Dated 1st March, 2005

Malaysia

Hot News 2005

With continuous expansion and development, Robina Flooring is set to pursue greater height with the following achievements:

Domotex Asia / China Floor 2005 with 6 new decors to be launched.

Robina Flooring will be exhibiting for the second time at Domotex Asia China Floor 2005, the largest international trade fair for floor coverings in Asia.  We will be launching 6 new décors at Domotex Asia! We look forward to seeing you there.

Domotex Asia / China Floor 2005
March 22-24
Booth 2C03 (International Area)
Shanghai New International Expo Center
Pudong, Shanghai, China

For more information of Domotex Asia, click here www.DomotexAsiaChinaFloor.com

Robina Inc. USA

On April 1^st, 2004, the  Robin Group purchased the assets of Classen USA. Now known as Robina Inc., our sales and marketing office for North American market, is an organization focusing and providing flooring products to most of the major retailers in USA for more than 5 years via a sizeable distribution network.

Extended factory Space and Additional Facilities

Robina Flooring has recently expanded our plant’s built up area from 10,000m² to 15,000m², providing sufficient storage for our increased flooring demand and extensive product collections besides giving room for the new invested machineries and operations.  V-groove hot-stamping machines and a new profiling line of renown brand “Homag” are input to increase of our capacity from current 3 million m² to 5 million m² of annual production.

Agreement with Microban

Early this year, Robina Flooring signed a licensee agreement with Microban (Americas) of the exclusive sales territory for Asia and co-exclusive sales territory for USA to incorporate this patented anti-microbial technology into Robina Flooring under the trademark of MIROBAN®. This latest anti-microbial protection will durably and effectively provide and added level of defense against damaging microbes for the useful lifetime of Robina Flooring.

Robina Wood

Robina Wood in Shanghai, China is the newest endeavor of The Robin Group conglomerate focusing exclusively on the manufacturing and sale of hardwood and Engineered wood floors.  This expansion would certainly complement the Group’s long history of expertise in the floor manufacturing landscape, as we strive to become the leading global manufacturer and one-source premier supplier for quality flooring products.

Robina Plantation

The Group has recently acquired a  4000 hectares of and within the vicinity of our manufacturing base for the plantation of tropical hardwood species from the state government of Malaysia.  This investment will certainly help to secure quality and consistent HDF coreboard supply to Robina Flooring, toward achieving the FSC requirement for the variety productions within the Group.