WILSONART
Wilsonart is all about surfaces , the visible face of the built environment — but below the surface sits a business whose effectiveness depends very much on technology
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B ack in the 1950s when Ralph Wilson Sr founded Wilsonart , he was one of the pioneers of laminate worktops and invented processes that stimulated the creation of an entire industry . Anywhere you go nowadays , in hospitals , schools , retail , offices and of course in the home , walls , floors and working surfaces are likely to be covered by beautiful , hard-working , on-trend and high performance Wilsonart products . With more than 5,000 people and manufacturing facilities in North America , the United Kingdom , France , Germany , China , Thailand and Australia , the company sells into 100 countries worldwide .
Up until the fourth quarter of 2012 , Wilsonart was the acknowledged global leader in laminates but in that year , following the sale of a controlling interest in the company by its owner Illinois Tool Works ( ITW ) to Clayton Dubilier & Rice ( CD & R ), it entered a new
NOVEMBER 2018