According to the recent annual survey conducted by the European Federation of the Parquet Industry (FEP), parquet remains a ‘desired’ flooring product in Europe. In comparison with 2005, production as well as consumption rose further.
The total production in FEP territory grew by 2.02%, peaking at a record volume of 98 million m2. Decisive in this result was this time the production surge in Germany (+10.37%) and Poland (+13.54%), with also a positive trend in the Netherlands (+14.36%) and Romania (+146.15%). FEP: “The full impact of new capacities installed in certain countries and the out-sourcing of the production processes in some cases is now becoming clearly visible in the figures as well.”
Though lamparquet is further loosing ground (presently at 2%), solid and mosaic show a growing tendency with a respective market share of 16% and 3%. In spite of a light relapse, multilayer remains the absolute market leader with 79%. As regards absolute production figures, Sweden is still the leader with 17,62%, now followed by Poland with 13,28%, just edging Germany with 13,18%.
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Production
2006/2005 |
Consumption
2006/2005 |
| AT |
-6,78% |
1,31% |
| BE |
2,60% |
10,61% |
| CH |
-4,19% |
9,65% |
| CZ |
0% |
132,75% |
| DE |
10,37% |
-0,11% |
| ES |
0% |
7,03% |
| FR |
1,26% |
7,05% |
| HU |
3,51% |
1,65% |
| IT |
0% |
1,52% |
| NL |
14,36% |
-0,85% |
| PL |
13,54% |
21,32% |
| RO |
146,15% |
5,00% |
| SK |
-8,33% |
1,47% |
| DK/FIN/NO |
-6,82% |
0,81% |
| SE |
-9,21% |
2,50% |
| FEP |
2,02% |
5,55% |
Consumption increased a sound 5.55%. Especially encouraging, according to FEP, were the figures from the Eastern markets in general, and Belgium (+10.61%), Switzerland (+9.65%), Spain (+7.03%) and France (+7.05%). The growth was to a somewhat lesser extent also apparent in Austria (+1.31%), Italy (+1.52%) and the Scandinavian bloc (+0.81%). Stagnation was recorded on the German market (-0.11%) and a slight drop in the Netherlands (-0.85%). Consumption has clearly taken the hurdle of 100 million m2, attaining a new record figure of close to 108 million m2 in the FEP member area.
Taking into account also the non-FEP member states, the total parquet flooring market in the EU and EFTA together could presently well be in excess of 115 million m2, says FEP. In analogy to past years, Germany remains the most important European parquet market with an overall share of 19%. Spain and Italy occupy ranks 2 and 3, in front of France. FEP estimates that the actual market share of parquet in the total European flooring market is presently close to 6%.
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