Architectural Ceramics

AUGUST 25, 2017

clean, off-white color. Please note that while we try to keep quantities readily available, depending on demand, Architectural Ceramics may not have all colors and sizes in stock at all times. The strength and density of porcelain results in a higher PSI level, making it suitable for floor applications and commercial spaces.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As the parent company of Benchwick, Northann develops and produces high-quality flooring, wall panels and decorative surfaces in the U.S. As one of the fastest growing flooring producers, Benchwick earned a solid reputation by supplying many of the industry’s well-known SPC, WPC and LVT brands on a strictly private-label basis.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

These awards honor groundbreaking ideas and industry-changing concepts that have the potential to impact the way flooring is manufactured, promoted and sold. No Dye Lot means the color of the carpet will be the same from roll to roll, regardless of when it was manufactured. This helps retailers better manage inventory and reduce waste.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 3, 2023

These awards honor groundbreaking ideas and industry-changing concepts that have the potential to impact the way flooring is manufactured, promoted and sold. Premier Flooring Center. For retail sales associates, PFC is intended to be the easiest way to sell flooring—with confidence and simplicity. Europe and Asia/Pacific.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 26, 2023

Numerous exhibition spaces and private showrooms touted new flooring lines based around collaboration from both a design and narrative perspective. We had a lot of overseas visitors, both from Asia and Europe, which was great. We see a lot of color, more warm colors, too—not cool grays as much. Monday] was an awesome day.

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Tile Talk

MAY 20, 2014

Iran or Central Asia, 15th Century. These tiles were commonly used as floor and wall applications and to decorate mihrabs , the architectural niches in mosques. Early Islamic tiles involved a simple process of cutting single color, small tile fragments and assembled with the use of liquid plaster. floor tile. cement tile.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 18, 2024

In flooring, it can be as explosive as developing completely new product formulations that offer consumers features/benefits not previously available—we’re looking at you, WPC. This year’s Floor Covering News “Industry Disrupters” 2024 issue features all manner of players that are—or are poised to—shake things up. Changing the rules.

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Architectural Ceramics

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Many people have asked us about how the newly implemented Chinese tariffs will affect the tile and flooring industry. The unglazed porcelain has a colored porcelain patterned layer on top and an uncolored porcelain body on the bottom, which remains unseen when installed, which is great for commercial use. Here it is.

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China Industry Tile Porcelain 184

Floor Covering News

MAY 13, 2024

In an age where European white oak, domestic red oak and hickory reign supreme (and for good reason) it may behoove retailers and distributors to know that they have other hardwood flooring options to help them stand apart from the “me-too” pack. But the colors that come naturally with exotics are not easy to replicate.

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Cement Style

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

We have supplied our colorful cement tiles for residences and restaurants in Puerto Rica. Traditional floor designs made of cement tiles, “ Losa criolla ”(creole tile) or “ losa isleño ” (island tile), as they are called in Puerto Rico, are frequently laid out like a carpet or rug with a coordinating border just as an Oriental rug might.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 9, 2020

economy—and the commercial flooring market is no exception. COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on every aspect of the economy, including commercial flooring sales,” said John Stephens, vice president of marketing, Shaw Contract. Heading into 2020, commercial flooring was on pace to sustain modest growth across the board.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 21, 2021

In the grand scheme of things, the category still held strong as the third-largest sector in flooring, representing 12.4% Tile flooring, more so than most others, requires installation by highly trained and even artisanal tradespeople. Volume also experienced a drop off, registering a 3.5% of total industry dollars in 2020 and 12.7%

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 9, 2021

As it turns out, the flooring industry has its disrupters as well. For the flooring industry, the pandemic has caused major supply chain disruptions that impacted manufacturers and distributors and, eventually, retailers—who at times throughout 2020 were out of stock on certain products. Supply chain issues persist to this day.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

JULY 7, 2015

The cruise ended around 11 o’clock and a few us finished the night off with a nightcap back at the hotel on the 15th floor overlooking the city. Istanbul is a transcontinental city in Europe and Asia, located between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara in northwestern Turkey. Thursday, June 4th. Day three was quite an adventure.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 17, 2021

It will come as no surprise that resilient—mostly by the rigid core sub-segments—registered gains in 2020 while many other flooring categories did not. David Thoresen, senior vice president, product and innovation, Armstrong Flooring, noted that resilient products continue to gain more share and have become extremely popular in the home.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

hardwood flooring arena, but nimble enough to make timely adjustments in manufacturing and sourcing to address shifting demand both domestically and abroad. One of the first moves AHF Products made was the 2019 acquisition of LM Flooring , a highly regarded hardwood flooring manufacturer based in Sihanoukville, Cambodia.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Flooring executives already know the coming year will harbor plenty of hardships that will need to be confronted. That’s not happening, which is hampering flooring of all kinds.” Brian Carson president & CEO AHF Products “Slower remodel activity and consumers buying plastic floors, but mostly high interest rates.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 30, 2021

By Reginald Tucker Las Vegas—Even before the current shipping woes fueled backlogs in deliveries of many rigid core products, industry observers had already begun gauging a renewed interest in the laminate flooring category—particularly homegrown products. Display orders are tracking well for both laminate lines,” Ward said.

