Floor Covering News

MAY 3, 2021

based flooring manufacturers who continue to ramp up domestic efforts but also overseas suppliers as they build production facilities in the U.S. Engineered Floors completed its massive SAM extrusion plant in Dalton in 2020. Shaw continues to invest in domestic manufacturing across all flooring categories. By Ken Ryan.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 10, 2019

Dallas—The International Surface Event (TISE): SURFACES | StonExpo/Marmomac | TileExpo, the largest North American floor covering, stone, and tile industry event, is in development on a surface and design trade event in Asia for late 2019.

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Rubble Tile

OCTOBER 14, 2020

They are passionate about ensuring their products are natural, high quality, and ethically sourced from Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Rubble Tile is thrilled to introduce our newest vendor, Zen Paradise. On the many islands where Zen Paradise’s materials are found, nature produces renewable and abundant.

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Architectural Ceramics

AUGUST 25, 2017

This collection’s features make it an easy option to mix and match with other natural stone or porcelain tile: 3″ x 6″ field tile with coordinating bullnose and trim profiles. 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

MAY 15, 2023

B arcelona , S pain — Unilin Technologies, the IP and technology arm of Mohawk Industries, and its digital printing partner Barberán recently hosted an open house here where the two companies showcased the technical aspects of digital printing for the flooring industry, particularly for SPC and laminate. It needs to feel like a real hardwood.”

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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. “ White wall and floor tiles are still the predominant tiles sold in the USA, and most come from China primarily comprised of mosaics , white subway tiles , and larger thicker white wall tiles. Here it is.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 12, 2021

By Reginald Tucker F rom its inception in Europe in the early 1990s to its highly touted debut in the North American market later that same decade, laminate flooring provided a durable, tough, hard surface flooring option for consumers looking for alternatives to more costly options such as hardwood, tile and stone.

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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

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. including tile, stone and other flooring.”. Residential accounts for about 68.2%

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Cement Style

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

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. An example of new cement tile are the floors through out the new El Blok Hotel in Esperanza.

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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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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. We bought a lot of stuff whether we got a good deal or we will never know, I think we need to stick to negotiating tile and stones prices…. Thursday, June 4th.

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Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

MARCH 26, 2016

These toilets have temperature-controlled water, spritzing wands and automatic dryers (already in use and common in Asia). Sleek, modern tub faucets, many with pipes that come up from the floor and pour over into the tub. Rectangular is sleek and modern, as are materials such as carved stone and copper.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 29, 2021

Republic Floor has come a long way in six and a half years. Republic bills itself as a logistics company that happens to sell floors. Most products use limestone, which is a very soft stone. Many times, even though it’s supposed to be 50% stone powders, 50% plastic, I see cores that have maybe 10% or 20% stone powder in it.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 6, 2021

The list includes familiar names to the flooring industry—executives and CEOs—as well as those flying under the radar and even some with no connection to flooring. Two individuals who have played a key role in the flooring industry are Barbara Stroup and Lori Kisner, managing partners of Market Maker Events (MME).

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 6, 2021

The list includes familiar names to the flooring industry—executives and CEOs—as well as those flying under the radar and even some with no connection to flooring. Two individuals who have played a key role in the flooring industry are Barbara Stroup and Lori Kisner, managing partners of Market Maker Events (MME).

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Decorator on Demand

AUGUST 16, 2011

They are large embroidered textiles originally from Central Asia. Walls of Stone. Eldorado Stone. (1). floor molding. (1). flooring tiles. (1). hardwood floors. (1). stone veneers. (1). stone walls. (1). Input Form. Tuesday, August 16, 2011. Suzanis, Suzanis, SUZANIS! This Stairway IS Heaven.

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