Check It Out: the Exciting World of KRONO
There’s plenty of action at KRONO – day after day after day. And because moving pictures often say more than a thousand words, we’ve listed our latest films for you here. To watch and learn about training opportunities, production processes, our product portfolio and more, simply click on a link. Welcome to our fascinating world!
28.05.2020 | Achim Scholz, Product Manager at SWISS KRONO TEX, talks to us with a short video clip from his home office. He explains the importance we attach to the feel of our products and how the surface structures differ from one another.
18.05.2020 | OSB can be used in many ways, both in interior fit-out and decoratively in the visible area. This raises the question, can you use an OSB tongue-and-groove connection on either side? Michael Claus, salesman with SWISS KRONO TEX, knows the answer. With a short video clip from his home office, he gives advice.
18.05.2020 | SWISS KRONO TEX product manager, Achim Scholz, presents his favourite HERRINGBONE collection in a short video clip from home. The laminate flooring of a special kind. Even the installation is exceptional. Achim Scholz knows how to do it and lets you be part of it.
20.08.2019 | How is SWISS KRONO laminate flooring produced? The process begins with inspection and purchasing of wood from forest thinnings. We show you everything that happens to the logs after they arrive on site until the finished laminate flooring panels are ready to ship. Join this virtual plant tour to learn all about our production systems!
20.08.2019 | How is SWISS KRONO OSB produced? The process begins with inspection and purchasing of wood from forest thinnings. We show you everything that happens to the logs after they arrive on site until the finished OSB boards are ready to ship. Join this virtual plant tour to learn all about our production systems! Nehmen Sie an einer virtuellen Werksführung durch unsere OSB-Produktion teil und gewinnen einen Eindruck von den Produktionsanlagen.
06.02.2017 | At BAU in Munich, what was probably the world’s longest OSB board drew looks from visitors and tempted many of them to touch it. The SWISS KRONO stand was also consistently packed, giving the company’s trade fair team plenty of opportunities to talk shop with buyers and builders.
21.09.2016 | Before installing laminate flooring, it’s helpful to keep a few basic facts in mind: the dimensions and any special characteristics of the room, available tools and materials, and the preferred thickness and structure of the flooring. You start with the #underlayment.
21.09.2016 | Various underlayment materials are available for meeting different requirements. On mineral substrates, it’s essential to spread a vapour barrier before installing underlayments to insulate against impact sound and reflected walking noise. This is the basis for laying the actual laminate flooring using the “cut-and-clic” method.
21.09.2016 | Laying laminate panels is child’s play because the panels simply snap together when angled and then pressed with a thumb. Our DIY specialist, Thomas, shows how much space should be left along walls and between joints. Here’s a tip: you don’t need a rule to cut them to size! And what about #special situations like doors and heating installations?
21.09.2016 | If you don’t want to shorten door frames, this clip shows an alternative. It’s also easy to install flooring around heating pipes. The room is rounded off with #accessories.
21.09.2016 | What about transitions to other rooms? The last step is placing the skirting boards – the different styles give the room a special touch. Now the important thing is proper care. #care
21.09.2016 | Laminate floors last a long time if they’re properly cared for and treated. Visible damage can be quickly and easily fixed: DIY specialist Thomas shows how to replace a whole panel in the middle of a floor.
21.09.2016 | The angle/angle laying system involves pressing panels and rows of panels into one another. DIY specialist Thomas shows how it’s done.
18.08.2016 | A New Green Oasis for the Residents of Heiligengrabe
17.06.2016 | In early March 2016, the world’s longest OSB board – measuring an astounding 17-and-a-half metres – was manufactured at SWISS KRONO in Heiligengrabe. The first delivery was transported by a special convoy to Erne AG Holzbau in Stein, Switzerland. The customer had ordered the extra-long OSB boards for a new school that is being built in Nuremberg. Over the course of only three weeks, the Swiss timber construction specialist turned them into 86 prefabricated modules to serve as temporary classrooms. In each module, three OSB Longboards were used for the floor and ceiling.
In mid-May the 86 modules were taken to Bavaria’s second-largest city and installed at the Maria Ward School for girls to temporarily accommodate the students while it is being torn down and completely rebuilt, a project that will take four to five years to complete.
In mid-May the 86 modules were taken to Bavaria’s second-largest city and installed at the Maria Ward School for girls to temporarily accommodate the students while it is being torn down and completely rebuilt, a project that will take four to five years to complete.
18.03.2016 | After production had successfully premiered, in mid-March 2016 the first extra-long OSB boards from SWISS KRONO (with a length of 17.5 m) were transported on six special trucks to ERNE AG Holzbau in Switzerland. The customer needed the SWISS KRONO products to build modules for a new school. The convoy attracted plenty of attention on its way across most of Germany.
