Rows of wide glass frontages behind which are gleaming, four-wheeled design-objects viewed by hundreds of people every Sunday. With an area of more than 100,000 m², the Düsseldorf highway has developed a unique concentration of businesses from the automobile industry: whether Volkswagen, Honda or Toyota, all the noteworthy manufacturers show their models in prestigious showrooms. A wide range of automobile related service companies, such as DEKRA and ADAC, are also accommodated there.
 

The Düsseldorf Auto-mile gains another prestigious car dealership: Peugeot has built here its largest showroom in Germany.

The French car manufacturer, Peugeot, has now also built its largest showroom in Germany on the Auto-mile. Canadian maple on-edge parquet was laid in the 300 m² of track-way that goes through the car display areas. For the potential car-buyer, this serves as a circuit and viewing track through the colourful variety of showroom models offered by this French brand manufacturer.
The customer moves over the light maple track-way through a showroom that, due to its stark mix of steel-grey and glazed materials, strikingly accentuates the highlights of the colourful Peugeot cars.
 

Using Canadian maple on-edge parquet, an elegant track-way was laid through the Peugeot showroom.

And because, as is widely known, one highlight draws attention to another, Peugeot decided to have the Canadian maple on-edge parquet bonded on UZIN MK 100, the newly-developed 1-component MSP parquet adhesive from Uzin.

The viewing track made from light maple in contrast with the stark steel-grey mix of materials: here, the colourful cars receive especially striking emphasis.

Preliminaries
After appropriate testing and preparation by abrasion of the existing substrate (a heated anhydrite flow-screed), all in accordance with DIN 18365 and the BEB publication “Assessment and preparation of substrates”, the installation company, Bräuner, decided to bond direct to the surface with a one-component MSP parquet adhesive.
 

Bonding the parquet with UZIN MK 100, the newly-developed, one-component, parquet adhesive from Uzin.

The new type of solvent- and water- free, special parquet adhesive is not comparable with any of the previous Uzin parquet adhesives: as a one-component hybrid adhesive, it combines the powerful flexibility of a PU adhesive with the advantages of modern MS technology.

UZIN MK 100 is as if made for use under timbers that are prone to swelling, such as maple for example: setting from the slightest amount of surrounding moisture, it has no swelling effect at all on the parquet.

Setting from the slightest quantity of surrounding moisture, it has no swelling effect on the parquet. Therefore, this special parquet adhesive, certified as EC 1, is as if made for use under timbers prone to swelling, such as maple for example. Due to its very rapid initial bond, it also quickly develops suction-grab that prevents “floating” and displacement of the individual pieces of parquet.

Even with the usual loading from display cars in an auto-showroom, it is perfectly suitable. The reason: with its ideally flexible, but not too soft adhesive bond, it dissipates shear forces and so prevents the transfer of harmful stresses to the substrate.
Within seven working days – including surface preparation – under the direction of its parquet master-craftsman and project manager, Mr Königseder, and with a three-man installation team, the company Bräuner completed the parquet area.
With surface abrasion treatment, the first installation section could be started after only 72 hours. Therefore, it was possible to work quickly and efficiently over the surface.


The installation company, Bräuner from Marl
With a wide range of services, the company Bräuner offers complete support in the field of screeds, floor coverings and parquet.
Bräuner GmbH was founded in 1970 purely as a specialist in screeds. In 1990, it expanded its services into the professional execution of all flooring work. With a total of seven employed parquet floor-layers, they have also been available for parquet installation since 1997.
At present, Bräuner has a total of 36 employees.
Reference projects include the IMAX 3-D Film Theatre in Bochum, the Hypobank in Essen, the Ruhr-Forum in Castrop-Rauxel and the new-build of the Cologne Tower + Jolly Hotels in the media-park in Cologne.

Ulrike Juza
Uzin Utz Business Communications
Telephone +49 (0)731 4097-211
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E-Mail       ulrike.juza@uzin-utz.com