Architectural Ceramics

MARCH 18, 2019

In 2019, it’s easy to see that technology and social media are a part of daily life. To view more neutral but on-trend color options from our Charme Collection, visit our website’s Product Page , or download a Data Sheet here. Want weekly updates about Architectural Ceramics and our product lines?

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 7, 2020

2019 was a landmark year for Interface and its sustainability journey. The company’s 2019 EcoMetrics include: Energy efficiency at carpet manufacturing sites has improved by 46% since 1996. 46% of materials in the flooring products Interface sells are from recycled or bio-based sources. Atlanta, Ga.—2019

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Dalton—Midwest, a wholesale building products distributor covering Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and Nevada, is adding a new line of flooring from Welspun Flooring to its expansive offering. Midwest supplies a wide range of building products including flooring, countertops, cabinets and supplies.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

T he waterproof flooring story isn’t just about the latest rigid core/SPC offerings hitting the market. FCNews research showed resilient flooring was up 21.3% in 2020 vs. 2019. FCNews research showed resilient flooring was up 21.3% in 2020 vs. 2019.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 27, 2020

Solon, Ohio—Tarkett has released its 2019 Corporate Social & Environmental Responsibility (CSR) report , now known as the declaration of extra-financial performance (DPEF). has reduced water usage by 86% in absolute value between 2016 and 2019.

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Tile of Spain USA

OCTOBER 19, 2018

As one of the major world powers in ceramic tile production and export, Spain is a regular participant in the show. Over 90 Spanish ceramic manufacturers showcased their latest collections as a preview of what is to come for the 2019 year. A Return to Geometry. … Continue Reading.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 14, 2020

Novalis remains on track to take rigid core production stateside in the third quarter. We will be making new products and finding new technologies to build on existing products here. Ehrlich noted that products coming out of this facility will not cannibalize anything Novalis is doing in China. By Steven Feldman.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 14, 2021

By Ken Ryan—For many flooring retailers, 2021 represented their best sales year ever , and it’s no wonder as the product pipeline continued to deliver innovative offerings that were in high demand. Following are some of the top must-have product introductions of 2021, along with their key selling points. Create Flooring: Lofts.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 22, 2020

said it recycled 7,951,271 pounds of fired porcelain in 2019, bringing the company’s cumulative recycling total to nearly 134 million pounds since the 2009 launch of the Tile Take-Back program and subsequent TOTO USA recycling partnership. Net waste consumption is achieved by using more waste than is created during production.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 4, 2024

Las Vegas—AHF Products has a newly imagined exhibit space (booth #2447) for the International Surfaces Event, being held here January 24-26, 2024, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. AHF acquired LM Flooring in 2019 , followed by the Parterre and American OEM brands in 2021 and then the Armstrong Flooring brand in 2022.

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Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

MAY 31, 2019

We hope you like the products we recommend. The 2019 U.S. Meanwhile, granite continues a multi-year decline (40%, 34% and 30% in 2017, 2018 and 2019 studies, respectively). Shades of gray in the cabinets, backsplash, ceiling and floors. Engineered wood can be used on the floors and cabinets.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 17, 2023

“As an organization, we are more optimistic about 2023 as a whole now—after Q1—than we were going into the year,” said Casey Dillabaugh, president of Boise, Idaho-based Dillabaugh’s Flooring America, echoing a sentiment shared by others. Cautious optimism most accurately depicts the mood for many flooring retailers in the industry.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 12, 2019

9/16, 2019: Volume 35, Issue 12 By Ken Ryan From splintered barnwood boards that had long since eroded, to sleek modern the stone visuals, flooring manufacturers pulled out all the stops in 2019 to deliver uniquely different products designed to attract consumers and boost margins for their retail partners.

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Garden State Tile Blog

APRIL 4, 2019

Dramatic, yet undeniably sophisticated, marble look porcelain in 2019 is stronger than ever. Check out Roma Floor and Wall Tile by Garden State Tile. Floors, walls and backsplashes become a homeowner’s canvas this year with graphically inspired shapes and textures. Unique Shapes & Textures. Parquet Porcelain. Bold Colors.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 27, 2019

2, 2019: Volume 35, Issue 11. Behind every great carpet is an innovation that went into the design and engineering of the product to create something unique and different. The range of products covered encompass wool, water-safe fabrics such as clothing and furniture, and automobile upholstery. By Ken Ryan.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 22, 2020

Charlestown Pine, Wellmade’s waterproof vinyl flooring, was granted a patent exclusion in the HDPC rigid core category. Wellmade Performance Flooring has been granted tariff exclusions by the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) on its Chinese-made LVT products. By Ken Ryan. These exclusions, retroactive to Sept.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 6, 2021

While the flooring industry has been a “man’s world” for decades, women are rising in the ranks and accomplishing incredible things that have helped move the industry forward. Cheryl Acierno has been engaged in the floor covering industry for her entire career, owning Acierno & Company for the past 21 years. Cheryl Acierno.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 24, 2021

laminate flooring market that hadn’t occurred since 2015— the category actually grew in terms of both sales and volume. FCNews research pegged laminate flooring sales at the first point of distribution in the U.S. increase over 2019. of the total flooring market in 2019. of total flooring sales and 5.6%

