Flotex®, the art of Forbo's flocked flooring

Forbo's Flotex® flocked floors and their unique high-definition digital printing process are winning over designers. Once again this year, it inspired Philippe Starck: the FLOTEX® BY STARCK collection has allowed the visionary designer to express himself on the floor. Others before him have also been drawn to it, such as Ettore Sottsass and Tibor Reich, making this flooring a true ?material for creation?.

The richness of its patterns and colors, and above all the possibility of customizing it as much as desired, open up a world of possibilities for original projects and interiors seeking a graphic signature. These exclusive aesthetic qualities are combined with a range of technical benefits made possible by the hybrid structure of Flotex® (textile and PVC): resistance to heavy traffic, wear and stains, acoustic efficiency, reduced slip risk, ease of maintenance, durability...

With Flotex®, Forbo resolves the dilemma of having to choose between performance and elegance, as the flocked floors in the range inherently combine both strengths.


Draw, it's flocked!
Flotex® offers every form of customization and delivers a hyper-realistic result.

You can thus choose a design from among more than 500 available in a dedicated digital library. Simply click on a decor category (Floral, Image, Lines, Naturals, Pattern, Shape, Showtime and the surprising Artist collection inspired by Van Gogh's paintings) to explore a wide choice of references. This configuration tool also makes it possible to view the floorings in different environments in order to best check the rendering of a decor. The simulations can be downloaded and saved so they can be used with complete confidence when drawing up plans or projects.

Other options:
- either play the custom-made card by creating your own design with the Créa'Flotex service. Flotex® thus proves to be the ideal blank page for designers who wish to create an exclusive floor covering and put their stamp on the identity of their project.
- or use the Color Flotex service to recolor an existing design from the digital library, using any color references (RAL, Pantone or NCS).

In every case, the high-definition digital printing applied to Flotex® ensures an ultra-realistic result that has inspired many extraordinary interiors, which can be discovered on the Forbo website, in the section The art of Flotex® flocked floors.

Quite an art! Flotex® dresses every floor to create an atmosphere conducive to the well-being of users: for example, decors and colors may be playful and stimulating for educational establishments, minimalist and neutral for office spaces, reassuring and familiar for retirement homes, with unusual visual effects for leisure venues, warm for housing or refined for hospitality...

Unique, Flotex® flocked floors combine the performance of PVC and textile
Both a textile and a resilient floor covering (without being a carpet), available in rolls, tiles and planks, Flotex® draws multiple qualities from its unique construction.

Its short pile, made up of approximately 80 million fibers/m² of polyamide 6.6 (ultra-resistant to abrasion) implanted by electrostatic flocking into a PVC backing, provides the warmth and walking comfort that characterize textile floors. Note that the high density and height of the fibers mean that the surface of Flotex® does not flatten and always remains impeccable, while considerably reducing floor slipperiness (R13), a guarantee of safety.

The PVC backing is, for its part, 100 % waterproof and 100 % rot-proof, so that Flotex® is the only textile floor covering that is water-washable and perfectly hygienic. Flotex® flocked floors are also characterized by acoustic efficiency of up to 21 dB for rolls and 19 dB for tiles and planks. Finally, their high resistance to stains and wear ensures easy maintenance and enhances their durability over time, including in high-traffic areas.