For more than 70 years, Bauwerk Parkett has been producing high-quality parquet flooring and country home planking. Abigail Saltmarsh finds out more about its extensive product range.
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esign, technology and remaining one step ahead of trends – Bauwerk Parqkett has built its reputation on its high quality wooden flooring and two-layer parquet and is determined to carry on in the same vein. Paul Eberle, the head of marketing international sales, explains that the company has a solid history that will continue to serve as a platform as it grows, develops and innovates over the coming years. “We strongly believe that it is important to stay a leader in terms of 2-layer quality, design and healthy living,” he explains. “This company is built on tradition and long experience. “Its products are sustainable and get wider and wider, or are unique items. We have ongoing challenges with design to discover the trends that are likely to be occurring over the coming four to five years and
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to apply them to our own product range. And this is something we are experienced at doing and are confident that we can continue to do.”
Laying the foundations The beginnings of Bauwerk as it is today were set in motion by Ernst Göhner in Seefeld, near Zurich, Switzerland, in 1935. He had already used his expertise in woodworking earlier in the manufacture of wooden bodywork for the German automobile industry. In 1935, however, a process for mosaic parquet was developed and, in 1944, Göhner moved parquet production from Altstätten to St Margrethen, in eastern Switzerland, where it is still based today. It was in 1944 that Bauwerk Parkett was founded with the mission of manufacturing
