LAWRENCE, MA - More than 50 years ago Freudenberg Building Systems, Inc., a member of the multi-national Freudenberg Group, with U.S. headquarters in Lawrence, Mass., recognized the advantages rubber offered the flooring industry and began manufacturing nora® Rubber Flooring. Today nora® Rubber Flooring is the market leader in commercial rubber flooring, with a market share of more than 80 percent in Germany and more than 50 percent worldwide.

The nora® Rubber Flooring system includes noraplan® and norament® matching floor coverings, in both tile and sheet rubber flooring, stairtreads and accessories. Together, these lines provide solutions for the toughest floor covering problems in an environmentally sensitive way, enabling architects and interior designers to achieve inspired design and exceptional performance. nora® Rubber Flooring systems are available in a broad range of exciting colors and patterns compatible with today's architectural trends to help create bold and innovative flooring designs that blend naturally into all interior design concepts. Matching coverings and accessories, from classical to modern styles, allow for harmony of design and functionality throughout a facility, regardless of differing traffic categories or specialized requirements. New colors and patterns are under development, along with new design tools that will further support designers' efforts to select the best nora® flooring for virtually any design concept. All nora® products are extremely wear-resistant for longer life, dirt-repellent for easy care and lower maintenance costs, flame retardant and impact-resistant for safety and increased longevity, and permanently resilient for comfort underfoot. They also offer high footfall sound absorption, resistance to oils, grease and chemicals, and electrostatic dissipation protection. In keeping with our corporate philosophy to protect the environment and our natural resources, nora® products contain high quality renewable/natural rubber, recycled rubber, abundant natural fillers and environmentally compatible color pigments and are free of PVC, plasticizers, and halogens.

nora® products are manufactured to meet the strictest requirements of many different environments including healthcare, retail, hospitality, industry, schools and transportation. They have been successfully incorporated in some of the most demanding environments worldwide, including JFK Airport, the New York City Transit System (subway cars), the Statue of Liberty, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, Qualcomm Stadium (San Diego), Kansai Airport in Japan, Frankfurt Airport and approximately 150 other airports, as well as clinics, schools, museums, offices, production facilities, shops, gymnasiums, residential buildings, golf clubs, skating rinks, trains and ships in more than 120 countries.