Known for their cutting edge materials and on-trend decors, Egger are a big player in the world of laminate and melamine boards. Used for furniture, worktops, doors and floors, you can find their products in homes, retail, hospitality, leisure and a range of settings worldwide.
Since its foundation in 1961 in Austria, Egger has become a global company, but it’s still run by the Egger family. Everything at Egger revolves around wood – they love the stuff and the warmth and natural feel it brings into their interior decors.
They also love its sustainability, and Egger is big on responsible forestry and making sure their boards come from sustainable sources. They even run a whole division for timber harvesting and forest management services.
Whether you’re looking for sleek and modern, chunky timber or elegant marble, you’ll find a great choice of boards from Egger, and edge bandings to match. Their material ranges are incredibly realistic in look and feel, so if you’re after the impact of real wood, stone or tile but want the convenience and hygiene of laminate, these are the go-to guys.
If you’re using Egger boards and need a seamless finish with perfectly matched Egger edging, head on over to our online shop. Simply type in your Egger board reference and the matching edging will pop up.
To discover all the benefits of Egger edge banding and boards read on…
Egger Worktops
When it comes to kitchen worktops, Egger is a stand-out name and you can be sure of top quality, high performance and trend-led design.
Their worktops help to create a premium look and feel with decors and textures that mimic solid wood, stone and ceramic but with all the hardwearing, hygienic, and easy to care for benefits of laminate.
They offer two distinct worktop ranges: Contemporary and Premium, so whatever look you’re aiming for they’ve something to fit the bill.
The Contemporary Range has been developed to reflect the latest colour palettes for kitchens in wood grain, ceramic and stone finishes. And if you want a coordinated look, matching upstands and splashbacks are also available. Many worktop designs also have matching melamine faced chipboard available, allowing you to create a coordinated kitchen design for end panels, door frontals or shelving.
In the Premium collection, you can choose from 12 high-end designs. This is where you’ll find square edge profiles and next-generation finishes that are virtually indistinguishable from solid wood and stone.
Innovative Materials
Egger is well known for its industry-leading innovations and producing boards that not only look great but have enhanced performance qualities. Check out their latest decorative collections that include Perfect Sense lacquered boards in Matt or Gloss.
These melamine resin coated MDF boards are finished with UV coating technology to make sure they retain their high gloss and are resistant to even micro scratches.
The Matt boards come with anti-fingerprint properties, so they’ll stand up to those sticky finger marks and retain that velvety smooth surface. Or if super shine is more your style, Perfect Sense Gloss creates the illusion of extreme depth and a glass-like finish for incredible visual impact.
Of course, when it comes to a wood finish, Egger has more options than you can shake a stick at. The Egger Feelwood range provides an extremely realistic effect, full of visual and sensory appeal.
Here, wood pattern and grain work in complete harmony to create a look as close to veneer or solid wood as you can get in melamine. Real wood looks amazing in homes, adding a cosy, earthy design element. But it’s cost, weight and maintenance make it impractical for many. For those that want the appeal of wood but the manageability of melamine faced board, the Feelwood range is a great choice. Completed with an edging that gives the look and feel of sawn timber, no-one need ever know your worktop is not solid wood.
Egger Edge Banding
When it comes to the finishing touches, you can’t afford to overlook your edges. Egger produces its own edge banding to match its boards, something that not all board manufacturers do. Whether rounded or square edged, material effect or block colour, Cadre has a huge choice of Egger compatible edge banding. Here’s our choice of the best Egger edge banding…
Ceramic adds a touch of elegance to interiors, but it can be cold and unforgiving. You can achieve the same look with the benefits of melamine faced boards with this Ceramic Chalk Patterned ABS Edging, which matches Egger F312 ST87 Ceramic Chalk F 312 from the Premium worktop collection.
Concrete has become a favoured material for creating chic, urban interiors. Try this Grey Concrete Effect ABS Edging, which matches Egger F283 ST22 Boston Concrete F 283, from the Contemporary worktop collection, to achieve that wonderful tactile quality and tone of polished concrete.
