Take a look at the latest products from these companies, all advertisers in the 2024 WFB Resource Book, the buyer's guide for the wood flooring industry.
Premium Partners
Berger-Seidle America
Berger-Seidle's GreenStar is a two-component water-based wood floor finish. It has no aziridine, no isocyanate, no hazard labeling and no CO2 off-gassing, the company says. It has an 18-hour pot life after mixture and offers a unique workability, flexibility and level of resistance, the company adds.
berger-seidle.com
Bona US
Bona Traffic HD Raw is a two-component, waterborne finish that preserves the look and feel of natural wood. Its ultra-matte sheen is consistent from all angles while maintaining the highest level of durability. Traffic HD Raw is Greenguard Gold-certified and fully cured in three days.
bona.com
Bostik
Roll-Cote High-Performance Moisture Vapor Barrier Coating and Primer is a water-based, one-component system formulated to reduce substrate moisture-vapor emissions, including unlimited moisture protection for glue-down hardwood flooring. It is also designed to prime floors prior to the application of underlayments/adhesives and block concrete alkalinity. Roll-Cote is Red List Free, CDPH- and VOC-compliant (per SCAQMD Rule 1113), and is a LEED v4 contributor for BD+C and ID+C.
bostik.com/us
Horizon Forest Products
Bella Citta's Galapagos collection features extra-long planks, with 80% of the planks in each box measuring up to 7 feet, 3 inches. The tannin-rich French white oak combined with the company's proprietary fuming process creates natural colors without adding traditional stain, the company says. The 9½-inch-wide planks show unique detail, including knots, pith or mineral deposits, and the light wire-brushed surface accentuates the rich graining, the company adds.
horizonforest.com
Lägler North America
Lägler's new vacuum attachment can be used on the Hummel, Superhummel and Elf. It is easily accessible at job sites, has a straightforward and fast installation, and is ideal for most external vacuum options, the company says. For more questions about P1505, the company can be reached at 800-8-HUMMEL.
laglernorthamerica.com
Muscanell Millworks
Muscanell Millworks' committed stair part shop crafts an array of treads, risers and nosings that match their unfinished flooring. Stair parts are custom to order and use lumber that is dried to the same 5-7% moisture level as their flooring.
muscanell.com
Saroyan Hardwoods
Saroyan Solid Hardwood flooring is available in a variety of grades and dimensions. Every order is hand-selected for appearance and milled for premium quality, the company says.
saroyanhardwoods.com
Stauf USA
Stauf PUM-950 is a high-strength urethane-based, eco-friendly, and LEED-credit-eligible wood flooring adhesive. It contains no isocyanates or solvents and is safe for the environment. It features a long open time, zero water/solvent, high shear strength, and is waterproof when cured. It features an easy, quick installation with no flash time, is ideal for complex patterns, and offers flexibility for seasonal flooring changes, the company says.
staufusa.com
Woodwise/Design Hardwood Products
Woodwise/Design Hardwood Products says it is continuing its research and development efforts to keep up with the wood flooring industry, and its wood fillers have been formulated to meet the demands of wood flooring experts. Its line of wood fillers includes: Woodwise Full-Trowel Filler, Wood Patch, No Shrink Patch-Quick, Powdered Wood Filler, Pre-Finish Filler, and Epoxy Wood Patch.
woodwise.com
Featured Suppliers
Absco - Canlak Coatings
Absco Platinum 2K, a high-performing 2K wood floor finish with the ease of a 1K, uses no isocyanate or aziridine catalyst and is nationally VOC-compliant with easy water cleanup. The no-waste formula (users can add new hardener after one week to extend product use an additional week) provides exceptional durability and excellent scratch- and stain-resistance.
absolutecoatings.com
Allegheny Mountain Hardwood Flooring
Allegheny Mountain offers Âľ-inch 100 percent riftsawn solid wood flooring in lengths up to 12 feet. Wider planks are also available in red oak and white oak. Its Northern Appalachian oak has grading standards above NOFMA requirements and is cut and kiln-dried at its mill to 6% MC, the company says.
hickmanwoods.com
Appalachian Lumber Co.
Appalachian Lumber offers custom treads of any size, as well as pie treads and custom landing treads. The treads are made from high-quality hardwoods and are available in more than 20 species, the company says.
appalachianlumber.net
Arboritec USA Inc.
Arboritec's Elite is a one-component ceramic-fortified waterborne finish ideally suited for heavy-traffic residential floors. Elite is sold in a 16.5-liter pail and features fast dry, short cure times and is known for providing unrivaled support, durability and hardness, the company says.
arboritec.com
Delmhorst Instrument Co.
