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Industry Disrupters 2022: Shattering the status quo

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What’s more, this increased resilience was designed to outperform both v-groove and traditional ceramic grout applications in terms of wear and tear. Even before Russia invaded Ukraine, oil and gas prices were on the rise as demand for fuel oil and other energy products outstripped tight global supplies. in 2020 and 4.9%

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Stats 2021: Laminate picks up right where it left off in 2020

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in 2016; and 6.6% That puts the category behind resilient (53.6%), ceramic (19.6%) and hardwood (17%) with respect to dollars. Here, laminate accounts for roughly 10% of hard surface volume sold, surpassed, again, by resilient (29.2%) and ceramic (12.3%). In terms of sales, laminate represented just 4.9% Channel segments shift.

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