Architects, designers and celebrities around the world rely on the design expertise and quality of mafi natural wood floors.

OVER 100 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

The Fillafer family has been using wood as a raw material since the end of the First World War. At that time, a sawmill was operated on the family‘s own land in Schneegattern, Upper Austria. The largest contiguous forest area in Central Europe, the Kobernauserwald, provided the perfect starting point. The family took its first steps towards design with the production of wooden ceilings and beams and their unique, hand-carved decorations. Over the years, the family business perfected wood processing and integration into people‘s living spaces. In 1992, the Fillafer family‘s focus shifted from the ceiling to the floor, the basis of living. Since then, the family has been producing both traditional and innovative natural wood floors under the name mafi. With the existing infrastructure and the know-how accumulated over decades, the foundation for sustainable success was laid.

NATURE AS DESIGNER

Sustainability and resource efficiency are part of the mafi philosophy and permeate all areas of the company. For example, mafi sources its wood almost exclusively from Central Europe and, where possible, only from sustainably managed forests. In doing so, mafi uses the entire tree. However, every tree is unique and every slat made from it is one of a kind. This means that no two floors are the same and nothing is produced to stock. The customer receives his own custom-made work of art - mafi : walk on art. Different widths and lengths, or even individual product lines, reflect this basic philosophy. Any wood waste is recycled in the internal pellet production.

mafi natural wood floors was the first company to do without any form of lacquer or chemical additives in the production of wooden floors. The special oils from mafi penetrate deep into the wear layer of the wooden floor, harden and make the wood resistant from the inside out without forming a film layer. Both the oils and the soaps used consist entirely of natural substances. Even the individual layers of the planks are glued together with white glue made from water, charcoal, lime and acetic

acid. The sustainable philosophy and the natural use of wood as a resource earned mafi the Energy Globe Award in the Earth category in 2011.

The mafi Vulcano floors are a real, but above all sustainable alternative to tropical wood. A complex heat treatment gives the wood a dark coloring in warm brown tones. No chemical additives are used during the heat treatment. In this process, only heat, wind and water are used, thereby reducing swelling and shrinkage behavior as well as internal stresses.

NEVER ORDINARY, UNIQUE - MAFI AS A TRENDSETTER

In addition to “traditional natural wood floors”, new technologies and designs are developed every year, many of which have already paved the way for international trends. For example, natural knots and cracks in the wood are not negated but celebrated through color cementing. Hand-planed indentations or the individual color design of the cracks are just the tip of the artisanal iceberg. The 3D surfaces of the Fresco Edition can be enjoyed above all barefoot. The raised top layer creates a light yet unforgettable massage effect. The decors of the Carving Edition are also unique, with the designs extending over several slats to create a more extensive appearance. With the mafi Domino, the range is rounded off with an extremely resistant end-grain floor, also especially for contract areas.

mafi 360° - DETAILS THAT MATTER

With the 360° range, mafi provides natural wood solutions that are precisely tailored to the floor and at the same time optimize the resource yield of the important raw material wood. Whether walls, ceilings, stairs or skirting boards, even table tops or window sills - everything is produced from a single source and manufactured to match. Details that have made mafi an international name.

INTERNATIONALLY SUCCESSFUL

With around 80 employees, mafi still produces with more people than machines and is celebrating international success. In addition to Europe, people in the USA, Japan, UAE, Australia and Mexico live and work on mafi natural wood floors. In total, mafi exports to around 40 countries around the world. Its customers include celebrities such as Claudia Schiffer, Justin Timberlake, Adele, Sir Elton John and Giorgio Armani as well as star architect Norman Foster. International giants such as Facebook, Google, Hyatt and Salesforce rely on mafi for their office buildings, as do countless private customers.