Case Study

BEYOND GREEN

WONDERFUL DEADLESS BARK-USE TREE

As not a timber, cork bark, is collected from cork oaks, which

are grown up in Mediterranean coastline and Qin ling area

in China at the same latitude and are re-growthable because

of its honeycomb fiber structure in intersecting surface after

grind lamination.

Cork bark floor, having the advantage of moisture-proof, sound

and thermal insulation, soft feeling on foot and high price, is

called as "breathable skin-friendly floor" and "soft gold floor" in

international market. Only the top rank consumers will use it in

the floor.

Ma Daochang,

Chairman of Laucork

Respect and excitement will arise in our heart when witnessing every prominent

innovation comes into the reality. Now Laucork tile once again touches us, by its ideal

of sustainable development and environment protection ,love for mankind, care for the

earth, which are carried out and implemented by green technology during the whole

loop-linked life cycle, including the collection of raw materials, all process production,

personalized printing and utilization in daily life.

INNOVATION BY TECHNOLOGY

REALIZING CUSTOM-MADE

Laucork's unique high-tech digital printing technology is

a major technological breakthrough in the development

history of cork tiles industry, which realize the custom-made

demands via overcoming the obstacle of surface printing-

-how to duplicate the different materials' texture such as

wood, marble, ceramic tile and carpet, and picture designs in

the international floor industry.

"Digital printing technology has led innovation in custom-

made cork floor industry today", Liu Baoxuan, General

Manager of Laucork, who has 15 years' industry experiences,

told us, "EFI’s environment friendly idea and LED cool cure

technology, which has the feature of avoiding overheat,

transformation and saving the energy, has satisfied the

technology demand for personalized print, and thus reduce

the production cost than other printing technology. Liu

explains to us," The application of personalized printing

"EFI's environment friendly idea and LED cool cure technology, which has the feature of avoiding overheat, transformation and saving the energy, has satisfied the technology demand for personalized print, and thus reduce the production cost than other printing technology."

Liu Baoxuan,

General Manager of Laucork

Liu Baoxuan, General Manager of Laucork

technology in cork tile floor will help every customer to

participate in the floor design during home decoration,

therefore making the cork tile floor more good-looking and

comfortable, meeting the real demand for every consumer."

Laucork, with its current personalized printing technology

and the cork tile's excellence such as comfortable feeling,

moisture prevention, thermal prevention, sound-proof

and nearly zero-formaldehyde emission, will soon be a

leading provider from ordinary cork tile to ceramic-like

cork tile, marble-like cork, carpet-like cork and decoration

background cork wall.

THE BIGGEST CORK PRODUCTION IN ASIA BY

UPDATING THE PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY

As the biggest cork product manufacturing base in Asia

and now occupying 150 Mu (about 99900 square meters),

Laucork, with its business vision of "enjoying the cork,

enjoying the life", bring the customers a real life experience

on how to live in harmony with the family members and its

nature, through "zero wood consumption by not cutting the

cork but only the bark", which means that using one square

meter cork tile will avoid cutting one tree.

Having employed 6 product designers, who produce one

style every day, Laucork can satisfy different personalized

demands, with its products of 1000 patterns in 12 series and

over 40000 combined designs.

"As No.28 working sequence in the production of cork tiles,

digital printing's stable production technology is the primary

element to update the production efficiency," Liu added,

"Currently, EFI's VUTEk GS3250LX Pro's high speed and

stable output quality can totally satisfy the industrialized

demands. With the business expansion and continuous

update, EFI's VUTEk's digital LED UV inkjet printer is our first

choice in the future."

Confucius's remark, "Be not afraid of growing slowly, be

afraid of standing still", once cited by Guy Gecht, EFI's CEO,

has encouraged many small and medium sized enterprises

to grow up in adverse situation in global downturn

economy. Situated in Qufu, Confucius' hometown, Laucork,

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now having over 40 sales shops, is

ambitious to expand steadfast to 300

shops in the next 3 years. Keeping

pace with the Internet times, Laucork

also set up "Cork Internet", the first

factory direct sales Internet center,

which can eliminate the medium

process by customizing the order to the

manufacturing factory directly, helping

more ordinary families joyfully use

the cork tile, so-called "soft gold in the

floor".