The JX-20 and JX-30 are the latest moisture meters in Delmhorst's Navigation family. They are professional-grade, accurate and versatile, the company says. The JX-30 features the Delmhorst EDGE App with expanded wood species, customizable settings, geotagging and data-sharing from any location.
delmhorst.com
Distinctive Hardwood Floors
Distinctive Hardwood Floors offers custom inlays, parquets, curved details and plank flooring in various sizes, thickness, colors and textures. The inlays are produced on an aerospace-quality CNC router, may be beveled and/or distressed, and come unfinished or prefinished.
danielantes.com
Floor Lord Industries
Floor Lord Industries' Vector Pro Series Edger Pad allows the user to easily switch back and forth between a standard rubber edger pad and the FlexPad. The patented design has a spring steel base that, with the press of a button, goes from a rough-sanding pad to one for fine-sanding. The company says the spring steel has flexibility and memory, and it won't distort or bend, the company says.
floorlordproducts.com
Fortifiber Building Systems Group
The Accord sound-rated flooring pad maintains comfort underfoot, providing an outstanding acoustic barrier and dependable moisture-vapor protection, the company says, adding that Accord is easy to install over subfloors and under floating engineered or laminate flooring due to an integrated seam-seal tape. It is also a Class I moisture-vapor barrier over concrete.
fortifiber.com
Grill Works Inc.
Grill Works Inc.'s Flush With Frame Vents are designed to sit flat on the subfloor. The frame is set permanently, while the vent is removable to permit cleaning of the duct throat. They are delicate-looking but tough, and they are available in a variety of thicknesses, the company says.
grillworksinc.com
Hasko Inc.
The Hasko HSSM series features machines for solid and engineered wood flooring from the leading provider of technology to the hardwood flooring industry, the company says. The HSSM SideMaster provides side matching for sawn-face engineered wood flooring and plan-to-zero systems. The HSSM Splitter produces sawn veneer faces up to 8 inches wide.
haskomachines.com
Holland Manufacturing
Blue Shield Saturated Asphalt Kraft is a cost-effective method for providing vapor control in various settings, the company says. This material is designed to ensure the flooring underlayment remains protected from water damage and excessive moisture. It is available in various sizes.
hollandmfg.com
Lico Machinery Inc.
Lico specializes in the design and manufacturing of sawmill and flooring equipment ranging from standalone machines to complete solutions. Lico offers a wide range of ripping solutions for the mid-range production up to the most demanding requirements, the company says. A single system can be designed to produce from 20,000 board feet to 90,000 board feet (4/4) per shift with ripping yields up to 93 percent, Lico says.
licoinc.net
Lignomat USA Ltd.
The Ligno-VersaTec meter features pin, pinless and RH modes for dealing with wood floors. The meter has proven to be accurate and easy to use with dual-depth pinless measuring mode, the company says. The depth electrode E12 allows measurements of subfloors without removing the floor planks. The inspect electrode E14 allows for measuring the hardest floor coverings such as strand bamboo, etc. For measuring ambient conditions the fast-acting, precision RH probe can be added.
lignomat.com
Loba Wakol LLC
Loba Life is a one-component self-sealing water-based finish for hardwood floor coverings. It is used in residential applications to produce a beautiful and natural aesthetic for floors, the company says.
loba-wakol.com
Primatech Inc.
Developed with "end-wall reach" in mind, the Edge nailer is designed to blind-nail as close as within 2 inches of the wall. The constant pressure and tension throughout the work process provides a more uniform and professional installation, the company says.
primatech.ca
SanderParts.com
SanderParts.com supplies parts for American Sanders, Lägler, Bona, and Galaxy machines, hardwood flooring tools, products and equipment available to ship anywhere in the U.S.
sanderparts.com
Tactical Flooring Tools
Tactical Flooring Tools' ratchet flooring clamp features a ratchet plate that will fit under the toekick in the kitchen and still be able to tighten the strap. The strap material was chosen because it does not stretch like other straps, which must be completely stretched out before they begin to pull boards together. The color was chosen to easily find the clamps when rolling up in low light.
facebook.com/Tactical-Flooring-Tools
Virginia Abrasives
Virginia Abrasives' brand-new Sanding Sponges are designed for small projects, including woodworking and drywall smoothing. The sponges are available in boxes of 24 sponges to act as a counter display and help increase impulse buys, the company says. The sponges are available in single angle or dual angle sizes for easy corner access.
virginiaabrasives.com
Wagner Meters
Floor Sentry, the embedded wood floor data logger, monitors wood floor and subfloor temperature and relative humidity conditions through its Bluetooth connection with the Wagner Sentry app. It offers the ability to monitor real-time data, receive instant alerts for threshold breaches, effortlessly share detailed reports, and maintain precise control over wood floor and subfloor environments.
wagnermeters.com
