i4F, a group of companies providing patents and technologies to the flooring industry, recently won the “Best of TISE (The International Surfaces Event)” SURFACES 2021 Innovation Award for its portfolio of Digital Printing technologies. This recognised Hymmen’s Digital Lacquer Embossing (DLE) Plus technology, solely available via an i4F license, for its advancements in the creation of unbelievably real optics and haptics. Hymmen has established itself as one of the world's leading providers of industrial digital printing for flooring and already won the Great Innovations Award at the INPRINT fair in 2014 and an Interzum Red Dot Award for its patented DLE technology in 2019.