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BERTI PAVIMENTI LEGNO: business presentation

Berti’s Brand Berti Wooden Floors: the parquet’s history that grow. The company, founded by Cesare Berti in Villa del Conte, Italy, in 1910, is today Italy’s leading parquet manufacturer.

Some things change with time, but some others things never change: the company is still a true family business and it is managed personally by the company owners.

The raw materials are chosen by material sourced from forests that are managed correctly from an environmental point of view, to a flooring that upgrades every room and turns your house into a home.

Choose Berti and BertiStudio products’ quality for a high quality prefinished parquet flooring.

Berti’s group profile: Berti spa is one of the main companies in the national and international wood flooring sector. Company's activity is based on two different (but combined) cornerstones: productive department and supply and distribution through a shops franchise. Berti's family, the company's founders, Mr. Giancarlo and his wife Rosanna and their sons Matteo, Andrea and Massimo have always been very careful to market's evolutions.

Today it counts 220 staff people and more than 140 shops in Italy and worldwide.

This company has been the first to use laser technology for parquet flooring marquetry. Today it uses sofisticated IT equipment, complex machinery for production which allow to offer a wide array of solutions and to create hard customized floors, Italian made products which reflect someone's personality. Different locations, but always versatile.

Marquetry wood floors, for instance: Berti can create special refinishings according to the customer's drawings. Our warehouse contains about 12.500 pallets places for more than one million square meters always ready for the market.

Berti parquet, excellent finish wood flooring 100% Italian made, tastings and different atmospheres with a wide variety of styles.

Company history For almost eighty years the wood, the absolute raw 1987 Vepal S.a.s. was acquired, a Company that established itself during material of its art, marks the history of Berti.

1910 Cesare Berti was born in Villa del Conte, in the Padua province. When he was only twelve he was already at work as an apprentice carpenter. In 1929, he branched out on his own and started a small carpentry workshop.

1950 Cesare Berti moved his business to a new location, a bigger one. He purchased a sawmill and for some time he focused on the timber trade.

the years in the Italian market for the manufacturing of melaminefinished floors and of big size flooring boards.

1992 More innovations. The name of the company was changed to “Berti Pavimenti Legno”. The employment of the modern laser technology ensures a very precise hardwood cut, without limits to complexity: it starts the creation of works of extraordinary prestige, as some floors of the Kremlin Palace and the accurate reconstruction of the floor at the Windsor Castle. An exclusive new process was employed, enabling the production of wooden floor with an aged look: the “Antique” line was created.

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2000/2004

Season of great building development: Cesare Berti established the “IN.PAR. Industria Parchetti”, a company specialized in the manufacturing and installation of wooden floors. Soon Cesare has to look for new supplying sources of raw material: as a start, he begins the import of wood from Hungary.

The market takes up toward the pre-finished floor: begins a changeover of the machineries, with the purchase of four new manufacturing lines. In 2002, it begins the production of the big size pre-finished. In 2004 three new machineries for the parquet prefinished inlaid wooden floor were purchased.

1971 The new generation steps forward. Cesare Berti and the sons Giancarlo and Silvano established the “P.B. Parchettificio Berti”, which since the beginning counts over 100 employees and it is the first company in the wood industry to employ the computerized lines for the choice of the wooden floor.

1980 The Company follows the market and the technologies development.

Initially it focuses on the production of design floors, with geometric patterns inspired by the floorings of the antique mansion houses of the Veneto region and by other artistic buildings. Afterwards, thanks to the employment of the laser cut technique, it begins the manufacturing of innovative inlaid floors.

2005 The construction of the new industrial plant of Berti Pavimenti Legno Group begins.

2008 Berti finalized the construction of the new self-supporting warehouse. It contains 12.500 pallet spaces and a warehousing capacity of 1 million sq. ms of parquet flooring. All the loading and unloading operations are fully automated, thanks to Hi-tech hardware and software and the use of four robots moving on rails.

