About Us
Kronotex produces MDF since the foundation in 1992. The production range was continuously enlarged in its quality and quantity. For the covering of the raw panels there have been installed several short press systems. This was the precondition for the production of laminate flooring on a basis of HDF-mounting plates, that we started in 1995.
Two continually operating MDF systems, with an annual capacity of 450,000 m³, form the basis. According to customer-specific requirements, MDF panels for the furniture and panel industry or special HDF panels for laminated flooring production, are provided with a decorative laminate at eight short press systems.
The production capacity of 50,000,000 m² laminated floorings in one location is most certainly unique worldwide. It enables the fulfillment of customer requirements within extremely short deadlines.
Also available are the products of subsidiaries within the Swiss Krono Group, which are completely identical with regard to profile and finish and are manufactured at state-of-the-art production plants. This generates a high level of security even in unexpected cases, and creates confidence from the very initial stages of business relationships.
Aided by the most sophisticated technology available and state-of-the-art technical training programs, in conjunction with industriousness and commitment to their jobs, the employees in Heilengrabe transformed their products into superlative commodities that are in great demand all over the world.
Kronotex and the subsidiaries of the Swiss Krono Group are vertically integrated which has proven itself future-oriented production processes for the manufacturing of laminated flooring. It has its roots in the choice of timbers used and extends to the production and finishing of the panels and the provision of all auxiliary and additional materials from Group-owned production, climaxing in the processing of the products. All process parameters can be altered at any time and guarantee a constant unbeatable product quality.
In addition to on-going control within the company, independent institutes monitor the high standard of quality of the user-friendly products and certify this by awarding many of the Kronotex products. The requirements which have to be fulfilled in this case comprise additional and far stricter testing criteria than required by the DIN EN 13 329 standard for laminated flooring.
In addition to the quality aspect, the closed production cycle results in further future-oriented synergies and an efficiency which customers in more than 85 countries globally have praised as exemplary. The most important sales are in Europe, the USA and Canada, with sales offices in Barnwell and Shanghai, and are centres for the most important flooring exhibitions.
In contrast to the trend towards recession and rationalisation of staff, the company managed to install over 700 permanent positions in an economically weak area. One can assume that doubling that number of employees therefore found secure jobs in the wider and closer surroundings. The areas of forestry, transport and traffic, industrial and trade companies and numerous companies from the service industry benefit especially from the positive developments at Kronotex. The construction of the new Kronoply OSB plant (OSB - Oriented Strand Board) also plays an important role as an ecological aspect.
For example, at the Heiligengrabe site, located north of Berlin and in the middle of Mark Brandenburg, conifers fresh from the woods are used exclusively, which could not be industrially utilised in any other way. They are obtained in sufficient numbers by the practice of thinning out, i.e. regular maintenance of native pine woods.
Early on, a decision was made at Kronotex to utilise timber from sustainably managed forests for the production of fibre panels to promote economically responsible, socially manageable and economically viable forest management. Kronotex fulfils the "FSC demands on the businesses of the trade and processing chain" and was successfully certified in Autumn 2000.