25.01.2016 | Every two years, KRONOTEX presents new collections and decors at DOMOTEX, the world’s leading trade fair for floor coverings. This year, however, there was even more to admire: the Group’s new corporate design, in which it appeared for the first time at a trade event.
14.10.2015 | The minister of labour and health of the German state of Brandenburg, Diana Golze, visited Heiligengrabe to open the first SAFETY DAYS devoted to promoting occupational safety and health for the site’s approximately 700 employees. A large number of health checks were carried out on site. Outdoors, many attendees also took advantage of the opportunity to practice proper safety procedures in extreme situations while operating the elevated work platform under expert supervision or to test the effectiveness of lap belts in a forklift tipping simulator.
26.08.2015 | Managing Director Hendrik Hecht took media representatives on a tour of the site to show them the most important investment projects of the current business year: a grate combustion chamber, enlargement of the timber yard and a new motor vehicle repair shop.
30.07.2015 | Language: English / Source: www.bau-umwelt.de
31.10.2014 | Wood is the world’s eco-friendliest raw material. / Source: www.co2-bank.ch
31.10.2014 | The timber construction system has many outstanding characteristics and delivers countless benefits. / Source: www.vgq.ch
24.03.2014 | KRONOPLY GmbH, based in Heiligengrabe, Germany, presented two new insulation products at ROOF+TIMBER International 2014 in Cologne: KRONOPLY safe and KRONOPLY uni. These innovations score points with a wide variety of advantages for applications in walls and roofs. Both – KRONOPLY uni and its laminated cousin, KRONOPLY safe – boast a high bulk density and optimised lambda values and are optimally suited for making thermal-bridge-free constructions. The new flame-resistant KRONOPLY OSB SF-B also impressively demonstrates the company’s forward-looking, innovative expertise in engineered wood materials.
14.03.2014 | Germany’s state employment agency, the “Bundesagentur für Arbeit”, honoured the SWISS KRONO GROUP for the good work of its Heiligengrabe-based manufacturing companies, KRONOTEX GmbH & Co. KG and KRONOPLY GmbH, in promoting vocational training in cooperation with chambers, schools and the agency. A special event was held to present the certificate to Managing Director Hendrik Hecht.
17.02.2014 | Laminate flooring producer KRONOTEX GmbH & Co. KG, based at Heiligengrabe, Germany, showcased its new 2014 laminate flooring collection, comprising 184 different decors, at DOMOTEX 2014 in Hanover. The five new collections of the MY FLOOR brand were exhibited in a separate area of the company’s stand. A presentation of the new licensing partnership with Villeroy & Boch also attracted considerable attention on the SWISS KRONO GROUP’s 57 sq.m joint stand. The new Villeroy & Boch Flooring Line consists of four collections and 22 decors, all of which excel with outstanding aesthetics, functionality and environmental friendliness.
14.02.2014 | KRONOTEX – Laminate flooring is made from wood, a natural raw material, in the company’s Heiligengrabe, Germany plant with seamless quality control. The plant’s high-precision production processes have been optimised further to ensure absolute “Made in Germany” perfection in these laminate floors for healthy living, which are available in eight collections comprising a total 184 different decors.
14.02.2014 | Staff of the firm of Laminat Depot toured the production plant of KRONOTEX GmbH & Co. KG at Heiligengrabe, Germany in late 2013. The fast, efficient production processes of the new number 11 system, amongst others, are enabling a significantly greater daily output. In accordance with each customer’s wishes, metre-long logs are turned into laminate flooring sporting any of a wide range of decors – in high quality with meticulous execution of all details. KRONOTEX and Laminat Depot are an ideal team for meeting consumers’ flooring wishes with bespoke products.
13.02.2014 | Laminate flooring producer KRONOTEX GmbH & Co. KG, based at Heiligengrabe, Germany, showcased its new 2014 laminate flooring collection, comprising 184 different decors, at DOMOTEX 2014 in Hanover. The five new collections of the MY FLOOR brand were exhibited in a separate area of the company’s stand. A presentation of the new licensing partnership with Villeroy & Boch also attracted considerable attention on the SWISS KRONO GROUP’s 57 sq.m joint stand. The new Villeroy & Boch Flooring Line consists of four collections and 22 decors, all of which excel with outstanding aesthetics, functionality and environmental friendliness.
12.09.2013 | For 20 years and counting: wood-based materials made in Germany. 2,000 product versions and 650 employees.
21.06.2013 | High tech: ecofriendly, high-quality wood-based materials “Made in Germany”
21.06.2013 | For healthy living: innovative KRONOTEX laminate floors, inspired by nature
21.06.2013 | Pro-climate: KRONO power plant scores points with low carbon emissions
20.06.2013 | Getting fit for the future: young people learning eight different professions at KRONO
20.06.2013 | Discovery tours: under sunny skies, visitors explore the exciting world of KRONO
