Wood In Architecture Issue 1, 2023

FLOORING
Harder than hardwood:
Woodos presents Woodura
Solid wood floors at high foot traffic areas
or areas with high levels of activity are often
susceptible to indentation. Heels, dropped
objects, wear and tear marks from running
are culprits of damaging hardwood floors.
However beautiful and eco-friendly such
floors can be, it will not matter if they are not
resilient to foot traffic.
Välinge Flooring has therefore developed a
surface technology that reportedly offers three
times the impact protection of a traditional
hardwood floor while being more sustainable.
Called Woodura, floors applied with this
surface technology can provide consumers an
aesthetic, real wood floor with the durability
and water resistance typically associated only
with plastic or polyvinyl chloride (PVC) floors.
HOW IT WORKS
According to flooring distributor Woodos,
Woodura is created by Välinge Flooring’s
technology that presses the timber’s top and
bottom layers to a high-density fibreboard
(HDF) core with heat and pressure-infused
timber powder. The powder will fill up the
natural openings of the wood, so there is no
need for putty filling. Due to the heat and
pressure fusion of the timber top layer to the
HDF core at pore level, the surface is denser
and more durable than untreated timber.
As a result, floors installed with Woodura
technology can achieve a Janka hardness
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