LSPC Flooring, VSPC Flooring, MSPC flooring & negative oxygen ion SPC floor Explained

What is LSPC Flooring?

LSPC, or Light Stone Plastic Composite, is an upgraded and lightweight version of traditional SPC flooring. By optimizing the formula and production process, the proportion of heavy calcium carbonate is reduced and replaced with lighter polymer materials. This results in a significant weight reduction while maintaining SPC’s core strengths such as dimensional stability, water resistance, and durability.

Light SPC microfoam core material represents a new generation of sustainable materials engineering achievements. Its environmentally friendly formula reduces the use of high-density minerals while ensuring structural strength, significantly reducing carbon emissions during production and transportation. Technically, its refined porous foam structure reduces the overall weight of the flooring by 25–30%, making it easier to handle and install faster, while maintaining excellent dimensional stability. Advanced extrusion processes ensure a uniform and dense core material, providing better resilience, improved energy absorption, and enhanced softness and comfort underfoot.

In terms of design, Lightweight SPC flooring also boasts exceptional expressiveness. Utilizing advanced printing and surface treatment technologies, LSPC Flooring can present highly realistic wood and marble grain effects, comparable to natural materials, while retaining the superior practicality of SPC flooring. A rich variety of colors, textures, and surface finishes fully meet the cutting-edge demands of the market.

Lighter, stronger, and better—this is the inevitable development trend of SPC flooring

What is MSPC Flooring?

Melamine Stone Plastic Composite (MSPC) flooring is a highly durable, 100% waterproof, and eco-friendly flooring that combines a rigid SPC core with a scratch-resistant melamine top layer. It offers superior anti-scratch performance (AC3-AC5) compared to traditional SPC, mimicking tile or wood, with easy click-lock installation

MSPC(MVP) is much more anti-scratch than traditional laminate flooring:

Firstly, Anti-scratch and wear-resistant are totally different properties.

Briefly speaking, by anti-scratch, we mean its ability to resist unrecoverable scratches. Wear-resistant refers to the wear-layer performance. The thicker the wear-layer floor, the more wear-resistant it is.

It’s not difficult to understand why MVP is much more anti-scratch if you have experience with laminate flooring. The table below may bring you a better understanding:

Advantage & Disadvantage

Why is the price higher than the SPC flooring?

1. The raw material of melamine paper costs a lot.

2. SPC is mostly produced automatically, while MVP is totally hot-pressed by workers, board by board.

3. Factories have spent a lot of money on studying MVP. We need to take it back and study to make the MVP better.

What is VSPC Flooring?

In recent years, the flooring industry has ushered in a new trend of material innovation, and VSPC flooring (Veneer Stone Polymer Composite) is gradually becoming a popular choice in the market. Unlike traditional solid wood flooring or SPC , VSPC flooring uses a surface solid wood veneer and an inner stone plastic substrate structural design, combining the natural beauty of solid wood with the high stability of stone plastic flooring, providing a more advantageous floor solution for residential and commercial spaces.

Structural characteristics of VSPC flooring

The core technology of VSPC flooring lies in its three-layer composite structure:

Surface layer: Using natural solid wood veneer, showing real wood texture, providing a warm and natural touch, comparable to traditional solid wood flooring.

Core layer: composed of stone plastic composite material (SPC), it is highly waterproof, moisture-proof, and stable, and is not easily affected by changes in environmental humidity.

Bottom layer: usually equipped with a high-density balancing layer to improve the durability and comfort of the floor.

What is negative oxygen ion SPC floor?

Negative oxygen ion SPC (Stone Plastic Composite) flooring is an advanced, eco-friendly flooring option designed to improve indoor air quality by releasing negative ions, which can neutralize pollutants and formaldehyde. These floors are highly durable, 100% waterproof, and rigid, making them suitable for residential and commercial spaces.

Negative oxygen ions generally refer to the negative ions in the air. In the natural ecological environment, forests and wetlands are important places to produce negative oxygen ions in the air.

Negative oxygen ion Vinyl Floor, simply put, is a PVC floor that can release negative oxygen ions.

Why do we have negative oxygen ions on the SPC floor? Because we add a positive and negative mineral to the raw materials for the production of Luxury Vinyl Plank, we call it tourmaline. When the water in the air enters the electric field formed by the positive and negative electrodes, it will be converted into negative oxygen ions, and it can be continuously released to improve the concentration of negative oxygen ions in the indoor air and play the role of purifying the air. Using our negative oxygen ion floor in a space with high cleanliness requirements is equivalent to planting a forest indoors, creating a “natural” oxygen bar.

Conclusion（Alternative Perspective）

Although LSPC, VSPC, MSPC, and Oxygen SPC are all developed based on the globally popular SPC flooring, they are not random concepts. In many ways, they reflect the continuous evolution of the industry, shaped by years of real-world application, feedback from different markets, and changing customer expectations.

Each variation is created with a specific purpose in mind.
LSPC focuses on reducing weight and improving comfort, aiming to enhance transportation efficiency and foot feel.
VSPC introduces real wood veneer to achieve a more natural and premium visual experience.
MSPC explores further material optimization to balance flexibility, strength, and installation adaptability.
Oxygen SPC attempts to respond to growing interest in healthier indoor environments through added functional concepts.

These developments show that SPC flooring is not a static product, but a platform for continuous improvement, adapting to diverse applications across residential, commercial, and specialized environments worldwide.

Rather than viewing these variations as replacements, they can be seen as complementary options, each designed to better serve specific needs in different markets.

In the end, the evolution of SPC flooring reflects a simple reality: as global demand becomes more refined, flooring solutions are also becoming more diverse — offering more choices to meet different expectations.