Abstract: The floor or wall panel has a substrate and a top layer applied thereon. The substrate consists mainly of a mineral material. The panel is provided, on at least two opposite edges, with coupling means that allow two such panels to be coupled together at the respective edges, wherein in the coupled state there is locking in the vertical direction perpendicular to the plane of the coupled panels and in the horizontal direction perpendicular to the coupled edges and in the plane of the coupled panels.

Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a panel. The method may involve supplying a substrate having an upper side. A layer may be provided onto the upper side. The upper side may be irradiated so as to cure at least a part of the layer by irradiation, hence forming the panel. The layer may include a liquid coating on substantially the entire upper side and a substance which is digitally printed locally on the upper side. The substance and the liquid coating may cooperate such that either (1) the coating and the substance react with each other, whereas the substance is a liquid that is printed on the upper side before the coating is applied and wherein the substance and the coating have different surface tensions, or (2) the coating is non-curable or only curable to a limited extent by the irradiation, whereas the substance makes the coating curable by the irradiation at locations where they meet each other.

Abstract: A method may be provided for manufacturing a panel of the type having a support and a top layer. The top layer may have a printed motif and a wear layer disposed above the motif. The wear layer may be fabricated from PVC. The top layer may include an inkjet receiving layer that has less than 10% by weight of water absorbing substances. The method may involve providing a printing substrate, providing the printing substrate with the inkjet receiving layer, and digitally inkjet printing the motif with a set of water based inks. The digital inkjet printing may involve one or more printing operations. Each of the printing operations may be dedicated to print one color. The method may involve one or more ink drying steps. Each of the drying steps may be performed after performing one or more respective printing operations.

Abstract: A board including a plurality of layers having a different composition. At least one of the layers is based on MgO and MgChloride and/or at least one of said layers is based on MgO and MgSulphate. Methods for manufacturing such boards, and methods for manufacturing coated panels include such board.

Abstract: Sheet material includes at least two layers of material, wherein a first layer of material forms more than half the thickness of the sheet material and is mainly built up from wood particles glued by means of a first binder and pressed. The first binder is thermosetting, wherein the second layer of material is present on the surface of the aforementioned sheet material and is mainly built up from particulate particles glued by a second binder and pressed. The second binder is thermoplastic and/or elastomeric.

Abstract: A composition may be provided for use in a method for manufacturing a paper layer printable with an inkjet printer. The paper layer may be used as a decor paper in a laminate panel. At least one side of the paper layer may be coated with an inkjet receiver coating in at least two partial steps. A first layer of a first composition may be applied, and subsequently a second layer of a second composition may be applied. The first and the second compositions may at least include a binder. Each of the first and the second compositions may include a liquid substance being a water-based suspension of at least the binder. A dry matter content of the first composition may be of 8 to 25 percent by weight of the liquid substance, and/or a dry matter content of the second composition may be of 4 to 20 percent by weight of the liquid substance.

Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a printed décor sheet. The method may involve providing a first printable or printed substrate. At least one predetermined operation may be performed on the substrate, wherein the predetermined operation causes the deformation of the substrate in at least one direction. The deformation may be measured to obtain at least one deformation parameter. A first master image may be provided. An image processing operation may be performed on the first master image to obtain a second master image. The second master image may be printed on a second printable substrate to obtain the décor sheet. The image processing operation may involve at least modifying the first master image on the basis of the at least one deformation parameter.

Abstract: A panel may include at a substrate and a top layer provided on the substrate. The top layer may include a motif and a transparent or translucent synthetic material layer provided above the motif. The motif may be a print formed by digitally applying inks on the substrate with the intermediary of one or more primer layers extending underneath the print. The transparent or translucent synthetic material layer may include polypropylene and have a thickness of less than 1 millimeter.

Abstract: A method is provided for printing onto a décor paper and/or foil that may be suitable for being used in decorative panels. The method may involve providing a printable substrate. A pattern may be printed on the printable substrate by ejecting droplets of ink by means of at least one inkjet printing head that may include one or more nozzles. After a first predetermined time period, the printing operation may be interrupted for a second predetermined time period and/or a controlling frequency of the printhead may be changed for a second predetermined time period.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a panel having a substrate, a decorative layer that includes a digital print, and a translucent or transparent wear layer. The method may involve providing the substrate with the digital print by jetting one or more inks from a set of inks using a digital inkjet printer. The ink may include a binding agent and/or a primer or an adhesion layer may be provided between the digital print and the translucent or transparent wear layer. The panel may be a supple panel.