2012 The new water based varnishing system starts working: it’s a 250 meter long lacquering line that allows to produce the whole range of Berti parquet flooring.

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The new branch of the ďŹ rm: In 2005 the works for the expansion of the new branch started. The project was born from the idea of creating a unique and big complex in which to bring together, both from a productive and from a trade point of view, all of the three brands of the Group.The entire area extends for 76.000 square meters and the planned buildings cover a surface of 18.000 square meters. An element of relevance is the automated warehouse for the pallets, made of an advanced structure with auto-loading shelves. A new generation information system guarantees the actual managing of the materials, without the need of operators.

Worldwide prestigious installations WORLDWIDE PROJECTS • KREMLIN PALACE - Moscow - Russia Floorings for President’s Office, Katharina’s Hall, and all the others main halls and offices. Elaborate laser inlays floors and pattern floors over an area of about 6.000 sqm.

• WINDSOR CASTLE - Windsor – Great Britain English Royalty place of residence. Reconstruction true to the original of the floor destroyed by a fire. Laser inlays floors and pattern floors with Royal Family friezes.

• PRESIDENT PALACE – Reception Hall - Kiev - Ukraine Floor with elaborate decoration in laser inlays.

• PRESIDENTIAL PALACE - Astana – Kazakhstan About 6.000 sqm of laser inlays floors, pattern floors, traditional floors and prefinished 2-layers floors.

• ROSEHILL PROJECT - Private Residence - Albany (NY) About 300 smq of laser inlays floors, pattern floors and trational floors.

• PROJECT 205 E59 - Manhattan - New York (NY) - U.S.A. About 6.500 smq of prefinished 3-layers lacquered Asian Teak floors.

• MORTON SQUARE PROJECT - New York (NY) - U.S.A. About 20.000 smq of prefinished 2-layers lacquered Doussie floors.

• SEQ PROJECT - Arab Countries Designed by the architect Salma Elia Qushair. About 500 sqm of laser inlay floors for a princess’ private residence.

• PRIVATE VILLA - Moscow - Russia About 550 Smq of elaborate laser inlay floors.

• ROYAL HOTEL - Osaka - Japan Geometrical pattern floors.

• NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM - Osaka – Japan • HOFBURG IMPERIAL PALACE - Vienna - Austria • CAFÈ CENTRAL - FERSTEL PALACE - Vienna - Austria • IMPERIAL HOTEL - Vienna - Austria • PRIVATE RESIDENCE - Grinzing - Vienna – Austria • SCHÖNBORN-BATTHYANY PALACE - Vienna – Austria • ROYAL ACCADEMY OF ARTS - London - Great Britain • GOVERNMENT PALACE - Akmola - Kazakhstan • ASTANA HOTEL - Akmola - Kazakhstan

• PRESIDENT NUR SULTAN NAZARBAYEV RESIDENCE Akmola – Kazakhstan • HEAD OF THE STATE SAPAR MURAT NIYAZOV RESIDENCE Turkmenistan • PRESIDENT RESIDENCE - Tatarstan • GOVERNOR RESIDENCE - Kazan - Tatarstan • PRESIDENT SALON - Asghabat - Turkmenistan • GOVERNMENT GUEST-HOUSE - Istanbul - Turkey • AUSTRALIA EMBASSY- Turkey • KAZAKISTAN EMBASSY - Moscow - Russia • GASPROM PROJECT - Moscow - Russia • COMMUNICATION MINISTRY - Moscow - Russia • MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT - Ljubljana - Slovenia • COURTHOUSE - Ljubljana - Slovenia LOCA MUSEUM - Slovenia • • AGNATOS CAFÈ- Croazia • NA-VA BANK- Zagreb - Croatia • UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA - Central Palace - Croatia • PRESIDENT RESIDENCE - Belgrade - Serbia Laser inlays floors and pattern floors.

