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Latest wood floors run the wide/long gamut

Floor Covering News

Suppliers are investing in new technologies to make wood floors more durable and, yes, water resistant, to compete with the likes of SPC. I n the battle to reclaim market share from look-alike categories, hardwood suppliers are rolling out an array of new wood floors designed to pique the interest of retailers as well as consumers.

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STATS: Wood finds silver lining amid challenges

Floor Covering News

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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Locking systems tout improved functionality

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T he earliest iterations of locking systems were mainly designed to facilitate an essential function: install the greatest amount of panels in the shortest amount of time with the least amount of mess possible. It’s one of the best flooring systems available in the market today,” he said. market nearly 30 years ago.

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Award of Excellence 2022 awards winners

Floor Covering News

Mohawk and Engineered Floors were the big winners in FCNews ’ Award of Excellence 2022 competition, with Mohawk winning Best Overall in the over-$5 billion category and Engineered Floors taking honors in the under-$5 billion category. Engineered Floors, meanwhile, was victorious in Group A for carpet. Garden City, N.Y.—Mohawk

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Surfaces ’22: Tech innovators help suppliers elevate their game

Floor Covering News

Las Vegas—They don’t manufacture or distribute any of the products that floor covering retailers sell. Floors and walls enhanced with True Grout technology not only look like real ceramic, but improve on the real thing by delivering stronger tiles and planks enabling greater design possibilities in any room,” said John Rietveldt, CEO.

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A Clean Slate: How Rough Slate Can Have a Clean Aesthetic

Architectural Ceramics

They produce and export 90 percent of the region’s natural slate used for roofing or flooring. The world’s second-largest producer and exporter of slate, takes us to South America. Designer Spaces. Using in-floor heating warms the tile in a space where you often walk barefoot.

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Wood: Anatomy of a winning supplier

Floor Covering News

In the hardwood flooring sector —arguably the most aspirational flooring segment—there are also scores of both domestic and international suppliers vying for market share. A prime example is Boa-Franc, maker of the Mirage brand of hardwood floors—a name synonymous with quality.