Our Company
Cutting-Edge Surfaces, Since 1992
For more than 30 years Skema has been helping you to live your spaces to the full, bringing Italian design and innovation to your environments. We create floor and wall coverings that combine aesthetics and performance, with products that are also ideal for quick renovations. Discover our solutions: beautiful, functional products designed for your daily comfort. Visit the catalogue and find the perfect solution to live your space the way you have always wanted!
Our Numbers
Cutting-Edge Surfaces, Since 1992
Skema was born in 1992 from an idea of Domenico Barabas. After working for years in the furniture and furnishings industry, Barabas realised the potential of laminate flooring, which was gaining increasing popularity in Europe and the United States. In a country like Italy, where parquet and ceramic floors dominate, laminate represents a revolution, both in terms of performance and installation, thanks to new interlocking technologies. Together with laminate, Barabas introduces a new flooring culture. In the province of Treviso, one of the major manufacturing districts for made-in-Italy furniture, Skema started production under its own brand name, soon becoming synonymous with quality Italian laminate flooring. As the years went by, the succession of innovations and developments in the field of floor and wall coverings led Skema to focus on expanding its offer. Striking a perfect balance between tradition and innovation, wood flooring is introduced and new resilient and composite materials are explored.
The perfect blend of aesthetics and functionality
Creating living spaces is an art. Architecture, finishes, furniture: every detail counts. But the floor is the base, the enduring heart of your design. Skema combines aesthetics and functionality, reinventing surfaces with contemporary style. With us, beauty and technology come together to give you the perfect floor.
Inspired by Universal Values
Design
Design is our world. Our surfaces are beautiful but they are also practical and functional, perfect for contemporary interior projects.
Research
We love to innovate. We search for trendy surfaces and state-of-the-art technologies. We offer up-to-date solutions for every need.
Multiplicity
Free to choose. We know that every interior design project is unique, which is why we offer many technically different products in many variations.
Safe and sustainable floors and coatings
Skema products are verified and safe, where relevant CE marked or certified in accordance with EU Regulation No. 305/2011 on construction products, healthy, low emission of formaldehyde and VOCs (volatile organic compounds), effective in improving the acoustic and thermal well-being of buildings.
Skema products are sustainable, much of the raw material wood used is PEFC or FSC® certified, attesting to origin from certified forests or plantations; in addition, some products are engineered to provide for low use of virgin wood.
Skema products are suitable for use in public environments; in fact, there are several types of floor and wall coverings that possess excellent fire retardant characteristics and comply with CAM (minimum environmental criteria).
Below are the various company or product certifications and compliances that have enabled the company to improve the organization and the qualitative and environmental performance of its products.
UNI EN ISO 9001 CERTIFICATION
To be ISO 9001 certified means first and foremost to be organized and oriented toward continuous improvement, providing products and services that meet the needs of customers and all stakeholders, both from the standpoint of compliance with the law and compliance with stated quality standards.
UNI EN ISO 14001 CERTIFICATION
FSC®
Achieved in 2013, FSC® certification aims to use wood from responsibly managed forests according to the Forest Stewardship Council®’s strict environmental, social and economic standards. Through its FSC®-certified products, Skema contributes to the preservation of forests, biodiversity conservation and landscape protection by complying with the laws and criteria for proper forest management.
PEFC CERTIFICATION
For Skema, obtaining PEFC certification allows it to expand and diversify its range of products derived from certified forests and controlled supply chain.
In particular, PEFC Certified products are available in the Living, Lumbertech range.
CAM COMPLIANCE
For the use of products in the construction of public buildings in accordance with Decree June 23, 2022.
A number of SKEMA’s products comply with the CAM – Minimum Environmental Criteria – essential for operating in the Italian public sector.
PRODUCT “CERTIFICATIONS” ON LOW VOC EMISSION IN INTERIOR ENVIRONMENTS (Ref. French Decree No. 2011-321).
They certify the low emission of VOCs (volatile organic composites) of products in indoor environments due to the excellent properties of their constituent materials in that they do not significantly impact air quality but rather contribute to maintaining a proper level of healthiness of the environments.
Such classifications are available for several products.
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