• TARO RESIDENCE - Pedraalbes - Barcelona - Spain • LA ZAGALETA RESIDENCE - Marbella - Málaga - Spain • METROPOLE HOTEL - Monaco - Principality of Monaco Laser inlays floors with floral patterns.

• SHEIKHA SAYED AL SABAH ROYAL PALACE - Kuwait • ORIAN - New York City - U.S.A. - About 23.200 smq – Wooden species: Iroko • MORTON SQUARE (HIGH RISE) - Manhattan, NY - U.S.A. About 18.600 smq • GRAMERCY PARK HOTEL - Manhattan, NY - U.S.A. About 4.200 smq • 205 EAST 59th STREET - Manhattan, NY - U.S.A. About 7.000 smq • ARMANI HOTEL – BURJ DUBAI TOWERS – DUBAI – U.A.E. Collezione Berti-Studio • DACIA PRESIDENZIALE - Sochi - Russia • ASTANA AUDITORIUM - Kazakhstan • DIESEL FLASGSHIP STORE – Melrose Place, Los Angeles, California

Prestigious works all over the world.

ITALIAN WORKS • BELVEDERE VILLA - Macherio - Monza Silvio Berlusconi’s residence, designed by architect Mario Garbuia.

Laser inlays floor with a wonderful chromatic play.

• GRAN TEATRO “LA FENICE” - Venice The most representive halls are: Theatre Hall, Dante’s Hall and Grand Hall. (Reconstruction true to the original gone destroyed). Area : About 2500 smq • “LINGOTTO” AUDITORIUM - Turin Large strip floor in Cherry wood with a particular arrangement on different levels.

• QUIRINAL PALACE - Rome President of the Republic. Geometric pattern floors.

• PALAZZO MONTECITORIO - Rome Geometric pattern floors, compositions and bordes with laser inlays.

• PRIVATE RESIDENCE “GUCCI” FAMILY – Milan Geometric pattern floors and bordes with laser inlays.

• BYBLOS ART HOTEL VILLA AMISTÀ - Valpolicella - Verona Atelier Mendini project.

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MUSEO CASA DEI CARRARESI - Treviso

• “BERTI SUITE” - Villa del Conte - Padua Elaborate laser inlays floor perfected with mother-of-pearl.

• DIESEL STORE – Orio al Serio – Bergamo Oak wide planks with customized finishes.

• BASE OFFICES DOLCE&GABBANA – Milano Berti 2 layers wide planks with customized finishes.

Environment A DEEP RESPECT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT Berti Pavimenti Legno uses a considerable quantity of multilayer Birch plywood for the production of the pre-finished floors.

It is indeed for the preservation of the environment, for a deep respect of Mother-Nature which constantly provides the material, that the company has chosen to select among its suppliers of birch plywood only the ones with the FSC certification (Forest Stewardship Council).

FSC is a no-profit organization of the Pan-European Forest Certification Council, involved in the certification system for the sustainable forest management. All the products marked with the FSC label, are certified as coming from forests that respect the Principles and Criteria of proper forest management, and by the maintenance of the ‘Chain of Custody’ Certification.

The “endorsement of forest certification” is an inspection procedure that allows a company to issue a document proving that the forms of woodland management meet particular requirements and criteria of environmental sustainability.

The application of the rules contained into the FSC certification scheme certifies that the Group, using only raw materials coming from European forests managed in an eco-sustainable way, gives a contribution to the safeguard of the forest ecosystems. - See more at: http://en.berti.net/company/environment#sthash.3ABgvRnh.dpuf

Entrepreneurial commitment and social sensibility.

THE CHARITY ORGANISATION "MOTHER TERESA".

Berti Pavimenti Legno is a company aware of social issues and works towards social responsibility. “Mother Teresa” is the demonstration, a constructive and social charity organisation founded on the awareness of the importance of human dignity, providing through voluntary work and a number of initiatives both financial and moral aid to the weaker groups in our society.

