Abstract: A method to produce a board element, including extruding a substrate including one or more substrate layers through a die, laminating a thermoplastic film to a first surface of the substrate after the substrate has passed the die, printing by a digital printing device a décor on a surface of the thermoplastic film when the thermoplastic film has been laminated to the substrate, and applying a coating directly on the printed thermoplastic film after printing. Also, a panel, such as a building panel, including a mechanical locking system.

Abstract: A method of assembling resilient floorboards is disclosed that includes the step of bending an edge of a floorboard during the assembling. The bending reduces the force required for connection of the edge to another edge of a juxtaposed floorboard. The floorboards may be provided with a mechanical locking system for vertical and horizontal locking of two adjacent floorboards.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a board element. The process includes providing a substrate including a polymer-based material and a plurality of cavities in a rear side, arranging a printing pattern on a front side of the substrate, and coordinating a position of the printing pattern with a location of the cavities.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a board element including a plurality of cavities in a rear side thereof. The process includes displacing a substrate including a thermoplastic material in a feeding direction towards a pressing area of an impression device including a plurality of protruding impression elements and creating the cavities in a rear side of the substrate by impressing a substrate portion in the pressing area by the impression device, thereby obtaining the board element. An upstream thickness of the substrate upstream of the impression device exceeds a gap height of the pressing area during at least a part of an impression cycle.

Abstract: A mineral-based floor panel including a mineral-based core, wherein the panel includes at least one groove. The at least one groove may be provided in a rear side of the panel. There is also disclosed other such mineral-based panels, such as a building panel, a wall panel, a ceiling panel or a furniture panel. There is also disclosed a method for forming such grooves in a mineral-based panel. Furthermore, there is disclosed a mineral-based panel including a mineral-based core and polymer-based lower layer(s) attached to the core. A locking system of the panel includes a strip extending horizontally beyond an upper portion of the panel, wherein at least a horizontal portion of the strip is entirely formed in the polymer-based lower layer(s).

Abstract: A set of building panels including a locking device for locking a first edge portion of a first panel to a second edge portion of a second panel. The locking device includes a locking element extending upwards from a lower strip provided in the first edge portion, and a locking member extending downwards from an upper strip provided in the second edge portion, wherein the locking element and the locking member are configured to cooperate for horizontal locking. The locking device further includes a protrusion and a groove configured to cooperate for vertical locking. A perpendicularly arranged fourth edge portion of the second panel includes a tongue configured to cooperate with a tongue groove of an adjacent panel for vertical locking. The protrusion extends inwardly of the tongue in a direction along the second edge portion.

Abstract: A method of producing a veneered element, including providing a substrate, applying a sub-layer on a surface of the substrate, applying a veneer layer on the sub-layer, and applying pressure to the veneer layer and/or the substrate, such that at least a portion of the sub-layer permeates through the veneer layer. Also, such a veneered element.

Abstract: A method of assembling resilient floorboards is disclosed that includes the step of bending an edge of a floorboard during the assembling. The bending reduces the force required for connection of the edge to another edge of a juxtaposed floorboard. The floorboards may be provided with a mechanical locking system for vertical and horizontal locking of two adjacent floorboards.

Abstract: A mineral-based floor panel including a mineral-based core, wherein the panel includes at least one groove. The at least one groove may be provided in a rear side of the panel. There is also disclosed other such mineral-based panels, such as a building panel, a wall panel, a ceiling panel or a furniture panel. There is also disclosed a method for forming such grooves in a mineral-based panel. Furthermore, there is disclosed a mineral-based panel including a mineral-based core and polymer-based lower layer(s) attached to the core. A locking system of the panel includes a strip extending horizontally beyond an upper portion of the panel, wherein at least a horizontal portion of the strip is entirely formed in the polymer-based lower layer(s).

Abstract: A method of producing a veneered element, including providing a substrate, applying a sub-layer on a surface of the substrate, applying a veneer layer on the sub-layer, and applying pressure to the veneer layer and/or the substrate, such that at least a portion of the sub-layer permeates through the veneer layer. Also, such a veneered element.

Abstract: A method to produce a laminated substrate with an embossed structure, including: providing a polymer based film printed by at least a first gravure cylinder forming a first pattern and a second gravure cylinder forming a second pattern, wherein a circumference of the second gravure cylinder exceeds a circumference of the first gravure cylinder, applying the polymer based film on a substrate including a polymer based material, pressing said polymer based film to the substrate, thereby forming a laminated substrate, and embossing the laminated substrate by an embossing device such that the laminated substrate obtains an embossed structure, wherein a perimeter of the embossing device corresponds to the circumference of the first gravure cylinder or to the circumference of the second gravure cylinder.

