I4F, a group of companies providing patents and technologies to the flooring industry, has teamed up with Amorim, a Portugal-based producer of cork-based products, on a strategic patent partnership and two license agreements.
Through the patent partnership, i4F has secured exclusive licensing rights to Amorim’s sustainable rigid bio-cork composite patent portfolio and will represent Amorim on IP related matters associated with those technologies. Simultaneously, Amorim has signed two license agreements, covering i4F’s drop-lock and digital printing technologies. Amorim has also acquired a Jupiter digital printing line with DLE plus from Hymmen, delivering direct-on-board digitally printed decors and digitally embossed-in-register lacquer structures. The introduction of i4F’s drop-lock will begin at their facility early 2024.