The Freudenberg Group is an internationally focused family enterprise with more than 150 years of tradition behind it. Its broad portfolio of products ranges from seals and vibration control components to nonwovens, from specialty lubricants to mechanical household cleaning products, plus of course floorcoverings, which are sold all over the world under the norament and noraplan brandnames.

Most of the Group's companies are vendors for a wide variety of sectors. With a share of more than 40 percent, the automotive industry is the largest customer grouping, ahead of the industrial sector in general. Other major Freudenberg customers operate in the textile and clothing industries. Many of Freudenberg Bausysteme' 28,000 staff worldwide also manufacture household products, which are sold under the vileda brand, or specialize in systems and tool engineering and IT technology.

Freudenberg Bausysteme KG has for many years been the world's market leader for rubber floorings. At the company's headquarters in Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany, around 920 staff manufacture and sell floorings designed for an enormous range of different requirements, and made from eco-friendly raw materials on state-of-the-art production lines. Airports are just one of the applications for nora floorcoverings, together with industrial facilities, commercial premises, residential buildings and health care installations.

Over 50 years of development work have culminated in numerous patents, evidencing the company's innovative vigor and continuously expanding the range of rubber floorings available - to open up new applications and new markets worldwide. Regular, stringent quality audits by prestigious European institutes confirm the high quality of the floorings from Freudenberg Bausysteme. And back in 1996 the world's market leader lost no time in subjecting its environmental management system to a voluntary audit as well.