Bjelin, an Ogulin, Croatia-based wood flooring manufacturer owned by the majority shareholder of Välinge Flooring (Viken, Sweden), began construction on what it is calling the “world’s largest wood flooring factory” in Ogulin, Croatia, to produce flooring featuring Välinge’s Woodura surface technology.
The factory is located on a 330,000-square-meter (3.5 million-square-foot) plot of land and comprises 100,000 square meters (1.0 million square feet) of building space.
“I am very pleased that after 10 years of hard and very costly development work we are finally ready to scale up our powder-based production considerably in order to introduce a new wood flooring generation,” stated Darko Pervan, CEO of Pervanovo Invest AB, parent company of Bjelin.
Bjelin is the main distributor of Välinge Flooring’s Woodura line in Scandinavia and among its main distributors in Europe.
Construction of the factory began in 2020, and the first phase is scheduled to be operational by 2023, with all phases slated for completion by 2027. The facility’s production will ramp up incrementally and will exceed 20 million square meters in annual capacity upon completion.
