Pergo is a trademark for laminate and PVC flooring produced by the Swedish company Perstorp AB . In 1977, as part of the Perstorp group, developed the first version of the laminate flooring . In 2012, the brand was acquired by Mohawk Industries for $ 150 million. [1]
Pergo | |
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Current owner | Mohawk Industries |
Country of origin | Sweden |
Start using | 1989 |
Former owners | Perstorp ab |
Site | pergo.ru/ru-ru |
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History
The Pergo brand appeared in the Swedish company Perstorp AB, which has been producing laminated material since the early 50s of the 20th century. [2]
1974 - Perstorp AB acquired a competing company AB Tilafabriken in the outskirts of the Swedish city of Trelleborg . The deal donated Perstorp a plant for the manufacture of nonwovens, as well as technologies and opportunities for the development of its own layered materials into final products, for example, tabletops, window sills, wall panels and so on.
1977 - At the meeting of the Idé-77 product development committee in Perstorp, they put forward the idea to create laminated flooring. [3] After development and successful testing, in 1979 the company launched the production of the first laminated flooring and introduced it to the market in 1980. [four]
1989 - after the competition for a new name, the Pergo trademark was first introduced as the abbreviated name Perstorp Golv (“golv” in Swedish means floor covering). [4] . A few years later, in 1994, Pergo entered the US market. [4] [5]
1995 - Pergo introduced products on the Asian market. [6] She also began developing a scratch resistant coating technology.
1999 - the company receives the first patent on the technology of vertical joining of plates. [7]
2000 - Perstorp Flooring Corporation, which includes several companies in different countries of the world, changed its name to Pergo. [eight]
2001 - Pergo received a patent for the technology of fastening laminate panels using snap. [9]
2009 - the company introduced a technology that allows laying the floor without using glue. [ten]
2013 - Pergo becomes a trademark representing several categories of flooring, presenting wood and vinyl floors on the market.
The appearance of the laminate
In the mid-1970s, Perstorp faced a sharp drop in sales of high pressure laminate. So in 1977, the company created a committee whose task is to propose new ideas for the use of a product that was once popular. For ideas, there was only one limitation: they should not be too far-fetched. The team was called Idé-77. She collected more than a hundred ideas, ranging from bowling lanes and pumping boards for the hockey field, covering bus stops and granaries. [eleven]
Idea No. 23
Idea No. 23 in the list of all the ideas of the committee was recorded as “Perkett-laminatgolv” (translated from Swedish - laminated flooring). It was one of the few proposals that suggested the creation of a trademark. After further research and testing, idea No. 23 gave the green light. In the fall of 1979, the company launched the world's first laminate. [eleven]
Notes
- ↑ Saabira Chaudhuri. Mohawk to acquire Pergo for $ 150 million in cash (English) (Neopr.) ? . MarketWatch. The appeal date is March 20, 2019.
- Years Plastic 100 years in Sweden - the history of plastic . www.perstorp.com. The appeal date is March 20, 2019.
- ↑ Anna Lindberg. First Impressions Last. A Kansei Engineering Study on Laminate Flooring at Pergo. // Institutionen för konstruktions- och produktionsteknik. - 2004. - p . 3 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Bathroom Readers' Institute. Uncle John's 24-Karat Gold Bathroom Reader . - Simon and Schuster, 2012-07-15. - 506 s. - ISBN 9781607106555 .
- ↑ Brand history (rus.) (Neopr.) ? . PE-Russia. The appeal date is March 20, 2019.
- ↑ Pergo . news.cision.com. The appeal date is March 20, 2019.
- ↑ Flooring material floor boards ? The appeal date is March 20, 2019.
- ↑ Bloomberg - Are you a robot? www.bloomberg.com. The appeal date is March 20, 2019.
- ↑ Flooring panel or wall panel and use thereof . The appeal date is March 20, 2019.
- ↑ Alfons Oebbeke. PerfectFold: leimlose, kompatible Klick-Verlegung von Bodenbelägen (German) . www.baulinks.de. The appeal date is March 20, 2019.
- ↑ 1 2 Idea 23: the legend behind laminate flooring . www.linkedin.com. The appeal date is March 20, 2019.