Ms Erja Heiskanen, MSc (Tech) has been appointed as logistics director in Karelia-Upofloor's hardwood flooring business. She brings to the Group her many years of experience garnered in logistics and delivery management duties with ABB Oy, Motors.
The logistics director reports to the Group CEO and serves on the management team of the hardwood flooring business. As head of the logistics unit in the hardwood flooring business, she is responsible for the development and control of the order-delivery chain. The logistics unit comprises the business functions of customer service, production control and logistics.
Karelia-Upofloor Oy is Finland's leading manufacturer of floorings: hardwood floorings and resilient floorings. As a parquet flooring manufacturer we are one of Europe's largest. As a producer of resilient floorings the firm is an important company in the Nordic countries and the only Finnish manufacturer.

More than forty years since it was first set up, Stile Pavimenti Legno (Città di Castello, Perugia - Italy) has achieved a major goal: huge investments in new technology and automation to give the company one of the most efficient and modern two-layer prefinished wooden flooring production plants possible. All told, the new production line is more than 200 metres long, offering initial output capacity of 2000 m2 of parquet a day.
However the real cause for pride is almost certainly the automatic warehouse (see photo of the exterior) that adds machines to the shelving: these move along special tracks to deposit or pick up the required materials. And all run by a dedicated software that co-ordinates all movement to optimise goods handling operations.
The advantage is that many storing and delivery operations are now greatly speeded up, plus it becomes much easier for warehouse staff to prepare shipments, since they receive materials in the picking bays rather than having to go on a fork-lift truck to pick them up from the shelves, as was the case in the past. Another important aspect of the new system is that stock management can now be kept under control at all times, meaning every square inch can be exploited.

Old floor, the Italian parquet manufacturer that loves producing top quality wooden flooring using hand-finished noble timbers, presents Thimos: the metamorphous of wood.
Thanks to the manual application of a reactant used since the 1800s, an oil-based product consisting of natural soils and various plant extracts (including safflower oil, castor oil, coconut oil, hemp and sunflower oils) the strips gain a new look: the natural tannins in the wood react with these substances to get an aged look in a matter of minutes.

As of this year, Cadorin will be providing its clients with a new instrument guaranteed to win the loyalty of the final consumer: the Cadorin Quality Certificate: an elegant pocket-sized holder that contains data product sheets and all the most useful information required for the care and maintenance of Cadorin planking and parquet.
Leaving final customers this “little gift” at the end of the sale ensures that he or she will remember just who you are and the precious and unique product that you sold.
This intelligent idea turns into an element of added value for the dealer, providing another way to establish a transparent and direct relationship and strengthen loyalty with the customer.