RESOPAL® – the brand, the company and the surface, traditional and contemporary. Resopal GmbH with approx. 600 employees in Groß-Umstadt produces functional and decorative high pressure laminates (HPL). The products are used in trains, in cruise ships, in interior fittings and on external facades, in swimming pools, hospitals and sports facilities as well as on furniture. End users associate the name with 1950s design: kidney-shaped tables, kitchens and small breakfast worksurfaces. The brand goes back to the patent registered in 1930 by August-Hermann Römmler. As a result of its high level of brand awareness, the company, founded in 1867, was renamed in 1971. The present-day Resopal GmbH company considers itself the pioneer of laminate surfaces and continues to supply one of the hardest material surfaces for trendsetting solutions in contemporary interior design. The company belongs to Wilsonart International Holdings LLC. It is FSC and PEFC-certified and is certificated for enviro