Experience Materials for Furniture and Interior Design Up Close at NeoCon 2025
The Event: Material Intelligence: Destination NeoCon 2025
When: 9 – 11 June
Where: 7-5067, 7th floor, THE MART, Chicago, IL
Why: Material Choices Matter
Featuring these exhibitors
NeoCon® | June 9–11, 2025 | THE MART, Chicago
NeoCon has served as the world’s leading platform and most important event of the year for the commercial interior design industry since 1969. A launch pad for innovation—NeoCon offers ideas and introductions that shape the built environment today and into the future. The exhibition is complemented by first-class educational and inspirational programming offering expertise and insight into the most relevant topics in the industry today. NeoCon also serves as the hub for the commercial design community, uniting its designers, architects, end-users, manufacturers, dealers, service providers, associations, educators, students and media each year in June. Connect with more than 50,000 fellow design professionals from around the world with a non-stop schedule of events and celebrations and experience the delight of downtown Chicago in June. Visit neocon.com for additional information.
Material Intelligence is a materials specification resource for furniture producers, interior designers, architects, and students. Kenn Busch, founder of Material Intelligence and ClimatePositiveNOW.org, launched the first Materials Pavilion installation at NeoCon in 2008. Kenn writes for I+S Design, Metropolis, and other commercial interiors publications, and has been creating CEU content for architects and designers for decades.
Material choices matter. Every successful commercial project begins with selecting materials and components that meet your demands for performance, sustainability, and budget—without sacrificing your design goals. Material Intelligence is curating an experiential, educational installation where designers can see and handle a wide range of materials, finishes, and components currently used in top commercial projects. You’ll also find answers to your challenges and inspiration for your projects from the materials experts staffing our space.
Material Intelligence: Destination NeoCon is proud to be a featured NeoCon experience in 2025.
Find us at 7-5067 on the 7th floor of THE MART, June 9–11.
AMBTRA, Inc.
AMBTRA, Inc. is an import / export company specializing in decorative surfacing materials for the commercial building and furniture markets.
American RENOLIT
RENOLIT is a manufacturer of 3D, 2D and 1D Roll Laminates and decorative lightweight wood-plastic composite sheets. RENOLIT creates surfacing materials which meet the highest demands in terms of design, quality, and performance. Its laminates are used on components and panels in retail interiors, healthcare office systems, hospitality, closet organization, kitchen & bath, and Caravan. Attributes of RENOLIT laminates include excellent impact and wear resistance. RENOLIT Laminates include PET, PP, and PVC options.
RENOLIT will be showing the following materials at NeoCon:
PET FILMS:
RENOLIT D1AMOND
RENOLIT 2D PET
RENOLIT 3D PET
PP FILM:
RENOLIT ALKORCELL
Chemetal
Chemetal is a great and relatively easy way for design professionals to specify metal for interior design projects. The selection is massive, it’s one of the world’s largest collections of metal designs and laminates for commercial interiors. Chemetal makes many designs in-house in USA; deeply brushing, aging and adding patinas by hand and machine. The designs are unique works of art, created with a manufacturing consistency to ensure repeatability. Plus, Chemetal sources other metals from Germany, Japan and USA.
Chemetal is a second-generation family-owned company that has been in business for over 50 years. It is sold worldwide through an international, though mostly domestic, distributor network.
Besides Chemetal, the company offer two other product lines, Treefrog Veneer, a premium prefinished wood veneer from Italy, and InteriorArts, a design-focused HPL laminate.
Our aim is to offer the interior design community quality and on-trend design materials. We back it up with exceptional sales and customer service that cares about getting it right. Learn more at chemetal.com.
Columbia Forest Products
Columbia Forest Products is the premier manufacturer of hardwood plywood, with seven production mills and distribution partners across the continent.
Columbia is committed to rigorous forestry practices and the mindful construction of our panels. We are proud to be a responsible industry leader.
