Solid wood flooring, also known as wood flooring, is directly processed with solid wood. It has natural wood texture, and is a poor conductor of heat, which can have the effect of warm in winter and cool in summer. It can also bring the best comfort to feet and is safe to use. It is ideal material for bedroom, living room and study room. Solid wood decorative style is to return to nature and with natural texture. Nowadays, forest cover rate is declining and vigorously promote environmental protection, Solid wood flooring is more precious. Solid wood flooring is divided to level AA, level A and level B, among of which, AA level has the highest quality.
Classification of solid wood flooring
1) Classified by shape: mortise join solid wood flooring, even joint solid wood flooring
2) Classified by lacquered or not on the surface: lacquered solid wood flooring, unlacquered solid wood flooring.
Lacquered solid wood flooring is divided into spray painting and roll painting plate, the floor surface of which has been painted with floor paint, and you can use directly after installation. Unlacquered solid wood flooring is plain plate, the floor surface of which has not been painted, and it must be painted with floor paint after installation. Because plain plate will be polished and painted with floor paint after installation, the surface is smooth and paint film is as a whole, both decorating effect and quality are better than that of lacquered floor, just installation is more time-consuming.
3) Classified by processing technology
(1) Tongue-and-groove wood flooring (Also known as mortise join solid wood flooring or Longfeng flooring). The flooring has opened tongue and groove both in the longitudinal and width direction. Tongue and groove is generally less than or equal to 1/3 plate thickness, and the tongue is slightly bigger than the groove. The back of the vast majority is with anti-deformation groove.
(2) Finger-jointed flooring is combined and glued by same width and different length plates. The combination structure is the same as that of tongue-and-groove wood flooring.
(3) Integrated timber flooring (Mosaic flooring) is spliced with same width small plates and then transverse spliced with multi-pieces finger-jointed plates. This kind of flooring has large width and good dimensional stability.
(4) Parquet flooring is a geometric mosaic of wood pieces used for decorative effect. The production process of this kind of flooring is complex and the precision is also high.
(5) Classicized solid wood flooring is solid wood flooring with the classical style, the surface of which is special processed in artistic form. The superiority lies in its superficial effect which is formed by artificial carving. Therefore, its unique artistic character cannot be found in plain solid wood flooring.
4) Classified by installation method: which can divided into mortise join solid wood flooring, even joint solid wood flooring and parquet flooring and so on. Nowadays, mortise join solid wood flooring is most popular.
5) Classified by lacquered or not: which can divided into lacquered solid wood flooring and unlacquered solid wood flooring. Nowadays, UV lacquered solid wood flooring is most popular.
6) Classified by wood: which can divided into domestic wood flooring and imported wood flooring. Domestic wood commonly used are Betula, Fraxinus mandschurica Rupr., Xylosma racemosum, Fagus longipetiolata, beech, elm, maple, walnut, ACey mono and so on. The most popular are Betula, Fraxinus mandschurica Rupr. and Xylosma racemosum. Imported wood commonly used are Kempas, Merbau, Dialium spp Keranji, Balsam, Ipe, Teak, Bubinga, Courbaril, Cumaru, Kulim, Tetramerista glabra, Massaranduba and etc.
Solid wood flooring is an important ground pavement material, in the early 1980s of the 20th century, with the reform and opening, people's living level raised, house decoration became an important part of living improving, at the same time, Solid wood flooring also entered ordinary families.
In recent years, China's sustained and steady economic growth, accelerated process of urban and rural construction, fast development of Chinese real estate industry, rapid improvement of people's living standards, continuous rising of home decoration and national industrial policy support provide a good economic environment for solid wood flooring, creating a huge market demand.
Judging from the whole industry, our country sales of solid wood flooring have jumped to the leading position in the world at present. Solid wood flooring in the Chinese market have firmly held the status of high-end home furnishing consumer goods, occupying the high-end market share, unabated. Our country's annual sales volume of solid wood flooring all amounted to about 45 million square meters from 2006 to 2008. The sales volume of solid wood flooring in 2009 amounted to 42 million square meters, the same as that in 2008. Such a huge amount of sales reflected that our national income level and consumption level were in a rapid increase, consumers tended to choose high-end consumer products and solid wood flooring products occupied an important position in the social life.
Solid wood flooring enterprises are numerous in China, but the scales of individual enterprises are generally small all the time. The enterprises are obviously scattered and small. With the further development of market polarization, this situation will gradually be reversed. Domestic high-end consumer groups are not sensitive to the floor price changes, but they pay more attention to product quality, shopping environment and good service. Large enterprises and famous brands can better satisfy the needs of above customers, so some national strong brands will occupy more and more market share.
With the change in price and market environment, China solid wood flooring market consumer groups have also undergone major changes. Due to the global shortage of timber supply, the price of solid wood flooring continued to rise. The vast majority of purchasers of solid wood flooring are middle or high-income families. Solid wood flooring aristocratic trend has been gradually formed.
Speeding development of China's wood flooring industry also benefited from tempering in all kinds of crisis in the market both at home and abroad. Influenced by timber market fluctuations triggered by tsunami in 2004, and then solid wood flooring price increasing and consumption declining and more intense market competition caused in 2005, especially the policy of solid wood flooring in the domestic market imposing 5% consumption tax in 2006, these solid wood flooring enterprises are pushed to the forefront. Therefore, China wood flooring industry should plan the prospect goal, adjust strategy mentality and actively build a strong brand to promote the sustained and healthy development of solid wood flooring.
As people tend to pursue living attitude of environmental protection and nature original ecology, solid wood flooring has become the first choice for home decoration. Flooring materials enter into healthy turnover, which lay a solid foundation for the flooring industry. Solid wood flooring will also become mainstream product in the future market.
(Source: Jiuzheng Building Materials Network)
