Floor Covering News

MARCH 8, 2021

and Asia (excluding Cambodia) and 3% across domestically produced solid hardwood. At AHF Products, we are committed to helping customers grow their business through superior service, high-quality products and high-style flooring at competitive prices,” said Chris King, vice president-sales.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 30, 2020

There are two ways to look at the flooring industry as a whole in 2019, depending on whether ones sees the glass as half full or half empty. On one hand, sales eclipsed the $23 billion mark for the first time since 2006. FCNews’ exclusive research reveals total 2019 flooring sales topped out at $23.07 billion and 19.07

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Floor Covering News

JULY 11, 2022

W hile some in the industry may remember Bella Flooring Group as a consortium of Chinese manufacturers tempered on inexpensive product and lackluster service, the newly rebranded and reinvigorated Bella has set its sights on supporting the needs of the retail community with innovative product lines, U.S. Dominie explained. Proving its worth.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Eight major hardwood flooring manufacturers are charter members of the Real Wood Coalition, a pro­motional campaign that is launching this month in part­nership with Floor Covering News. The issue for them is that there can be twice as many profit dollars in a hardwood sale than other categories. That’s not all. Renovating.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

AHF Products, with decades of experience in wood flooring design and innovation, said it opted to expand its Somerset facilities in large part because of the highly skilled workforce and the company’s strong commitment to U.S. and one in Cambodia. —AHF Products announced plans this month to invest $2.5 facility early in 2021.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

trade war with China—and the subsequent reciprocal tariffs and duties on both sides—has had tangible ramifications on the flooring industry. This is particularly evident in segments such as LVT, SPC and WPC , but also engineered hardwood and laminate flooring. Engineered Floors. The protracted U.S.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

When you’re a relatively small hard surface flooring supplier looking to stake your claim with flooring retailers, it’s better to be quick and agile. PDI, which also supplies SPC (from China) and engineered hardwood (from Cambodia), feels the time is right for waterproof laminate. If something isn’t working, we can switch gears.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 22, 2021

Citing rising costs in raw materials as well as container/port constraints, flooring manufac­turers have once again announced price hikes across sev­eral product categories. While other major suppliers declined to comment, flooring retailers surveyed by FCNews say their main suppliers have said they will increase prices.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

In this position, Bell will be responsible for global sales, product management, marketing, R&D and customer service. Bell is a veteran operational executive with over 30 years in wood products manufacturing and product development, five of which have been in flooring. Mountville, Pa.—AHF We are thrilled to have him on board.”.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Most industry observers equate AHF Products with storied brands such as Bruce, Hartco, Robbins, LM Flooring and a host of other notable hard surface lines. based FlorStar Sales, agreed. AHF Products is in the enviable position of having a stable of seven hardwood flooring manufacturing plants here in the U.S.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 30, 2023

After turning in a stellar performance in 2021 with growth rates in both sales and volume landing in the high double-digits, the U.S. hardwood flooring category took a big step back in 2022. Floor Covering News research shows hardwood flooring revenues fell 9.8% Last year, hardwood flooring accounted for 14.1%

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

There is no escaping it: 2020 is the year of COVID-19, and flooring distributors of all sizes dealt with the myriad effects—an abrupt shutdown that upended the second quarter followed by a resurgence. As 2020 winds down, the industry’s top wholesalers are looking for a strong finish to a challenging year. By Ken Ryan.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

T his time last year, the status of Armstrong Flooring (the company) was very much in question. By late spring of 2022, Armstrong Flooring filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. More importantly, AHF was awarded the rights to license the century-plus-old Armstrong Flooring brand name. This included three U.S.

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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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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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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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MAY 3, 2023

Many of the new Mirage hardwood flooring offerings for 2023 will be built on a new engineered platform. Furthermore, we also make our own plywood in Cambodia. Triangulo Hardwood Floors uses Brazilian pine that we sustainably manage on our own property in Brazil,” said Philip Key, the company’s vice president of sales and marketing.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Heading into 2023, suppliers were concerned that the hardwood flooring segment would continue to face intense pressure from competing categories such as resilient and laminate—products that increasingly mimic the visual characteristics of real wood but excel in areas such as waterproof performance and dent/scratch resistance. The upper end.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

L ike many hard surface segments that enjoyed robust growth in late 2020 through 2022, wood flooring certainly claimed its share of a healthy residential remodel business—particularly high-end products. director of sales, USA, Mercier Wood Flooring. director of sales, USA, Mercier Wood Flooring. Wade Bondrowski.

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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. By its count, about two-thirds of wood sales are residential replacement, with roughly one-third new construction.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 20, 2021

By Reginald Tucker The hardwood flooring category continued to feel the effects of the rising popularity of competing wood look-alike alternatives in 2020, as the hardwood segment took another hit for the second year running. of the total flooring market in 2020 in terms of dollars. sales, Mercier Wood Flooring. “We

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Floor Covering News

MAY 4, 2020

With the novel coronavirus dominating so much news coverage these days—and rightly so—it’s easy to forget that merely a year ago there was another issue consistently making headlines: tariffs on Chinese flooring products and the reciprocal, retaliatory hikes on American-made goods. over the next 12 months as it was the last 12 months.”.

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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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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

20, 2021, flooring industry leaders are mulling what impact President-elect Joe Biden and his policies might have on business. Stimulus was vital in a rapid restart of our economy and can only help again,” said Craig Phillips, president, Carpet Country and Barrington Carpet & Flooring Design, Twinsburg, Ohio. By Ken Ryan.

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