SOMMER, an authentic success story which starts with Alfred SOMMER in 1880.

Creation of BALATUM by Balatum S.A., specialised in the manufacture and sale of wallpaper and low-cost floors.

Merger with Balamundi Production, manufacturer of tufted carpets.
With the arrival of new technology and powerful competitors, the board decide to create new PVC and textile floor coverings therefore a workshop to manufacture tufted carpets is set up in Baisieux before being transferred to the BALAMO factory near Tournai.

Fortunately for Baisieux, the board decide to launch a new textile fibre carpet: the needlepuched carpet, already developed in the SOMMER factory in Sedan. Thanks to this the Baisieux factory remains operational after the end of BALATUM.

The company becomes Balamundi France, a group with 17 manufacturing plants located in a dozen countries throughout the world.

Bought back by the group SOMMER ALLIBERT, in 1980 the company becomes an "International flooring company".

The group Sommer Allibert takes over the manufacture of floor coverings for Tarkett and the two groups are merged , creating Tarkett SOMMER SAS which then becomes Tarkett SAS in 2003.

Wishing to concentrate solely on its core activity - hard flooring - Tarkett sells its needlepunching business to the De Saedeleir Group, a specialist in non woven industrial fibres. SOMMER Needlepunch®, a brand which respects the tradition of quality and professionalism of SOMMER continues to offer more design, more innovation, better service and better proximity.