Floor Covering News

APRIL 18, 2024

Indoors. Outdoors. Floors. Walls. Pool surrounds. Countertops. Ceramic Tile is the most versatile product in the industry with the ability to clad nearly every surface in the home, proponents say. Unlike its other hard surface (and soft surface) brethren, it’s not relegated to any specific space. Suppliers are making it easy for consumers to mix and match their styles, too, with new technology and design-forward products meant to flow from one surface to another.

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Why Tile

APRIL 18, 2024

The Components of Ceramic Tile Ceramic tile is composed of a range of naturally-occurring minerals found in abundance all over the world. Each ingredient of ceramic tile has a unique technical property and undergoes robust testing by a raw material supplier to ensure a high level of quality for the long-lasting performance of the fired,… The post What is Ceramic Tile Made Of?

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 18, 2024

Turnhout, Belgium— i4F has joined forces with the Akgün Group-Duratiles to bring a clickable floating floor installation system to the world of ceramics. The company also announced Akgün as the first licensee of its i4F Ceramic Click technology. “Our collaboration with i4F provides us with the perfect launch pad for our new DuraClick tiles,” said Murat Sencok, general coordinator, Akgün Group-Duratiles. “For years, the market has been asking for the beauty of real ceramics with the f

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The A to Z of Building

APRIL 18, 2024

Researchers investigated the optimization of self-healing concrete (SHC) properties by employing metaheuristic techniques alongside response surface methodology (RSM). They explored gray wolf optimization (GWO), multi-verse optimization (MVO), moth fly optimization (MFO), particle swarm optimization (PSO), and whale optimization algorithm (WOA) to predict mechanical properties based on bacteria concentration.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 18, 2024

Waregem, Belgium—Wuxi Boda Bamboo and Wood Industry Co., Ltd. (Wuxi Boda)—in the wake of Novalis—has started the mass production of Unilin’s Matte Bevel technology. The adoption of the Matte Bevel technology aims to raise the bar for Wuxi Boda’s SPC flooring by achieving a more natural and realistic matte bevel. “We are very excited about the adoption of the Matte Bevel technology,” said Sun Guoqiang, CEO of Wuxi Boda.

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