Nora Systems - PVC-Free Rubber Floor Coverings and Stair-Tread Solutions for Ships

Nora Systems manufactures PVC-free high-performance rubber floor coverings for use on ships and oil rigs and has been utilising rubber for more than 50 years. One of the main advantages of this material is that rubber has the capacity to permanently and resiliently resist enormous loads and thus offers the best properties for the production of high-quality, high-performance floor coverings. Nora Systems produces a variety of rubber floors for transportation and non-transportation applications, known under the trade names of Norament and Noraplan.

Our Nora floor covering and stair-tread solutions for the international shipbuilding industry are the result of long-term experience in rubber and the close partnerships with planners and users.

NORA: CHEMICAL RESISTANT FLOOR COVERINGS FOR SHIPS

Thanks to their convincing benefits with regard to quality and functionality, the floor coverings meet the specific demands made on floor coverings for interior use in passenger liners/ferries, cruisers, tankers, container ships, and marine ships worldwide. The following qualities make Nora floor coverings our customers’ number one choice:

• Extremely long life, resulting in less frequent need of disposal
• Extraordinarily wear-resistant with anti-slip properties
• Full fire-protection properties
• Largely resistant to chemicals
• High level of footfall sound absorption
• Permanently resilient with a high walking comfort
• Anti-static: no electrostatic charge build-up from walking, thus no perceptible discharges
• Easy and economic cleaning without extra coating; extremely dense surface, thus dirt-repellent
• Environmentally compatible - no PVC, plasticizers (phthalates) and no halogens (e.g. chlorine)
• Free from asbestos, cadmium, CFCs, and formaldehyde

We are also able to meet specific customer requirements and special demands, offering floor coverings with features such as:

• Electrostatically dissipative
• Largely resistant to oils and greases

Nora rubber floor coverings also represent a convincing price/benefit ratio.

FLAME RETARDANT FLOOR COVERINGS

Nora floor coverings meet the highest demands on quality and all-important provisions for the use in seagoing vessels and on oil rigs:

• Flame-retardant for seagoing vessels according to the SOLAR rules
• Tested according to the valid IMO resolutions MSC.61 (67) FTP Code, Annex 1, Part 2, and A.653 (16), with regard to fire behaviour, smoke density, and fire-toxicological safety in case of fire
• Approved by See-Berufsgenossenschaft (maritime social insurance against occupational accidents) (European notified authority, ID no. 0736) Germanischer Lloyd, Bureau Veritas, Det Norske Veritas, Nippon Kaiji Kyokai and U.S. Coast Guard.
• Satisfies the Marine Equipment Directive (= MED) EU directive on ship equipment (directives 96/98/EC and 98/95/EC)

Our range carries rubber floor coverings with a smooth or slightly structured or studded surface, available in sheets and tiles of different thicknesses. They are available in various designs and in a choice of more than 100 colours from our standard product range.

INTERNATIONAL FLOOR COVERING CONSULTANCY

Nora communicates the market leader's know-how with professionally informed consultancy, comprehensive customer support and dependable order processing worldwide. We recognise that it is only by intensive cooperation with architects and customers, consultant engineers and installation companies that an optimum result can be achieved, and the entire potential inherent in Nora rubber floor coverings be deployed to the full.

Our expert field sales consultants are at the customers' disposal, from initial planning through processing and installation to responsive after-sales support. Thus specialized applications and individual design ideas can be dependably incorporated into the overall concept, particularly for large-scale projects.