Australian environmental flooring company, Style Limited (SYP), announced an innovative plan to expand its production base to other parts of the world with a unique transportable factory that mirrors its China manufacturing base. The “mobile” manufacturing breakthrough follows a 12-month research program undertaken by Style in partnership with Flinders University’s Molecular Technologies Research Centre in Adelaide, South Australia and partly funded by the Australian Federal Government. The result is the development of a “transportable strand woven factory” that can be installed to existing wood finishing factories anywhere in the world to manufacture strand woven products using locally available soft wood species such as Poplar in the United States or Blue Gum in Australia.
Style’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr Peter Torreele, said the partnership with Flinders University has now developed a model for an exportable and economically viable manufacturing cell to produce strand woven products outside of China, by designing an international block factory with a similar cost base to China due to advanced automation. “The model has been designed to be an “add-on module” to existing wood flooring finishing factories anywhere in the world and we are in discussions with wood flooring manufacturers to form strategic partnerships for licensing of this patented technology, thereby creating a new revenue stream for the Company,” Mr Torreele said.
Style Limited (SYP) is an Australian listed company with headquarters in Melbourne, its manufacturing base in the Zhejiang province in China and sales offices in the USA, Europe, China, Australia and South Africa. Style was founded in 2004 and specializes in the Research and Development, manufacturing and marketing of “green” flooring products based on its strand woven technologies.
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