Is this just a re-branding of some other manufacturer?
I visited the Tarkett corporate web site, and solid hardwood flooring is not a featured product line for them.
How does it rate overall?
Considering buying it - good price
3/4" x 2-1/4" natural oak ~ $3.29 sq. ft.

Comments, experience, please.

Tarkett ,(Harris Tarkett), is one of the oldest mills in the Country. They've been manufacturing solids for years. Just be aware that it's the grade you desire, i.e. select, #2, etc. ,( clean with lengths, OR , knots, excessive mineral streaks, worm holes & shorts).
Good quality milling, their solid is made in the U.S.

Tarkett S.A. bought out its minority shareholders for 19.50 euros a share. It was just the latest in a long series of moves by the Paris headquartered company to become a dominant player in the worldwide hard surface flooring business.

The strategy to make Tarkett a world player in hard surface flooring is hardly a new one. It began taking shape nearly a decade ago, shortly after the French firm Sommer Allibert bought the German flooring manufacturer Tarkett. Sommer, which was controlled by the Deconinck family, made both flooring and automotive fabrics.

The Deconincks wanted to keep control of the company, but decided it wasn’t possible in the automotive business, which required huge investments to keep up with the increasingly intense competition in that business. So they decided to sell the automotive business and concentrate on flooring, where cash investments wouldn’t be as heavy.

Sommer Tarkett exited the automotive business in 2000, then spent four years restructuring the company. In 1997, the year Tarkett was acquired, Sommer had $1.4 billion euros in sales. In 2004, sales were still $1.4 billion.


We have very small markeshares in wood and laminate, because we are presently marketing wood only in Europe and North America. And just last year we began building integrated laminate production lines in Europe, in the U.S. (Pennsylvania) and in Russia.


Its headquarters is in Denmark and it has manufacturing facilities in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Hungary, China, Italy and North America, with the majority of it's wood manufacturing based in China.

It looks like I was thinking of the olden days on that, big time.