nora systems - Rubber Floors for Public Transport

nora systems produces a variety of rubber floors for transportation and non-transportation applications, known under the trade names of norament and noraplan. The extensive range of transport application areas for nora floor coverings and stair treads include light and heavy rail vehicles, high speed trains, people movers, subways, buses and marine applications.

For more than 50 years, nora systems has been transforming rubber into floor coverings, ensuring floorings of superlative quality based on innovative development work, groundbreaking production processes and uncompromising quality assurance. This is all produced in true trend-setting designs and colours.

nora systems's extensive knowledge of rubber floorings stretches from a deep technical understanding to a thorough knowledge of installation techniques, national and international standards, as well as the impact rubber floor coverings can have on the environment.

nora rubber flooring

nora floor coverings are well prepared to meet all specific requirements in the worldwide transportation business. Leaving our customer satisfied is of utmost priority. We take pride in our diverse worldwide projects: people movers in Las Vegas, ICE bistro wagons for DB, metro Taipei in Taiwan, Amtrak metro liner, CITADIS in Montpellier, Orleans, Lyon, Valenciennes and Dublin, tramways in Berlin and Rome, TER X73500 and TER X72500 in France and the renovation of nearly 1,200 New York subway cars using approximately 113,000m² of noraplan.

Advantages of rubber floor coverings

The extensive range of reasons why rubber floor coverings are our customers' number one choice are as follows:

• Environmentally safe: made of high-quality rubber, mineral fillers, and environmental friendly colour pigments
• PVC-free: free of PVC, plasticizers (phthalates) and halogens (e.g. chlorine)
• Extraordinary wear-resistance: extremely long lifespan, resulting in less frequent need of disposal
• Dirt-repellent and easy to clean: due to its extremely dense surface and "nora cleanguard", the surface finishing has through post-curing
• No need for extra coating: significantly reduced care and maintenance costs as well as wastewater loading
• Dimensionally stable: does not contain any plasticizers thus is shrinkage resistant
• Resistant to cigarette burns: no surface damage
• Outstanding fire-protection properties: fire/smoke behaviour tested according to DIN 4102, DIN 5510, NF F 16-101, ASTM E-648 and E-662, BS 476 p.7, BS 6853 App. B.5.4, UIC-Codex 564-2/12. Carbonisation gases are non-toxic. No corrosive vapours, no source for dioxins and furans (please contact us for further details on compliance with additional international fire-protection standards)
• Permanently resilient: lasting high walking comfort
• Excellent footfall sound absorption: peak value up to 20dB
• Antistatic: no electrostatic charge build-up from walking, thus no perceptible discharges
• Free from asbestos, cadmium, CFCs and formaldehyde
• Easy disposal

Our website offers a detailed six-language look at nora floor covering and our business philosophy.

nora systems will exhibit at Railway Interiors Cologne from 24-26 November 2009, at stand number 7042.