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The Bauwerk Group: innovative

and sustainable for generations

Sustainable success. Built on passion.

The Bauwerk Group employs more than 2,000 people all over the Both businesses were successful companies that set the highest
world. Every day, they create unique and sustainable parquet floors standards. In 2013, they merged to form a corporate group, head-
from the finest woods. The company’s sense of tradition, innovative quartered in St. Margrethen, and acquired Somerset Hardwood
strength and enthusiasm for wood as a natural material result in real Flooring, a North American parquet specialist with a long tradition, in
wood parquet flooring of uncompromising quality. 2022. Today, the Bauwerk Group is one of the leading producers and
suppliers of parquet flooring in the premium segment. And with
It was in 1935 that Swiss entrepreneur Ernst Göhner launched Klötzli sustainable success.
parquet, laying the first stone for the renowned Bauwerk Parquet
brand. The name quickly became synonymous with cutting-edge
solutions in Swiss precision. 08006 525 280
uksales@boen.com
1953 saw the BOEN brand start producing quality parquet in www.boen.com
Scandinavian design far to the north, in southern Norway, where
wood has been processed since 1641.

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