Abstract: A method to produce a panel with an embossed structure, including forming a substrate by a continuous process, wherein the substrate includes a polymer based material, providing a printed polymer based film, applying the printed polymer based film on the substrate, the printed polymer based film being continuously applied on the substrate, pressing the printed polymer based film to the substrate, thereby forming a laminated substrate, and embossing the laminated substrate by an embossing device having a perimeter, such that the laminated substrate obtains an embossed structure, dividing the laminated substrate into panels, each panel having a length and a width, and wherein the perimeter of the embossing device divided by the length of said panel is a non-integer.

Abstract: A method to produce a laminated substrate with an embossed structure, including: providing a polymer based film printed by at least one gravure cylinder, applying the polymer based film on a substrate including a polymer based material, pressing said polymer based film to the substrate, thereby forming a laminated substrate, and embossing the laminated substrate by an embossing device such that the laminated substrate obtains an embossed structure, wherein a circumference of said at least one gravure cylinder exceeds a perimeter of the embossing device, and wherein the circumference of said at least one gravure cylinder divided by the perimeter of the embossing device substantially corresponds to an integer.

Abstract: A method of assembling resilient floorboards is disclosed that includes the step of bending an edge of a floorboard during the assembling. The bending reduces the force required for connection of the edge to another edge of a juxtaposed floorboard. The floorboards may be provided with a mechanical locking system for vertical and horizontal locking of two adjacent floorboards.

Abstract: Floor panels which are provided with a mechanical locking system including an extruded flexible tongue in a sidewardly open groove which during a vertical folding motion is bent horizontally. A tongue adapted for being received in a sidewardly open groove of a floor panel, wherein the tongue, which is an elongated extruded section, when received in the groove is bendable in a plane substantially parallel with a front face of the floor panel, such that the tongue is at least partially resiliently displaceable inside said sidewardly open groove in said plane during locking of the floor panel with another floor panel and wherein a vertical protrusion, serving as a friction connection between the tongue and the groove, is arranged at an upper or lower part of the tongue, wherein a total width of tongue varies in a longitudinal direction of the tongue.

Abstract: A set of building panels, each building panel has a decorative surface and a mechanical locking device for horizontal and vertical locking of similar or essentially identical building panels in an assembled position. An upper edge portion of a side edge of a first building panel and an upper edge portion of a side edge of a second building panel are, in the assembled position, juxtaposed to form a joint seal. The mechanical locking device includes a locking surface at the upper edge portion of the side edge of the first building panel configured to cooperate with a locking surface at the upper edge portion of the side edge of the second building panel. The two locking surfaces are configured to lock the side edge of the first building panel and the side edge of the second building panel in a direction parallel to the extension of the decorative surface.

Abstract: A method of producing a veneered element, including providing a substrate, applying a sub-layer on a surface of the substrate, applying a veneer layer on the sub-layer, and applying pressure to the veneer layer and/or the substrate, such that at least a portion of the sub-layer permeates through the veneer layer. Also, such a veneered element.

Abstract: A method of assembling resilient floorboards is disclosed that includes the step of bending an edge of a floorboard during the assembling. The bending reduces the force required for connection of the edge to another edge of a juxtaposed floorboard. The floorboards may be provided with a mechanical locking system for vertical and horizontal locking of two adjacent floorboards.

Abstract: A mineral-based floor panel including a mineral-based core, wherein the panel includes at least one groove. The at least one groove may be provided in a rear side of the panel. There is also disclosed other such mineral-based panels, such as a building panel, a wall panel, a ceiling panel or a furniture panel. There is also disclosed a method for forming such grooves in a mineral-based panel. Furthermore, there is disclosed a mineral-based panel including a mineral-based core and polymer-based lower layer(s) attached to the core. A locking system of the panel includes a strip extending horizontally beyond an upper portion of the panel, wherein at least a horizontal portion of the strip is entirely formed in the polymer-based lower layer(s).

Abstract: A mineral-based panel including a mineral-based core and at least one groove. The at least one groove may be provided in a rear side of the panel. The mineral-based panels may be floor panel, a building panel, a wall panel, a ceiling panel or a furniture panel. A method for forming such grooves in a mineral-based panel. Furthermore, a mineral-based panel including a mineral-based core and polymer-based lower layer(s) attached to the core. A locking system of the panel includes a strip extending horizontally beyond an upper portion of the panel, and a horizontal portion of the strip is entirely formed in the polymer-based lower layer(s).