Dackor 3D Laminates
Dackor specializes in laminates that can be utilized by manufacturers, installers, designers, or architects. Dackor laminates can be employed to create compelling retail environments, modern living spaces, hospitality atmospheres, or lively office settings. It carries trending colors and textures to fit your design needs. Dackor also offers special services like small roll program, slitting, and protective peel-coat applications.
Talk to Dackor about the first 60” wide hot coating line in North America. Features include dual melters, two lacquer/UV coating stations, Excimer with nitrogen for super-matte as well as custom embossing line. The final product can create up to 5,000 taber abrasion. Some product examples are outdoor decking, outdoor awnings, car wraps, soffits, signage, boat floors, flooring, or wall panel systems.
Interprint
“Think global, act local” – that is the philosophy pursued by Interprint for more than 50 years. With more than 1,400 employees worldwide, the Interprint Group is one of the leading décor printers.
Interprint’s designs decorate the surfaces of all types of wood-based panels that are processed into furniture, flooring and used for interior finishing. Wood, stone and abstract designs by Interprint are eye-catching because of an authenticity that is also at the foundation of the company’s corporate culture.
Lunawood, LLC
Lunawood enables innovative and long-lasting use of wood in all decorative surfaces. Lunawood modifies the best certified Scandinavian timber into beautiful ThermoWood® products in its mills in the heart of Finland. Grown and strengthened nearly 80 years in the harsh Nordic climate, the renewable forest provides us with the best raw material that will last for decades. The beauty of Lunawood ThermoWood® lies in its impressive, rustic, and natural look. It has a beautiful glow and uniform brown tone that brings the warmth of nature into an urban space.
Lunawood products are thermally modified using only natural methods, heat and steam. Lunawood is most known for its dimensional stability, durability, and sustainable nature. It doesn’t require surface treatments, which makes it an ecological choice throughout its life cycle.
In North America, Lunawood, LLC – produces thermally modified wood from locally sourced hardwoods in Cleveland, Georgia, continuing the Lunawood tradition of sustainable excellence. Wherever Lunawood Thermowood® is used, it brings Nordic luxury and a natural feel to the space.
Onyx Specialty Papers
Onyx Specialty Papers supplies FSC-certified decor papers used in laminates around the world. Onyx revolutionized the furniture surfaces industry by adding metallic and organic “inclusions” in the paper-making process, creating a new category of decorative options for designers that use HPL and other laminates. Onyx also supplies high-quality print-grade decor papers for digital and traditional rotogravure printing.
Onyx Specialty Papers is a Climate Positive NOW leader.
Panolam Surface Systems
Panolam Surface Systems: Bringing More to the Surface at NeoCon
For over 85 years, Panolam Surface Systems has been a leading provider of integrated surface solutions for architects, designers, and specifiers in the contract interiors market. At NeoCon, you’ll see their latest collections, designed to bring your vision to life.
WHAT SETS PANOLAM APART
Extensive Selection: With over 500 colors, 28 finishes, and a variety of material treatments, Panolam offers the industry’s widest range of surface solutions.
Integrated Systems: The Panolam portfolio includes high-pressure laminates (Pionite & Nevamar brands) and Fiber Reinforced Laminate (FRL Wall Protection Panels) – all designed to work seamlessly together.
Unmatched Value: Panolam delivers exceptional quality, aesthetics, and performance at competitive prices.
Sustainability Focus: Panolam is committed to environmentally responsible practices, offering products with recycled content and innovations for a greener future.
Panolam Surface Systems is a Climate Positive NOW leader.
Stevenswood
STEVENSWOOD offers innovative TFL surfaces that redefine interior aesthetics with cutting-edge designs, captivating textures, and a range of products tailored to meet any designer’s unique needs with style and sophistication.
STEVENSWOOD is committed to being responsible and efficient and their manufacturing processes. Their commitment to sustainability is deeply ingrained in their manufacturing process. Beyond utilizing eco-friendly core materials and no-added Urea Formaldehyde, their environmental certifications underscore STEVENSWOOD’s dedication to environmental and health standards.
