Horner Flooring Co

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The Horner Flooring Company is a charter member of the Maple Flooring Manufacturers Association (MFMA) and in 2005 celebrates its 114th year as a quality manufacturer of northern hard maple sports flooring. 2005 also begin a new era at Horner as it expanded its product line to include synthetic sports flooring solutions. For over 114 years, the Horner name has exemplified the phrase Tradition of Excellence, providing affordable, top-quality flooring materials to schools, colleges, universities, sports organizations, Olympic and international athletic governing bodies and private clubs throughout the world.Horner Flooring Company was started by William S. Horner in Reed City, Michigan in 1891. At that time, pine resources in the area had started to dwindle, so Horner decided to convert his existing pine planing mill to hardwood flooring manufacturing. In doing so, he became the first manufacturer of hardwood flooring -- prior to this development, hardwood flooring had been a custom-made product.. As the world's first mass-producer of hardwood flooring, Horner can truly be called The Oldest Name in Sports Flooring.By 1914, hardwood resources in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan had also dwindled and it was increasingly apparent to William Horner that Michigan's densely forested Upper Peninsula would be a better location for the company. A new mill was constructed in Newberry, in the eastern Upper Peninsula, where Horner could draw on some of the highest quality hardwood resources available. The new mill was soon turning out flooring at the rate of 37 million board feet per year, making Horner the largest producer of hardwood flooring in the world. In 1931 Horner Flooring relocated from Newberry to its present location in Dollar Bay on Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, amid vast stands of top-quality northern hardwoods.

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