Motivating and supporting local government to develop policies aimed at providing aid to the needy; supporting distance adoption programmes and missionary work; promoting fair trade: these are just some examples of how this Charity Organisation operates and which is aimed at above all at residents living in the local area, local authorities and who works towards increasing solidarity, building an awareness of aid, social justice and participation in local democracy. In addition to raising funds to support the organisation itself, “Mother Teresa” implements financial initiatives during events and in collaboration with the parishes such as the sale of products produced by charities and third sector organisations. To promote social and cultural awareness this Charity organisation organises events to provide information and promote its aims through film societies, testimonials and debates.

http://www.associazionemadreteresa.net/

Berti’s parquet are high-quality parquet flooring, in all key markets around the world.

The Berti brand symbolizes the extensive expertise and high quality standards in every single Berti’s board.

Experience quality made in Italy with every step.

Berti’s brands include Berti collection, that introduces the different wood species, characterized by carefully selected types of wood. In BertiStudio collection, the oak floor is developed between a selection of nuances and unique finishing effects.

Quality flooring parquet, wood flooring supply and installation.

HARDWOOD LAYER

BIRCH PLYWOOD

DESCRIPTION OF PRE-FINISHED MULTI-LAYER The word pre-finished multi-layers generally means a series of wood elements consisting of more layers, manufactured with tongue-and-groove joints on the sides, previously calibrated, sanded and lacquered before installation.

Pre-finished strong points :

ighly innovative product; H upporting layer, that maintain the floor perfect; S High properties of durability and hardness; Absolute quality of the manufacturing; Specific surface finish; Great aesthetic value and extremely natural effect.

The main characteristics of Berti’s product are:

ouble-quick installation; D ardness; H Strength during the time; Totally water-proofing surface.

Berti pre-finished floors represent a great solution of elegance and handiness.

HIGH RESISTANCE LACQUERING Berti pre-finished floors are supplied already lacquered.

PROFILING

The peculiar finishing technique of the hardwood top layer consists of: 6 primer coats for the pre-finished

LUX applied with the roller (about

200 grams per square meter), followed by a curtain coat finishing (about 100 grams per square meter) 4 primer coats for the pre-finished ANTICO applied with the roller (about 140 grams per square meter), followed by a curtain coat finishing (about 80 grams per square meter)

4 primer coats for the pre-finished BASIC applied with the roller (about

140 grams per square meter), followed by a curtain coat finishing (about 80 grams per square meter).

This guarantees the product with an outstanding hardness and wear resistance, making the floor practically eternal. The drying of the lacquer in special UV Rays ovens makes the Berti pre-finished a functional floor and ready to walk over just after the installation.

Berti wooden floors, finished with water based lacquer, are environmentally friendly: they can boast a 95% reduction of toxic emissions, in comparison with a common solvent based lacquer, maintaining in the meantime a high professional quality level.

profiling of each element is carried out through very advanced diamond tools which guarantee the perfect cut of

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It is indeed for this reason that Berti pre-finished planks profiles do not appear with any ledges and roughness marks, typical of the imperfect cuts.The tongue-and-groove of the birch plywood support in manufactured with the same profiling technique. In this way it is possible to obtain high precision joints for a perfect assembling of the wooden elements and a flatness of the floor.

LASER INLAYS

Long-time Berti experience, research and develop work of its Technical Office department allow to understand the requirements of every customer and to transform them into wood floors parquet, marquetry works of any complexity thanks to specific software.

By working with designers and famous architects, our technical department thanks to the laser technology can realize and produce marquetry flooring parquet , wood floors and walls.

Berti is not only addressed to the private owners but can offer a complete service even to Trade and Public Contract, by proposing specific solutions for parquet floors supply and installation for showrooms, hotels and restaurants.

Some examples of custom made solutions:

Some examples of custom made solutions:

Some examples of custom made solutions:

Some examples of custom made solutions:

PATTERN FLOORS With Pattern Floors, the wood and its warmths are the only characters of the house, in an inďŹ nite game of contrasts and tones: one contrasts, armonic geometry, beautiful pairings.

