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Wellmade: A rigid core pioneer

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The Cartersville plant was built in 2020 with equipment arriving from China in February 2021. By November, product was rolling off the lines for testing. Our product is harder—a 1.9-per-cubic-meter It’s also a closed cell material, so water can’t enter the product and it mills better. We knew we had a winner.

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Piet Dossche officially inducted into the WFCA Hall of Fame

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He saw how the underlying technology was being utilized in China to produce paneling, and that spawned the creation of what would eventually become COREtec. Dossche also used the opportunity to recognize all those who had a hand in the success of USFloors, the company he founded in a spare bedroom back in 2001.