New Lumo Briquette - environmentally friendly heating

Karelia-Upofloor has started producing environmentally friendly high-quality heating briquettes, called Lumo Briquettes, which will be sold in the Bauhaus-chain in the Nordic Countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) starting in September 2008. The Lumo Briquette is available through the new Karelia-Upofloor Web Shop in Finland only.

The Lumo Briquette has been made of Finnish renewable natural resource and the wood material used in the product comes from well maintained, certified forests, which have been maintained according to the PEFC* standards. It is also more environmentally friendly than fossil fuels like oil. The Lumo Briquette is a processed fuel product, which has been pressed into a tight package from saw dust generated by hardwood floor manufacturing.

The advantages of Lumo Briquette in heating:

Briquette has many advantages compared to firewood

• High energy content
• Small emissions
• Small need for storage space
• Less ashes per produced energy
• The efficiency coefficient of the heating unit improves
• Less visible combustion gases are born due to the low moisture percentage