Meet Schönox
Meet Schönox – And Never Think About Subfloors the Same Way
Our mission: To equip every flooring professional for success
Greetings from your team at Schönox. We invite you to learn more about us in hopes you will give us the opportunity to learn more about you and how we can work together. Let’s get started.
Our mission is to equip every flooring professional for success. When that happens, everyone involved in a flooring project enjoys the benefits. Providing project solutions and plans. Renovating tough subfloors. Meeting challenging deadlines. Maximizing contractor time. Making subfloors lasting generations. Delighting project owners. Schönox provides these and so many more benefits.
The Schönox mission is personal for our sales, technical, and support team members – we know the challenges and opportunities flooring pros face each day because we’re in the field each day with them. Let’s work together and find success in every subfloor and project.
Our culture: We’re Ön It
Over time, a culture developed within Schönox noticed by anyone interacting with our team and product solutions. Before that culture had a name, it was present in everything we did. When someone said, the Schönox team is Ön It, it stuck. We’ve rallied around that phrase ever since, paying it off each day with a Hands Ön approach to everything we do.
Our work enables us to have a positive impact on every single flooring project where Schönox is used. It’s a great place to be in the industry. We provide solutions to the most challenging and the everyday subfloor issues with a comprehensive line of products and the team to support them. Need answers, product solutions, support, responsiveness, teamwork? We’re Ön It.
It’s a culture rapidly attracting professionals joining our company and partners choosing Schönox for their projects. We’ve got momentum and the positive impacts on the flooring industry to show for it. That’s why we’ve adopted one more phrase levering our Schönox name and describing our customers’ decisions to partner with us, The Switch is Ön
Our background: Short and Long Histories Combined
Entrepreneurial Spirit Backed by a Century+ of R&D
After 120 years of operations in dozens of countries, Schönox GmbH, headquartered in Rosendahl, Germany, partnered with Thomas Trissl, forming High Performance Subfloors (HPS) to introduce and support Schönox in the North American market. The entrepreneurial venture began in 2011 at the ground floor with a distinct advantage – products with more than a century of continuous development poured into each.
We set out to revolutionize the subfloor industry, making Schönox solutions available across North America. We equipped flooring pros to do things they had never done. They renovated rather than demolished subfloors. Projects with the Need for Speed™ found the right partner. Innovation became an integral part of the subfloor process. Flooring pros found project opportunities in the subfloor, using Schönox to delight customers all along the way.
In just over a decade, Schönox HPS North America developed an outstanding sales and technical team, extensive distribution partners and product logistics, brand name recognition, continuous marketing activation through advertising and events, admission to the largest buying groups, and a brand-loyal customer base – all put in place from coast to coast. Along the way, we’ve built lifelong friendships, and the Schönox brand became the most trusted subfloor resource. Today, Schönox is in the field, everywhere, gaining trust, project by project, customer by customer.
Meet Our Team
As a company, we are defined as much by our people and our values as we are by our products and technology. We’re natural-born problem solvers, backed by over 130 years of German ingenuity and driven forward by entrepreneurial American grit. Our passion for science and technology, combined with our expertise in construction, allows us to build better floors, better spaces, better relationships and better communities.
Our customers know us for our state-of-the-art products, but they remember us for answering the phone at five a.m., for showing up on a job site three states away and for never stopping short of perfection. When it comes to conquering critical, damaged and uneven substrates, Schönox is ÖN IT.
over 130 years of flooring experience
We’re glad you asked. Schönox provides solutions to challenging subfloor issues with a full line of primers, repair mortars, floor leveling compounds, and adhesives. Put simply, we solve subfloor problems.
Good Decisions depend on the information available to you. Whether you are renovating a room, a wing, or a facility, you want to know that your product selections are environmentally responsible and will perform well. Schönox produces primers, repair products, floor leveling compounds, adhesives, and waterproofing materials that can successfully take damaged, uneven subfloors through to finished floors ready for use. Allow us to brief you on the key aspects of Schönox that will inform your decisions and provide you with a better way to complete subfloor projects.
Schönox has been certified according to Quality standard ISO 9001 since 1995 and according to Environmental management standard ISO 14001 since 1999. In addition it supports the initiative Responsible Care of Chemical Industry (www.vci.de).
Quality and product stewardship
Our assortment of goods stands out due to innovative system solutions, at the same time taking into account ecological aspects. Being a member of the Gemeinschaft Emissionskontrollierte Verlegewerkstoffe (GEV), we offer a complete array of very low-emission glues according to EMICODE EC1 (www.emicode.com). For many years we have been generating more than 90% of our turnover in the case of floor glues with very low-emission products. Furthermore, all of the products manufactured by Schönox are low-chromate according to EU-RL 2003/53/EC.
Raw materials
Product stewardship begins with purchasing raw materials. In agreement with the Responsible Care and Product Stewardship initiatives, a system for avoiding and eliminating critical substances was implemented in AkzoNobel in 1996. Within the framework of suppliers’ assessment, the quality, environment and security standards of our suppliers undergo annual monitoring in order to minimise possible risks in advance.
Environmental protection
Since the implementation of our integrated management systems, we have recorded major success in respect of environmental protection. Today, product-integrated environmental protection and a more and more energy-efficient production process take centre stage in our activities. Environmental protection in Schönox focuses on:
- preventive environmental protection;
- saving resources (raw materials, energy and water); and
- waste avoidance.
New – Now and Tomorrow
Every day, we are doing research in the field and in our laboratories developing better products, improved solutions, and new ideas. Our driving course is to never stand still with innovation.
Shared Experiences
We are in the field every day working with the people who make flooring projects happen. Our objective is to support our customers from initial project consultation through the execution of the work and on to the next opportunity working together step by step with our customers.
Transparent Products and Practices
We want our customers, associates, and stakeholders to have all of the information that they need about our products and operations to make informed decisions. A clear view of what we do and how we do it is at the heart of what we offer.
Hands On
Our hands get dirty. We want to be at the job site making sure customers have what they need, following up on details, and helping to solve problems.
Strong Values that get Strong Results
At the end of the day, we show who we are by what we do and accomplish. And that value depends on the results that are achieved for the customer.
Green Beyond Words
State of the art these days should mean that products are environmentally responsible and sustainable. The public is leery of claims. We create products that cut through the rhetoric and deliver on environmental promises.
Agility with Purpose
Customers need speed, but they also need that speed to produce results. We react to the needs of customers quickly and with acute focus.
Access for Impact
We ensure that customers have the information that they need and the ability to impact the company with their feedback. Customers have the ability to consult with associates that have varied competencies and skill sets throughout the organization.
Listening. Learning. Teaching.
We learn from and assist customers by visiting with them, looking at their job sites, and hearing about their challenges first hand. We want to share our knowledge about making projects successful, doing more in less time and doing it better.
An Enduring Legacy
Our products are made to last. We fix problems. We provide solutions. And we do all of this with the understanding that every project completed, every problem solved, and every solution provided builds a legacy in our brand name. That legacy is more important to us than any short term gain.
NETWORK AFFILIATIONS
We believe continuing education is the cornerstone to understanding new technology and techniques to better help with your next project.