Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

B uoyed by technology advancements, the benefits of the latest adhesives for resilient flooring are wide and far-reaching—from better indoor air quality to less risk of moisture-related flooring failure. It offers up to 12 hours of available working time and may be trowel-applied or roller-applied based on flooring type.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Las Vegas— Meridian Adhesives Group , parent of Taylor Adhesives, has opened a state-of-the-art manufacturing and distribution hub here. Meridian is the fastest-growing adhesives company in the industry, with 26 global locations and 15 manufacturing facilities,” said Dan Pelton, CEO of Meridian.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Led by our world-class design team, it’s a tribute to our entire company’s commitment to providing architects and designers with a premium product—one that delivers an unmatched combination of style, durability and performance. We’re proud and humbled by the recognition.” Individual planks and tiles are easily removed and replaced if damaged.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 30, 2020

—MAPEI said the SCS Global Services has issued its Indoor Advantage Gold certification for indoor air quality for over 255 of MAPEI’s products (in the U.S.) for low VOC emissions in various categories including architectural coatings, sealants and adhesives. It also conforms with CDPH Standard Method v1.2-2017

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

—Sika-DriTac is relaunching DriTac 4141 Golden Bullet, a single-component, multiple-solution adhesive that offers unlimited subfloor moisture protection with no testing required for residential and commercial hardwood flooring installations. It provides superior sound control properties while also acting as a crack suppressant.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 10, 2020

Pity the poor adhesive. These days, top-performing glues have to be multi-taskers, flexible enough to work with dozens of flooring types, environmentally responsible and cure quickly enough so businesses can return in 24 hours or less. DriTac Flooring Products. FCIS) product manager. By Ken Ryan.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A good-looking floor at a fair price is only half the battle. To ensure a customer is completely satisfied with her new floors, top quality must be achieved at every level—especially the installation phase. That’s why it’s so critical that the right adhesive is specified for the project at hand. By Lindsay Gonzalez.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 3, 2020

Columbus, Ohio—Starnet Commercial Flooring has announced the winners of the 22nd annual Starnet Design Awards. The most prestigious award, the 2020 Grand Prize, was presented to Starnet member Cornerstone Commercial Flooring for its work on Park Elementary School in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Architect: Coleman Partners Architects.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Dalton—Taylor Adhesives introduced a new hardwood flooring repair kit, Repair, and a new size to its growing wood line up. Repair contains everything needed to repair hollow spots in hardwood flooring, except the drill, according to Taylor. The product is warranted over cutback residue. It also has a one-year shelf life.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

JANUARY 27, 2020

Manufactured from clay and other naturally-occurring minerals, ceramic tile does not contain the chemicals present in other floor coverings that are receiving increased attention for their possible adverse health effects, such as formaldehyde, VOCs (volatile organic compounds) or PVC (polyvinyl chloride). Cordoba by Metropolitan.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 20, 2021

DriTac Flooring Products has partnered with Fishman Flooring Solutions, a Baltimore, Md.-based based flooring and installation supply distributor that has served the flooring industry for over 100 years. Fishman will now carry DriTac’s line of wood and resilient flooring adhesives and installation solutions.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 31, 2024

—Sika Corporation has begun an expanded partnership with Belknap-Haines, a national flooring distributor that provides flooring and installation supplies to contractors and flooring professionals across the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 6, 2022

.— Boen said it has achieved FloorScore certification for all its European-produced hardwood flooring products. FloorScore is a certification program established by SCS with the Resilient Floor Covering Institute (RFCI) for hard surface flooring and flooring adhesives products that meet strict indoor air quality (IAQ) requirements.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

—Mannington Commercial’s award-winning Legato Liquid Linoleum flooring product has attained USDA BioPreferred certification from the U.S. “When measuring a product’s environmental impact, customers want transparency. “When measuring a product’s environmental impact, customers want transparency.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 1, 2018

May 28/June 4, 2018: Volume 33, Issue 25 By Lindsay Baillie Adhesive manufacturers are continuing to develop premium environmentally friendly products as a means to stay in lockstep with the.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Despite the fact that we are going to seek LEED for Homes certification for our project (where deconstruction is preferable to demolition), there are benefits to every residential home owner who is planning on building a new house on a site where a house currently exists. So what are the advantages to deconstruction?

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 10, 2022

Starnet Commercial Flooring, the world’s largest network of full-service commercial flooring contractors, revealed the winners of its 2022 Design Awards Competition during a special ceremony here recently. CB Flooring. Ardex, Armstrong Flooring. LVR Commercial Flooring. LVR Commercial Flooring. Healthcare.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 20, 2020

continues to offer online technical training that provides opportunities to learn about the full range of products, installation tips and subfloor preparation details. Schönox Technical Trainings include its synthetic and hybrid self-leveling technology, moisture mitigation systems, basic overview of all Schönox products, as well as others.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 1, 2020

Resilient sheet products like Bloom are an important flooring surface for hospitals and other healthcare facilities right now. The 6 foot width is offered with QuickStix, a pre-applied adhesive system that is said to eliminate the need for hours of labor. More information and donation options are here.

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