmoleum flooring with over 300 colors & designs, ranging from marbled to linear and concrete, available in sheet, tiles & planks. You can browse through our Marmoleum collections by simply clicking the arrows at the side of the page.
If you’d like to order a sample, click on a cross and this will direct you to the product page. Here you can add a product to your sample basket.
The design and the colour choice influences the appearance over time. In a environment with heavy footfall and little time for cleaning it is recommended to use a more marbled design in softer tones for instance.
The samples on the right give some guidance which design will camouflage the most. Needless to say, good cleaning and maintenance is important for the durability of your floor.
Marmoleum is Functional - Proven performance
Marmoleum with Topshield pro:
✔ Has an proven performance - with millions of square meter installed all over the world.
✔ Is health consciousness – Marmoleum with Topshield pro has anti-viral properties, is bacteriostatic, allergy proof, has low emissions, is eco and human toxic free and plastic free.
✔ Contains no chemicals.
✔ Is resistant to water even during long exposure, without the need for welding.
✔ Has superior hygiene properties - On the surface of Marmoleum bacteria like MRSA cannot grow and the smooth surface also makes it easy to keep clean.
✔ Is Durable and has a great appearance – The hard-wearing and smooth surface ensures that the floor is to clean.
With the latest innovative step from Topshield pro to Topshield pro surface finish, we can proudly say that Marmoleum is the best natural flooring solution. This has been proved by TÜVRheinland, one of the world’s leading testing service providers.
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✔ Better wear performance - Our thicker surface finish makes Marmoleum even more resistant to wear, ensuring a great design appearance for longer.
✔ Better stain resistance - The new and improved surface finish technology makes Marmoleum even more resistant to stains, to evolve with the changing requirements like the use of hand disinfectants in many places.
✔ Better cleaning & maintenance - The innovative application and the improved smooth surface of Marmoleum with Topshield pro secures uniform and consistent protection for your floor. As a consequence the surface has less dirt build up and is easier to clean.
There are quite some Marmoleum floors that have been in use for more than 25 years. These floorings are often the foundation for pre-assumptions around the characteristics of Marmoleum.
These older floors are still performing well due to its durable character but are from a different generation and not comparable to Marmoleum that is supplied today.
Through time Marmoleum has been undergoing product innovations that are severely improving its properties to one of the best performing and sustainable resilient floors around. Innovations in adhesives, surface treatment and linoleum technology means that Marmoleum today is amongst the best scratch, stain and water resistant flooring products in the market.
For all Marmoleum installed today we can say with proud: myths busted!
Marmoleum is Natural - THE sustainable flooring choice
Marmoleum, Forbo's brand for linoleum, is a floor made from natural raw materials. The key raw materials used in the linoleum production include linseed oil, which comes from the flax plant seeds, wood flour as production waste from controlled forestry plantations and jute, a crop whose fibers provide the material for the membrane onto which the linoleum is calendared.
These raw materials are obtained from their natural habitat right where they grow and renew, often in just 12 months time. Jute and flax are annual crops that can be harvested just like wheat or corn. Extracting rosin is a continuous process, while wood flour, a waste material from the timber industry, is derived from European production forests. Limestone is available in abundance
You are actually choosing a floor that is CO2 neutral, by nature. The raw materials used for creating linoleum have absorbed such an amount of CO2 during the time the plants, trees and crops have grown, that this amount of CO2 exceeds the amount of CO2 that is emitted while making the product. Each square meter of Marmoleum delivers a bonus to the environment and reduces CO2 emissions.
The craft of manufacturing linoleum has evolved over the last 150 years. Forbo has been driving this development through its Marmoleum brand. Making Marmoleum flooring is an art, which you cannot learn at any trade - or craft school. In fact, only a handful of people know how to make Marmoleum.
Determining the correct mixture of ingredients, allowing the right time for raw materials to settle, applying the correct temperature & pressure are skills a Marmoleum Experts must master. We are proud of our experts, as they take pride in creating our Marmoleum floors.
The restoring capacity of natural resources is the basis for the circular economy. In essence linoleum is a bio-cycle product, this means that the natural raw materials basically could be composted and returned to earth as nutrients to the new grown rapid natural raw materials. This is the only way to capture CO₂ in a product avoiding off-setting necessity. The use of recycled, up-cycled (i.e. cocoa shells and tall oil) and re-used materials is a circular economy principle that has applied in Marmoleum for ages already.
Floor coverings are an intrinsic part of the built environment, they are omnipresent in every square meter of our schools, health care institutions, workplaces, leisure centers and our home. Forbo’s Marmoleum floors are designed to have a contribution to a safe, hygienic and comfortable environment, contributing to your health.
Today more than half of the world’s population, over 54%, is living in urbanized areas. On average we are spending around 80%-90% of our time indoors and this will only increase. No wonder that the focus on quality of the indoor environment, and the attention given to green architecture and healthy buildings, is becoming more prominent. As our floors are part of the indoor environment in which people live, meet and work, it is our mission to design and offer products that contribute in a positive way to the health and comfort of the individual.