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

November 26/December 3, 2018: Volume 34, Issue 12 By Nicole Murray Laticrete is preparing to showcase its breadth of products at The International Surface Event (TISE) 2019 in Las Vegas. Following is a preview: Laticrete Strata_Heat is an electric radiant floor heating system designed to go under tile and stone flooring.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 24, 2019

Luxor by Aparici Miami- Tile of Spain, the international brand representing 125 ceramic tile manufacturers belonging to the Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturer's Association (ASCER), exhibited a wide variety of new product innovations and trends from Spanish tile manufacturers at Coverings 2019.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 8, 2022

A HF Products’ $107 million purchase of Armstrong Flooring was finalized on July 26, bringing to close a tenuous period of negotiations over the past few weeks. The decision to purchase certain assets of Armstrong Flooring keeps the venerable, century-old brand viable while simultaneously bolstering AHF’s burgeoning portfolio.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

APRIL 5, 2020

The respected German trade magazine Fliesen & Platten has been calling on its readers to choose the products of the year since 2011. This means that this award is not decided by a small jury, as is normally the case, but by a large number of professionals who work with the product on a daily basis. Kiano by Agrob Buchtal.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 4, 2023

since 2019 to ramp up its domestic manufacturing. The waterproof label has transcended its rigid core roots and is now touted across a variety of flooring constructions—from SPC to tile and even hardwood and underlayment. What’s more, much of the production of these waterproof products is happening right here in the U.S.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 15, 2024

Virginia Tile, a provider of tile, customer service and installation products, has enhanced its team with the promotion of Sean Cilona to the position of vice president of product and marketing. Cilona’s promotion to vice president of product and marketing emphasizes his leadership and strategic contributions.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 30, 2020

There are two ways to look at the flooring industry as a whole in 2019, depending on whether ones sees the glass as half full or half empty. FCNews’ exclusive research reveals total 2019 flooring sales topped out at $23.07 Flooring currently sits just 4.6% On the other hand, the 0.4% That’s the good news.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

vs. the same timeframe in 2019, according to TCNA findings. from 3Q 2019 YTD. from 3Q 2019 YTD. The successful trade remedy case against China, for dumping and subsidizing products, resulted in 562.52% to 689.5% by volume vs. 3Q 2019 YTD, a decline of 416 million square feet. from 3Q 2019 YTD. share of U.S.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 11, 2021

Now is the time to delve deeper than ever into consumers’ rapidly shifting preferences and priorities and to develop new products, services and even business models to meet those needs. I anticipate that the flooring industry as a whole is poised for a period of solid growth over the next five-plus years. SOLID GROWTH AHEAD.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 24, 2023

Mohawk was the only flooring manufacturer among the businesses recognized for making the greatest reductions in their carbon footprint. We are continuing to identify new and innovative ways to lower greenhouse gas emissions while creating sustainable products that improve homes and public spaces in approximately 170 countries.”

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Floor Covering News

MAY 1, 2023

Attendance at Coverings 2023 was 20% higher than the 2019 event. Coverings 2023, the tile industry’s premier North American trade show, took place here last month, April 18-21, to resounding industry excitement and palpable energy across the show floor. I really like to see people in the booths experiencing the product.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 3, 2021

There are a number of companies currently building facilities in the Southeast to manufacture rigid core flooring, but few are of the size and scope of Huali Floors—a family-owned business that was started by Huashou Yuan in Taizhou, China, back in 2002. manufactured Huali products rolling off the line in the second quarter of 2021.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 27, 2021

—Registration for the 2021 National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA) Wood Flooring Expo is now open. The NWFA and the Coverings International Tile and Stone Exhibition organizers said they will be co-locating to simultaneously bring attendees the NWFA’s 2021 Wood Flooring Expo and Coverings 2021. Live demonstrations.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 8, 2019

Jiaxing, China—CFL Flooring has launched Tenacity, a new waterproof engineered stone product that will be on display at Domotex and Surfaces 2019. Tenacity features the advantages of a newly developed rigid mineral stone core. It is waterproof, rigid, stable and wear resistant.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 3, 2021

based flooring manufacturers who continue to ramp up domestic efforts but also overseas suppliers as they build production facilities in the U.S. Engineered Floors completed its massive SAM extrusion plant in Dalton in 2020. We see [in the future] most products within the LVT category being produced in the U.S.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Welch Company, a division of Center Rock Capital Partners’ Merit Distribution Group, has acquired assets from one of the industry’s top flooring distributors. Welch said it has now acquired the Indiana, Western Tennessee, Kentucky and Ohio territories—which also includes facilities—of Gilford-Johnson Flooring, effective Sept.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 25, 2021

FCNews research shows commercial flooring revenues (including specified business as well as Main Street sales) totaled $6.134 billion last year—a falloff of 11.1% compared to 2019. The corporate market took the biggest hit in 2020 as its share fell from 42% of sales in 2019 to approximately 38% last year. in 2019 to 4.9%

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Hicks, having just crunched the numbers, said attendance for Surfaces 2023 was up “10%- 11%” over 2019 and 2020—the last shows prior to the full onslaught of COVID-19. That was true this year as every major flooring supplier took out booth space, much to the delight of retailers who made the trip. “The The future looks good,” he said.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Dalton—Novalis Innovative Flooring released its 2021 Sustainability Report, an important milestone in the manufacturer’s ongoing mission toward creating products that keep humans healthy and the earth habitable. A DPP provides useful product- specific information in an easy-to-use format. The full report can be found here.

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