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Las Vegas Asia Products Sales 98

Floor Covering News

MAY 19, 2021

By Megan Salzano While 2020 was anything but ordinary, there was one thing the flooring industry could count on: the continued popularity of the resilient category. It will come as no surprise that resilient—led mostly by the rigid core/SPC sub-segments —once again registered gains while many other flooring categories in 2020 did not.

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Granada Tile

JUNE 27, 2018

As I’m sure you know, in the last few years, cement tiles have grown in popularity not only for their beauty but also for the durability and easy care that’s long made them a popular decorative element in the piazzas, public buildings and cafes of Europe, South American, North Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 17, 2022

By Reginald Tucker—After several years of losing market share to wood-look products, wood flooring is regaining momentum. That’s according to research conducted by the National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA), which estimates solid wood floors saw a 20% increase in 2021, ending the year with the highest share rate since 2007.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 14, 2021

When I made the move in 2017, we were Cali Bamboo with an eco-conscious consumer seeking the most sustainable flooring available. Think of us as the “In and Out Burger” of floor covering. When it comes to colors, you are a little different than some others out there. That is correct. The retail base was far from mainstream.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 29, 2021

Republic Floor has come a long way in six and a half years. We had three displays of 14 colors each,” Eylor said. Everywhere I’m opening, I have the same 300 colors in stock. I’m even keeping a minimum 20,000 square feet of the worst color I have. Republic bills itself as a logistics company that happens to sell floors.

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China Utah Phoenix System 40

Floor Covering News

JUNE 30, 2021

By Reginald Tucker Las Vegas—Even before the current shipping woes fueled backlogs in deliveries of many rigid core products, industry observers had already begun gauging a renewed interest in the laminate flooring category—particularly homegrown products. Display orders are tracking well for both laminate lines,” Ward said.

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Las Vegas Asia Products Sales 66

Decorator on Demand

AUGUST 16, 2011

They are large embroidered textiles originally from Central Asia. Do you feel the need to inject some color/life into your own color palette? Updating these beautful designs with modern color is really fun. Beautifully made and just popping with color. decided on a spa blue color and went from there.

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Decorative Painted Interior Design Bath 69

Floor Covering News

JULY 21, 2021

By Reginald Tucker W hen it comes to hardwood flooring sourcing , so much of the focus has been trained on Asia—rightfully so given the manufacturing prowess and scale of the scores of suppliers in that region of the world. A prime example is Boa-Franc, maker of the Mirage brand of hardwood floors. Pictured is Atmosphere.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 18, 2022

laminate flooring market is currently experiencing is not merely a coincidence, but rather the natural course of a still-evolving product category that is continuing to grow in the face of intense pressure from competing hard surface segments. Amy Watkins, business manager, Create Flooring, agreed. is no fluke.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 15, 2022

Inhaus sources and scans real hardwood flooring planks to create more realistic laminate visuals. By Reginald Tucker—The laminate flooring category has long been a go-to product segment for consumers seeking a durable, high-performing, visually appealing and value-based flooring alternative. Innovations galore.

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North America Products Journal Report 75

Floor Covering News

APRIL 3, 2022

1 issue on the minds of many hardwood flooring executives was how the category would fare in the midst of a raging pandemic. Turns out the segment—and the industry by and large—would fare well as consumers and homeowners spent more time inside and more of their disposable income on flooring and other home improvement projects.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 21, 2021

By Reginald Tucker Like many other aspirational home improvement categories that benefitted from consumers spending much more time at home in 2020, the North American hardwood flooring sector also reaped the rewards. 4-inch solid hardwood flooring growing with wirebrushed lighter tones garnering the most interest.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 18, 2021

The crisis has undercut efforts by retailers, suppliers and distributors to capitalize on the booming demand for flooring and is projected to continue throughout the next several months. While supply issues have reverberated across categories, retailers note a greater challenge when it comes to resilient flooring in particular. “It

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 24, 2021

Key areas of focus in the design plan are the first and second floors of theMART. CEU Design Skills 1 Track: Discovering Nature’s Crossover Colors: Updated Trends in Classics. Leatrice Eiseman, Eiseman Center for Color Information & Training. How do you select the long-lived colors? What hues are considered timeless?

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Must-have characteristics to look for in a reliable wood flooring supplier. T here are scores of hardwood flooring suppliers in the market today, but not all are created equal. First, retailers need to look for a hardwood supplier that’s easy to do business with,” said Dewevai Buchanan, CEO of Nature Flooring-North America.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 10, 2020

When Brian Carson took the reins as president and CEO of AHF Products in February 2019, he announced “very aggressive plans” for the company that had been spun off from Armstrong Flooring the year prior. The acquisition of LM Flooring specifically expands AHF Products with respect to popular formats.

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 9, 2014

I remember the days when it was all done by hand…I don’t have the courage to throw out the old water color renderings I did in college (many moons ago). I literally have years of floor plans in AutoCad and a few in sketchUp but hopefully one day we will build something. We already have the land in southern Az.

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