Rockland Flooring has been granted a United States patent for the production of wood flooring with reinforced thermoplastic underlay, which the company markets as Defender Composite Flooring. The patented method produces a reinforced truck trailer or container floor using a laminated wood component with a water impermeable fiber-reinforced thermoplastic underlay adhered to the bottom surface of the wood.

“Rockland Flooring continues to provide innovative solutions and this new patent shows our commitment to the transportation industry and our valuable customers,” says Chris Wolford, Rockland Flooring’s vice president of sales and marketing. “Fleets want stronger floors with higher floor ratings and increased service life. Defender is a unique product because it’s capable of delivering all of these benefits but at a fraction of the cost of traditional composite flooring. Defender has been our most successful product launch to date simply because of the value proposition.”