The company that promises to offer ‘More From Wood’ has, of course, a fantastic range of unbelievably realistic wood effect boards. Try this Walnut Wood Effect ABS Edging to match Egger H3710 ST9 Natural Carini Walnut H 3710; Oak Wood Effect ABS Edging matched with Egger H3303 ST10 Natural Arlington Oak H 3303; or this Dark Wenge Wood Effect ABS Edging paired with Egger H3058 ST22 Mali Wenge H 3058.
For something a little different, mix up your textures. Try this Grey Patterned ABS Edging paired with Egger F426 ST10 Grey Linen F 426 for wow-factor furniture.
The Perfect Sense Matt range is technology in action – this board will stay perfectly matt thanks to its anti fingerprint properties. Pair your Egger U961 PM Graphite Grey U 961 with this Graphite Grey Perfect Matt ABS Edging for a really luxurious touch.
There’s plenty of choice when it comes to block colours, too. Thousands in fact, so whether you want to perfectly match or add an accent edge, you’ll find what you need. We love this Denim Blue Textured ABS Edging, which matches Egger U540 ST9 Denim Blue U 540.
To find out more about the benefits of ABS edge banding, check out our blog here.
Lamination Choices
Since opening their 1-million square-foot Lexington, N.C. plant in 2020, Egger have been heavily investing in expanding their laminate choices. From the start they’ve been producing thermally fused laminate (TFL) and particleboard designed for interior-design applications. This year they’ve been working on adding a third lamination line at the plant, increasing their TFL production capacity by 50%. The intent is to create shorter lead times for customers while meeting growing market demands.
While this predominantly affects customers in North America and Canada, it’s a testament to the ethos of the company. Egger is dedicated to the development and evolution of their extensive lines of value-added product range, from raw particleboard to thermally fused laminate (TFL), edge banding, laminates, MDF Mouldings, Medium Density Fiberboard (MDF), and laminate flooring.
Egger Edge Banding Decors
One of the great aspects of Egger edge banding is their range. While there are a lot of edge banding brands, Egger has such a wide range of looks available it’s usually very easy to find what you’re looking for. They also offer a range of decors, and while these are predominantly vertical grains, there are also diagonal and speckled banding options to give you something a little different to work with.
Diagonal decor is usually seen on marble effect edge banding, giving you the perfect finish for a faux marble counter and other marble surfaces. Speckled decor, on the other hand, is the ideal finish if you’re looking to create an effect like concrete, which doesn’t rely on wood grain or a uniform stone pattern like marble, but is instead more chaotic. The pattern of concrete is still a distinctive one, it simply doesn’t follow linear lines (in any direction), making it atypical for edge banding which is inherently linear in design.
Colour Choices In The Egger Range
In addition to their range of lamination and decor choices, we are also always very impressed with the wide range of colour options available from Egger edge banding. While they have more choices in grey and white than any other colour (a reflection of demand rather than anything else) there is still a broad selection to be had in beige, black, blue, brown, and green. On the more unusual side you’ll also find plenty of orange, pink, red, yellow, and even violet options.
As if that isn’t enough, Egger offers colours that fall between the lines and have multiple options that are the perfect match for boards and other project needs, but aren’t necessarily a conventional colour choice. The result is that, whatever you’re working on, you can usually find the perfect colour option from Egger.
Front-Lining Research
Another element of the Egger brand that we love is their dedication to research. Indeed, the company is often at the cutting edge of understanding and innovation where laminate and edge banding is concerned. For example, in May 2022, a study found that by using thermally lined fused laminate, as opposed to other forms of woodesque material, companies can save up to 79%.
So if you’re looking for innovative materials and super-realistic effects, Egger boards should be on your hit list. And when it comes to finishing your look with perfectly matched Egger edge banding, come to Cadre. If you can’t find what you’re looking for in our online shop, just give our friendly expert team a call.