If size matters, Bauwerk Group holds a clear advantage.
As one of the industry’s largest wood flooring companies, Bauwerk maintains a wide manufacturing footprint and global presence. Its North American portfolio alone includes two formidable brands— Somerset Hardwood Flooring and Boen— while the namesake Bauwerk Parkett line is sold throughout Europe. With state-of-the-art production plants in Somerset, Ky.; Switzerland; Lithuania and Croatia, the Bauwerk Group has established itself as a global market leader in the high-quality, real wood flooring sector.
“We constitute a very large organization with a global footprint that’s driving great innovation, beautiful products and super performance,” said Steve DeCarlo, CEO of the Boen and Somerset brands. “It’s an impressive ladder of products—including 2 ¼ inch solid all the way up to three-layer engineered hardwood as well as specialized hardwood floors—that we can bring to the marketplace.”
Bauwerk’s deep experience in hardwood flooring production, combined with its international manufacturing operations, allows the company to leverage its scale and expertise. “We have a great milling operation, and we support that with utilization of our associates who are highly trained,” DeCarlo added. “And because we have manufacturing in Croatia, Lithuania, Switzerland and the U.S., we do a lot of creative idea sharing among those four regions so that we’re not just isolated to one plant here in the States. We have a cadre of top-notch engineers and manufacturing experts that share information, processes and best practices. The amount of brain power, manpower and resources is unrivaled.”
Some standouts of the two most popular brands in the company’s lineup:
SOMERSET
Even prior to Bauwerk’s acquisition of the Somerset brand in 2022, the U.S.-made product had established a long history (36 years, to be exact) of producing quality, American-made hardwood flooring. Moreover, Somerset sources raw materials from the Appalachian region—an area known for its robust lumber supply.
“We can also combine European lamellas with U.S. platforms engineered here,” DeCarlo said. A case in point is Somerset’s Euro Wide Plank. This stylish collection, introduced in 2024, fuses Somerset’s expertise in hardwood finishing with a premium, precision chassis produced by the parent company in Europe. This stunning 8.25-inch-wide European white oak floor serves as the perfect canvas for a variety of colors specifically designed for the North American market
BOEN
Boen, which has been manufacturing building products since the 1600s, has a rich history in its own right. On the hardwood flooring side, the company boasts unique capabilities, especially engineered hardwood. This includes its popular Chaletino plank, whose long/wide boards span nearly 10 feet. In fact, the boards coming out of Boen’s European operations are some of the widest planks available in the market today.
“Boen represents our premium brand, which is 100% European-engineered,” DeCarlo said. In keeping with its spirit of innovation, Boen plans to expand its lineup later this fall with new colors. This includes six European light neutral color tones available across three engineered hardwood platforms: 9/16 x 5 7/16 x 86 5/8; 9/16 x 8 1/4 x 86 5/8; and 3/4 x 11 3.4 x 108.
