In today's market there is a proliferation of products and services available, from structural to decorative, and everything in between. As the marketplace becomes increasingly global, we're seeing more and more imported product enter New Zealand, but often without the product quality and service guarantees expected by the New Zealand market.

Recent research conducted by EBOSS, supplier of New Zealand's largest architectural product information database, demonstrated that product performance and meaningful warranties are key for both specifiers and builders.

Laminex New Zealand is proud of their long-standing history as a New Zealand business, and as part of the Fletcher Building group. Laminex NZ warrants all their products, from the seven year limited warranty of their Formica and Laminex branded laminates, through to the 50 year warranty of structural products such as Trade Essentials Strandfloor. Laminex NZ stands by all their products, providing detailed installation and fabrication instructions as well as full care and maintenance guidelines for end users, to ensure that the products really do stand the test of time. These, along with warranties for all of the products, are readily available on the Laminex NZ website. Laminex NZ's YouTube channel provides a range of informative videos to assist with installation, cleaning and maintenance. To support this, Laminex NZ has a team of four full time technical managers who are on hand to help with specification, installation and after care queries. Together they have over 110 years industry experience across sales, support and fabrication.

In addition to this, where required, Laminex NZ's products carry BRANZ industry appraisals so specifiers can be assured that the products perform to the New Zealand Building Code.

Laminex NZ is also upfront and transparent about the ingredients of their products with several, such as Strandfloor, StrandfloorH3.1, Strandboard and Laminex Solid Surface being recognised as 'Red List Free' in the Declare database, which is the approved product list for the Living Building Challenge. A full matrix of Laminex NZ's products and their sustainability criteria can be found in the sustainability section of the Laminex New Zealand website.

Laminex NZ's purpose is to be a trusted business partner providing New Zealand's premiere decorative surface and panel offer supported by meaningful warranties, expert knowledge and the best technical expertise in the market. The company does so whilst being responsible for their actions — socially, ethically and environmentally, consistently refining their products and processes.

As the choice of materials continues to expand it is important to be informed and to choose materials that can be trusted.