While the market for real wood flooring recovered some lost ground in 2015, data published by the European Producers of Laminate Flooring (EPLF) association highlight the scale of the challenge from laminate flooring.
Members of the EPLF association sold 452 million m2 of laminate flooring last year, around 333 million m2 of which was in Europe, over four times the volume of real wood flooring consumption in the region.
Overall worldwide sales of EPLF members declined 3% in 2015. However the decline was almost all in Turkey due to one Turkish company leaving EPLF and anti-dumping proceedings by the Turkish Ministry of Econom
Laminates dominate European flooring market
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