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Last update 8 July 2023

Description of economic activities

Other manufacturing nec (NACE2 3299)

This company, formerly known as Low & Bonar Ltd, is a manufacturer and distributor of fabrics, yarns, and flooring products. It was incorporated in 1912 and has its registered business address located in London, United Kingdom.The company is an international group manufacturing and supplying a wide range of products in the Specialist Materials and Plastics market. Specialist Materials include the manufacture of flooring products and supply of polypropylene yarns and fabrics. Plastics manufacture and supply standard and custom designed rotationally molded plastics and injection vacuum formed plastics.The company's business is design, conversion and finishing of polymers or other specialist materials into products for niche markets. It produces and supplies geotextile, agrotextile and technical textile fabrics to the industrial and building sectors. It also produces specialist flooring products, yarns, and fabrics.The company's products include tiles, flocked floor products, entrance systems, performance vinyls, fibrilated yarns, synthetic construction fibres for cementitious products, grass yarns, woven fabrics, and non-woven fabrics. The products are distributed under the brand names including Flotex (electrostatic flocked flooring), Tessera (tufted carpet tiles), Chocflex (acoustic vinyl), Coral (textile entrance matting), Nuway (rigid entrance matting), and Threshold (textile and rigid entrance matting). The wide product portfolio caters to sectors as wide-ranging as healthcare, education, transport, hospitality, leisure, offices, public sector, and retail.The company operates from six factories in Belgium (Zele, Lokeren and Ostend), Dundee - Scotland, Tiszaújváros - Hungary and in Yizheng - China. It is also present in the United States, Germany, France, and the Netherlands.One of the company's subsidiaries is Hood Flexible Packaging Corporation, a company based in Texas, United States of America. Hood Flexible Packaging Corporation is engaged in plastics, foil, and coated bags manufacturing.

  • LOW & BONAR LIMITED

  • United Kingdom (GB)
  • Company type: Corporate
  • Parent company: FREUDENBERG PERFORMANCE MATERIALS SERVICE GMBH
  • Chief Executive Officer (CEO): Ms Antoinette Culbert
  • CEO Total remuneration: N/A
  • Website: www.lowandbonar.com

Financial data

Number of employees

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1
14
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Revenue 1

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EBIT 1

-2
-819
-12
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EBITDA 1

-2
-761
-11
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Social dialog

  • Transnational Corporate Agreement (TCA): N/A
  • Global Framework Agreement (GFA): N/A
  • Societas Europaea (SE): N/A
  • Bangladesh Accord: N/A

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Standards and certifications

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Global Reporting Initiative certification

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  • Global Reporting Initiative GRI G4: N/A

Other company declarations

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Policies

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  • Policy to protect the right to health and safety in the workplaces in the supply chain: N/A
  • Diversity policy: N/A

Universal declarations

Declarations and treaties recognised by the country where the company has its registered office

  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
  • European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR):
  • Charter of Fundamental Rights of CDFL Workers (Strasbourg Charter 1989):
  • Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union EU CFR (Nice Charter 2000):
  • Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union TFEU:
  • Registered office in an OECD country:
  • ILO C029 - Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29):
  • ILO C087 - Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87):
  • ILO C098 - Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98):
  • ILO C100 - Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100):
  • ILO C105 - Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105):
  • ILO C111 - Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111):
  • ILO C138 - Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138):
  • ILO C182 - Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182):

Directives applied in the company offices in EU 27

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  • EP and Council D. 2005/56/EC:
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Presence in main rankings

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