Parquet decorative solutions which are the expression of a perfect combination between creativity and precision, tradition and modernity.

Everyone is free to make up the marquetry which he likes, with a wide variety of materials, styles and colors.

PARQUET DECKING: HAVANA Barefoot, completely natural wood flooring and parquet, excellent furnishing objects ideals to customize and cover pool borders, terraces, steam rooms, gardens and gazebos.

Havana decking best qualities are:

Resistant; Functional; Completely built of solid wood; Allowing to realize high class flooring.

OUTDOOR PARQUET: HAVANA Berti Havana collection has three different product lines:

HAVANA DECKING

Berti Havana Decking is made with planks in Iroko heartwood, with an optional width of 95 or 120 mm. It is 19 mm thick, specially studied to bear the strain of high loads stress. Easy to install and of a great aesthetic effect, the Berti havana planks are installed on specific supporting profiles (wood sleepers).

HAVANA WPC

The product Havana WPC ( Wood Plastic Composit) is composed of 60% bamboo and 40% of a polymers combination. You get the impression to have wood, but with all the advantages deriving from the use of modern plastic materials. Besides, it is a product respecting the ecological principles as it reuses wood and biocompatible polypropylene, which are treated to high temperatures and great pressure.

HAVANA TECH

Havana Tech is the absolute news of Havana range: it is an innovative proposal coming from an exclusive Berti patent in order to grant an incomparable relationship among quality, duration and price of the wooden floor for outdoor.

Havana Tech is the first wooden floor for outdoor composed of aluminium modules supporting a hardwood element with a thickness of about 7-10 mm.

Havana Tech planks can have a total thickness of 19mm, assuring extraordinary performances in terms of resistance to high loading.

PARQUET: WALL CLADDING o Modular structures with a wide array of woods and finishings, o You can customize with creativity every space.

Natural wood warmth, but also modern fantasy of light sources designed according to your taste. Thanks to LED-RGB technology applied to parquet, the wall cladding shines in a new way, giving the eye new emotions through unique modular walls.

The cladding’s modular structure and internal anchoring system were developed and patented by Berti.

Easy installation without glue or screws.

The structure anchors to wall or ceiling allowing an excellent easy assembly

The wood cladding: o is fixed to the structure only with steel hooks. o allows the passage of cables for electrical, plumbing or vacuum systems

Touch screen systems include advanced programming solutions to control and regulate lighting.

VINTAGE AVANTGARDE

By suggesting unexpected types of wood and finishing levels, new collections of flooring are developed that adapt different tastes and atmospheres, with an exceptional variety of stylesand colours. Everyone is free to express his own way of being, his own personality, in a frank and modern way.

Berti Studio suggestions consist in two different parquet collections: the VINTAGE one, for special aging finishings that remember past atmospheres, and the AVANTGARDE one, for contemporary and sophisticated tastes.

For BertiStudio collections you can choose between three different kind of structure and sizes:

AVANTGARDE With Avantgarde collection, Berti Studio proposes oak tables with sophisticated treatments, games of lights and colors which gives the wood floor a glamour effect, according to the most contemporary trends in wooden floors and parquet.

Avantgarde is a Prefinished parquet made of big oak wood, available on three different install types.

AVANTGARDE is a pre-finished parquet made with large dimension boards, you can choose between three different kind of structure and sizes: * Exclusive 2 Layers; * Exclusive 3 Layers; * Entry level.

VINTAGE VINTAGE is a special aging finishings that remember past atmospheres, series proposes exclusive superficial treatments, for a parquet in which the nostalgic tradition of the wood floors is highly marked. That's how Berti Studio's Vintage collection has born. Thanks to specific antique techniques and ecological paint finishings you can have a modern parquet with the ancient wooden floor charme.

VINTAGE is a pre-finished parquet made with large dimension boards, you can choose between three different kind of structure and sizes: * Exclusive 2 Layers; * Exclusive 3 Layers; * Entry level.

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