Entrance flooring systems have a critical safety role to play. Slips, trips and falls make up a lot of all reported major injuries. By taking sensible decisions over flooring surfaces and installing effective entrance matting, the potential for slipping can be dramatically reduced.
Moreover, a well designed entrance flooring system will prevent dirt and moisture from being tracked in and thereby prolong the life of your interior flooring and reduce cleaning, repair and overall maintenance costs.
Forbo offers entrance solutions for all types of entrances, both rigid (Nuway) and textile entrance systems (Coral).
We have been the world leader in textile entrance flooring for over 50 years, so there is nothing we don’t know about stopping dirt and moisture coming into your building.
First impressions count. When people enter your building they should like what they see. But you also have the practical pressure of keeping your building floors clean and keeping your visitors safe. Our Coral and Nuway entrance flooring systems do all of this, and more.
Every entrance has its own demand since it depends whether you are in a main street office area or are a primary school. Our entrance flooring collection consists of many different ranges, each of them with their own focus area like dirt scraping or moisture take up.
Besides functionality you can also choose different installation options: sheet, tiles and mats. Last but not least the choice for the environment can help you take the final decision. We have several products with regenerated yarns. Whatever collection you choose, you know you have the best quality with the best functionality.
Just having a mat behind the door is not enough. People often do not stop to wipe their feet, so a good entrance flooring system has to do its job. An entrance system that takes different zones into account can stop up to 95% of walked in dirt and moisture from reaching your building floors.
A functional entrance flooring system is chosen based on the location of the building (determines type of dirt), the amount of footfall (how many people walk on it), the type of people who walk on it (e.g. business people or school children) and the type of entrance in the building (large, small, inside, outside). Your entrance flooring can already start outside and continue all the way to the reception area.
We have defined 3 entrance zones.
For each zone we offer a selection of products that best fit the entrance area.
Zone 1: External primary matting
Zone 2: Internal primary matting
Zone 3: Circulation zone matting
Click on the zones in the image below for more information.
A Forbo entrance system with a 3-step clean-off-zone will reduce your future maintenance costs by stopping up to 95% of walked in dirt and moisture from reaching the other floors in your building.
This reduces your building's floor cleaning costs by up to 65% and extends the life of your floors. The average maintenance cost of commercial flooring is 86% of the total life cycle cost.
Watch the Coral videos to learn more about this textile entrance flooring and see how it is produced.
Video The importance of entrance flooring
Video Entrance flooring zoning
Video Coral unique yarn system
Video Coral how it is made