Abstract: A set of parts for installing a floor covering includes a plurality of floor panels and a plurality of profiles. The floor panels are provided for being installed over an underlying surface. In an installed condition, the bottom major surface of each of the floor panels is elevated from the underlying surface by means of the corresponding profile. The floor panels at least at their top major surface include a decor formed by a print, a wood veneer or a stone veneer.

Abstract: A decor paper or foil for application to panel shaped substrates may include a base layer, an inkjet receiving surface, and a digitally printed pattern. The digitally printed pattern may be obtained by printing with a single-pass printer. The digitally printed pattern may include a matrix of a plurality of printed ink dots per inch. The matrix, in the width direction of the paper or foil, may be uniformly made up with uniformly sized printed ink dots, with the exception of a minority of an area of the printed pattern, in which the matrix may be modified. The modification may include the presence of one or more printed dots in the matrix which have a smaller or a larger dot size.

Abstract: A decorative panel includes a substrate and a wear layer. The wear layer has a varnish coat that includes hard particles over its entire thickness. The hard particles have an S50 particle size determined from the cumulative particle size distribution according to volume measured by laser diffraction as the particle size at which 50% of the hard particles are smaller than this particle size S50. The varnish coat has a thickness T that is between 0.5*S50 and 2*S50.

Abstract: A sheet includes a support layer and a coating layer on a side of the support layer. The coating layer is partially cured. The coating layer has carbon-carbon double bonds. The relative amount of carbon-carbon double bonds is higher at the surface of the coating layer than at the contact surface of the coating layer with the support layer. Methods are disclosed to manufacture such sheets; and to produce a decorative panel using such sheets.

Abstract: A thermosetting resin composition comprising a melamine-based resin and one or more modifiers, wherein the total content of said modifiers is below 10%, preferably below 7%, more preferably below 5%, even more preferably below 3% by weight of the thermosetting resin.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a panel having a substrate, a decorative layer that includes a digital print, and a translucent or transparent wear layer. The method may involve providing the substrate with the digital print by jetting one or more inks from a set of inks using a digital inkjet printer. The ink may include a binding agent and/or a primer or an adhesion layer may be provided between the digital print and the translucent or transparent wear layer. The digital print may be performed directly on the substrate.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a decorative substrate for decorative panels may involve providing a master image. The master image may be printed on a first printable substrate using an inkjet printer, thereby obtaining a first decorative substrate. A printing defect may be evaluated in the first decorative substrate. An error correction operation may be performed on the master image on the basis of the evaluation. A corrected master image may be printed on a second printable substrate to obtain a second decorative substrate. The error correction operation may involve adding an intentional defect to the corrected master image.

Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a product having a three dimensional surface layer. The method may involve applying a water based resin on an underlying surface of the product. The water based resin may be at least in part thermocurable. A UV-curable liquid may be provided onto at least one portion of the water based resin, when the water based resin is liquid or partially cured. The water based resin may be cured at least by heating. The UV-curable liquid may be optionally UV cured. The UV-curable liquid may be optionally removed. The surface layer and the underlaying surface may be optionally pressed together by a pressing device.

Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a printed décor sheet. The method may involve providing a first printable or printed substrate. At least one predetermined operation may be performed on the substrate, wherein the predetermined operation causes the deformation of the substrate in at least one direction. The deformation may be measured to obtain at least one deformation parameter. A first master image may be provided. An image processing operation may be performed on the first master image to obtain a second master image. The second master image may be printed on a second printable substrate to obtain the décor sheet. The image processing operation may involve at least modifying the first master image on the basis of the at least one deformation parameter.

Abstract: A set of inks is provided for inkjet printing on a paper substrate, for example a paper sheet, for being used in laminated panel, preferably a floor, a wall, or furniture panels. The inks may be pigmented inks. The set of inks may include a cyan ink, a yellow ink, at least a red ink, and at least a black ink.