Healthy living

ter Hürne floors for your consciously designed living environment

We create products that you come into contact with every day. They are an important part of your home. Our floors support the sense that you and your loved ones are in good hands. Since a consciously designed living environment is important in ensuring things stay that way.

At ter Hürne, we have a special responsibility towards you. As such, we take it upon ourselves to equip our floors with the best possible characteristics to offer you precisely that: a consciously designed living environment.

DID YOU KNOW?

Sick building syndrome

Some people report feeling unwell or experiencing headaches in certain indoor spaces.

One possible factor is what's known as sick building syndrome, which happens if we spend too much time indoors. Wall coverings, furniture and the floor have a constant effect on us. What we inhale is what these products have previously exhaled. We are talking about emissions here. Depending on the material, products can release emissions into the indoor air. Improvements in building insulation reduce the exchange between internal and external air. The pollutants remain in the room for longer.

Do you also spend a lot of time at home?

PLASTIC-FREE

The materials we use make it possible

Dureco consists almost mostly of wood and other organic materials. Every layer of the product's structure contains high-quality and long-lasting components.

The centrepiece of the floor is its compressed baseboard made from timber fibres. This is stabilised on the underside by a stabilising layer also made from wood fibres. The surface of the Dureco floor consists of resin, into which we mix the mineral corundum.

Dureco consists, like engineered hardwood flooring, largely of wood and other organic materials. One cubic metre of wood stores one tonne of CO². That helps to reduce the CO² levels in our atmosphere. Some of the wood in the baseboards comes from storm-damaged trees. The carbon bound in the wood remains stored in the product throughout its use.

ANTIBACTERIAL

More than just clean

Spilled liquids, pets and the soles of your shoes transfer a wide variety of bacteria onto your floor.

Your floor not only looks beautiful, it remains clean, because the special surface treatment reduces the growth of bacteria.

So your floor is more than clean.

OUR CONTRIBUTION TO YOUR CONSCIOUSLY DESIGNED HOME

Not a trend but an attitude!

Health is our greatest asset. This value is not simply a trendy topic for us, but an attitude that we embody every day.

To keep this relevant, 20 years ago we brought in the eco-INSTITUT. It has the highest standard in the world for testing emissions and pollutants in products. It confirms to us that our products meet all the requirements for conscious living.

Our responsibility towards our customers drives us on to constantly invest in forward-looking technology. As such, we fulfil our promise to offer you the highest-quality floors on the market.

20 years ago, it wasn't about promoting the eco-INSTITUT seal, which was practically unknown to customers back then. Two decades ago, as today, we work with the eco-INSTITUT for one reason only: to keep you and our children's world healthy.

For your safety and ours

You come into close contact with your ter Hürne floor every day. Want your floor to be responsible and long-lasting for you? Do you need to feel safe?

So do we!

To ensure safety, we are building on third-party assessments.

These independent institutions are the warranty of our products:

Blue Angel

The Blue Angel identifies products that meet defined environmental and health criteria.

For more than 40 years, the Environmental Label of the Federal Government of Germany has been identifying environmentally friendly products and services. No other label in the non-food sector is as broadly based. Many everyday products bear the eco-label: for example, paints, furniture, detergents or recycled paper.

The Blue Angel is an impartial and economically independent voluntary product label. This is guaranteed by the Federal Ministry for the Environment as the label holder, the Federal Environment Agency for the scientific development of the award criteria, the "Environmental Label Jury" as the decision-making body, and RAL gGmbH as the independent certification organisation. .

That's good for you. Good for the environment.

Eco

eco-INTITUT was established as an independent, private enterprise in the 1980s. It is one of the most experienced German laboratories in the analysis of indoor air for pollutants. We spend up to 90% of our lives in enclosed rooms. The quality of the air contributes to a pleasant indoor climate.

eco-INSTITUT tests our floors

for the entire manufacturing process
for the ingredients we use
for harmful ingredients such as plasticizers, heavy metals and pesticides
for toxic gases that escape
for smells

The eco-label certifies products that are low in emissions. Ensuring better indoor air for you.

VOC

VOC stands for volatile organic compound. Our homes and interiors are better insulated than they used to be. This means that substances that are in materials and evaporate remain in the indoor air for longer. Some of these substances have been proved to be harmful to us.

Originating in France, the A+ to C label serves as an indication for the emissions of building products and interior furnishing materials.

The A+ label gives you and us a secure sense of good indoor air.

CARB 2

CARB is the acronym for the California Air Resources Board. It is a government commission of the US state of California. CARB 2 identifies compliance with strict formaldehyde emission limits.

All certified ter Hürne floors conform to this strict standard.

FloorScore®

FloorScore® is the internationally recognised label for the limitation of indoor air emissions.

This label is awarded only to products that do not release any harmful compounds.

CE

CE stands for Conformité Européenne (European Conformity). With the CE mark, we declare that our products conform to all applicable EU regulations. The EU regulations include, among other things, requirements on formaldehyde and VOC emissions as well as further product-specific requirements.

SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY

Because we need nature – and not the other way round

PEFC

PEFC can thought of as the inspection agency for our forests. It monitors the relationship between the logging of trees in forests and those that are growing back to replace them. Independent experts work for this organisation worldwide. They control the whole process chain – from the raw material to the floor covering.