Provenance · Certifications · Lot QC
Verify everything.
Where KONO floors are made, tested and certified — with the documents to prove it.
Three certifications, all checkable.
Every KONO production line holds all three. Don't take the cards below at face value — each links to the public registry where you can look the factory up yourself.
FloorScore®
SCS Global Services
An independent lab tests finished-plank VOC emissions against California's CDPH standard — the actual test behind the words “low-VOC.”
CARB2 / TSCA Title VI
CARB · US EPA
Caps formaldehyde emissions from the composite core — federal law since 2018, and the exact rule the 2015 laminate scandal was fought over.
GREENGUARD Gold
UL Environment
UL's stricter chamber-emission limits, set low enough for schools, nurseries and healthcare — a tighter bar than standard GREENGUARD.
How a KONO floor is made.
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Materials selected on three continents
European oak décor, Austrian-engineered HDF core stock, wear layers from specialist mills — chosen by KONO, not by brokers.
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Dedicated runs to KONO spec
12 mm · AC5 · Uniclic®, produced exclusively for us — never open-market batches with our label on the box.
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Every lot inspected before shipping
Pre-shipment QC on each production lot; the lot number follows the boxes onto your invoice.
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Warehoused in Sacramento
14,300 sqft on the ground. One dye lot per project, will-call from 7 am, reorders matched by lot.
Why we manufacture overseas — and why that's not the story you've heard.
In 2015, Lumber Liquidators was caught selling laminate that failed California's formaldehyde limits, and imported flooring earned a decade of distrust. Deserved — but the lesson was never “overseas is bad.” It was that an anonymous supply chain is bad. The best laminate presses, core technology, and precision milling lines on earth are simply not in California; pretending otherwise would mean selling you a worse floor for more money.
So we run the opposite of anonymous: dedicated production to our spec, certifications you can check in public registries — FloorScore®, CARB2 / TSCA Title VI, GREENGUARD Gold — a lot number on your invoice, and a Sacramento company that answers its phone for the life of the warranty.
Ask us for the factory audit — we'll show you.
What lot inspection actually checks.
Before a lot ships, sample boards come off the line and get taken apart. Four checks decide whether it earns a KONO label:
Uniclic® profiles clicked, unclicked, and re-clicked — engagement force and a clean release, ten cycles per sample.
Edges gauged against spec; out-of-square milling is what makes seams “peak” a year later.
Color read against the golden sample for the run, so box 30 matches box 1 — and next year's reorder matches both.
Core moisture measured before containers seal; a wet core is the swelling you read about in reviews of cheaper floors.
The teardown promise
Because Uniclic® clicks apart as cleanly as it clicks together, inspection doesn't stop at looking: QC pulls planks from the middle of an assembled test floor and tears the joint down. Your floor can do the same — a damaged plank years from now is a repair plank from your spare box, not a re-floor.
The lot number rides your invoice, so the boards we tested and the boards in your hallway trace to the same run.
See a lot number on a product page →CSLB #1122334 — check our license standing on the CSLB site anytime.
Liability and workers' comp current; certificates of insurance on request, before work starts.
Product + labor together. One company to call — no factory blaming the installer, no installer blaming the factory.