People & Identity
A fitting floor for every building
Coesfeld, January 2012 – Individual interior design starts on the floor. With the “Parador Identity” laminate flooring range from the premium manufacturer Parador, floor design now knows no limits: thanks to an innovative printing process developed by Parador, any given motif can be depicted on the floor in a photo realistic way and in art print quality. Parador Identity scores highly not only with creative freedom, however. Laminate flooring also impresses with top values in terms of energy efficiency and durability, thus making it suitable for contract projects. A new sales team will help architects and planners when it comes to making customised floors.
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Products & Development
The Miracle of Güssing
“When can we see the power station?” The lady from Nicaragua hops impatiently from one foot to the other. She is just as assiduously ignored by her well-versed guide as her colleagues. Reinhard Koch, Managing Director of the European Centre for Renewable Energy (EEE), is used to impatient visitors: “There, where you are standing now, I was talking to the prime minister of the Cook Islands just last week – and the week before with a couple of people from MIT.” Reinhard Koch gives another winning smile to the small group of inquisitive female energy specialists from Central America, whom he is guiding through his institute
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Living Performance
Tree for Tree
For every assortment of the new Eco Balance flooring range that is sold, Parador will plant one tree together with Plant-for-the-Planet. A visit to the house of Felix Finkbeiner, the 13-year old founder of the student initiative. »The climate is heating up, the glaciers are melting and the sea level is rising. Our future is being destroyed and the politicians simply sit around and talk about it? There is no way we can leave our future just to the grown-ups!« Meeting Felix Finkbeiner on a rainy Saturday afternoon in his parents' little self-built wood cabin by the Staffelsee in Bavaria, I see a serious young man with a winning smile, wellington boots and a sister with hornet problems: right above the rickety camping table, invitingly set for tea and cakes, a swarm has built its nest.
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Products & Development
Trees are the jokers of our era
Coesfeld, November 2011 – To mark the occasion of the market launch of Eco Balance, Volkmar Halbe, chairman of the Parador management board, spoke with 13-year old Felix Finkbeiner, the founder and world president of the children's foundation Plant-for-the-Planet, about the power of good ideas.
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Products & Development
Parador decorates walls with tangibly beautiful panels
With sophisticated solutions for wall and ceiling decoration, the design trendsetter Parador picks up the current tendency towards light colours. The new decor panels also score well with 3D textures that allow an interesting play of light to unfold. Also new: Clickboard panels with antique origins.
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Products & Development
The "most creative" of all floors: laminate!
Nothing is impossible goes the saying every two years from the design-smith Parador. An extensive spectrum of decors, surfaces and formats, authentic reinterpretations of high quality timbers and imaginative graphic motifs round off the range. Particularly exciting are designs resulting from playing with unusual materials.
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