Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2022

Over the past several weeks, the world rallied around sanctions and trade restrictions against Russia. These economic restrictions are unprecedented, especially when weighing both the size of Russia’s economy and its interwoven ties to other countries. These bulk shipments can reduce costs, both in production and freight.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 13, 2021

Wim Coppens, vice president, said he is looking forward to announcing multiple new products and investments through 2021 as part of on-going growth. The purpose is to enhance production capabilities and transition towards more sustainable resilient and hard flooring solutions. Wim Coppens. Over the past five years, B.I.G.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

JUNE 13, 2012

My client is Russian, and in Russia they really appreciate tile. This fireplace brought back [to her] her lifestyle of who she was as she grew up in Russia. Last night, I had to go to Lowe’s to pick up some paint, and while I was there, I gravitated toward the tile department, to see how they merchandised the product.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 29, 2022

Case in point is AHF Products , which has dramatically increased its presence at the NWFA convention since its spinoff from Armstrong Flooring several years ago. Russian birch is commonly used as the core material in many engineered hardwood flooring products. Boen, for instance, sources predominantly from Europe but not Russia. “We

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 3, 2022

These include rising inflation , higher raw materials pricing amid inconsistent availability and, now, a war in Ukraine that has threatened the supply of so many goods and services, including Russia-sourced birch lumber that goes into the core layer of many engineered hardwood flooring products sold globally today.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 18, 2024

Greg Wrenn, vice president of product and brand, told FCNews that it’s a unique partnership with retailers that resonated. “It In the end, we build product to make somebody’s space beautiful, attainable and something they can be proud of. They’re looking for one thing: a product that solves a problem for their lifestyle.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2022

FCNews’ fourth annual Industry Disrupters issue features innovative players and thinkers who are changing the game in terms of product enhancements, technological breakthroughs or simply radical new ways of doing business. AHF Products. Cali Floors. Disrupting through distribution. From takeover target to blazing the acquisition trail.

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The A to Z of Building

JANUARY 20, 2015

RusForest AB (publ), a Swedish forestry company with operations in Russia, has engaged AS Hekotek, a mechanical engineering company, to build a wood pellet production facility at the Company’s.'

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 4, 2022

When EF launched with solution-dyed poly, you told me this product was going to be the best value for the dollar in the industry. Best product out there for the money? The best product, less expensive, better value, more competitive. Thoughts on Invista getting out of fiber production? Holds on everything we do.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Policymakers need to focus on alleviating production bottlenecks, particularly as it relates to lumber and other building materials.”. Higher mortgage rates will slow home buying demand over the course of 2022 and the Russia-Ukraine crisis will add short-term volatility to the bond market.”.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The new ProSource of Knoxville showroom offers thousands of flooring, kitchen and bath products to local home improvement trade professionals including all the benefits ProSource provides its Trade Pro Members. Originally from Morocco, Jaouhari pursued his higher education in Russia and then Xavier University in Cincinnati.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 1, 2022

We were working around the clock in 2021 to bring down costs and maximize productivity to minimize the burden on our customers.”. Rigid core and vinyl-based products took share as end users looked to lower costs and speed installations,” Emser’s Weaver said. The Russia/Ukraine war has put significant cost pressures on ceramic tile.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 3, 2023

Despite ongoing and persistent pressures from competing, look-alike products, softness in key end-use market segments and overall pricing pressures, the hardwood flooring sector continues to demonstrate why it has maintained its staying power despite real challenges. Pictured is Dreamville oak.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 8, 2022

The good news is improvement in raw material availability—in part due to a lessening of demand and greater reliance on East Coast ports—has dramatically reduced production times by as much as five months. Although product flow has significantly improved, we are definitely not out of the woods yet,” Raj Shah, president of MSI, told FCNews.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

As a result, hardwood flooring suppliers across the globe find themselves scrambling to get their hands on alternative materials as Russia and Ukraine—the primary exporters of birch plywood cores—have effectively vanished from the supply chain. It makes for a more stable and more sustainable product.”. Based in Vigo, Spain, with U.S.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 13, 2022

Visitors to Indusparquet’s booth at the 2022 Wood Floor Expo expressed great interest in Brazilian oak flooring products in particular. The plan is to expand, but the truth is that’s a commodity product and we’re not really a commodity company.”. That’s the only place we pull product from—managed forests.”.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 6, 2022

While ITR Economics attests to the fact that first quarter gross domestic production (GDP) was down 0.36% from the fourth quarter of ’21, the firm believes there were mitigating circumstances. industrial production keeps on rising. industrial production and to thousands of other data series that span most industries and most economies.

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Kitchen and Residential Design

MARCH 11, 2012

He and his family barely escaped Russia with their clothes on their backs. Sloppy, kitchy and for those who take an affront to the Made in China products - um well this is where to find them. Homepath Products. Reply Delete The Decor Girl 23 March, 2012 09:31 Thank you for calling out Anthropologie. ► January. (12).

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

This year’s competition saw a record number of entries (408) and in all, over 29 countries were represented – including Japan, France, Australia, UK, South Korea, Russia, Brazil and many more (21 more to be specific.) I try and keep things light and share a thing or two about what I think I know.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 26, 2015

is a design and manufacturing company specializing in sculpture, architectural features and commercial products Joe McCall – A noted and reputable designer with over 23 AIA award-winning buildings to his credit, there are so many accolades that you can share about Joe that they are too numerous to list.

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