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Crossville outlines 2020 tile recycling efforts

Floor Covering News

—Crossville has outlined its tile recycling efforts for the last year, and said it recycled 4,939,251 pounds of fired porcelain in 2020. Crushed porcelain toilets for tile production. The tile recycling initiatives are based on the company’s proprietary process for recycling fired porcelain products.

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STATS Commercial: Healthcare the bright spot in 2020

Floor Covering News

Quinn W hile some segments of the residential replacement market actually benefitted from consumers and homeowners quarantining in their residences during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the same cannot be said for the commercial sector. compared to 2019. Soft surface situation.

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Extra 2020 Tile Trends

Diary of a Tile Addict

To go with Tile Addict’s take on the 2020 trends is a little selection of additional elements that we may be seeing more of in the coming year. One trend that we are especially hoping will take off more in 2020 is coloured grout. With tile production becoming cleverer by day, we’re sure to see a whole lot more of it.

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Best of Surfaces honors excellence at TISE 2020

Floor Covering News

February 17/24, 2020: Volume 35, Issue 17. Las Vegas—Six manufacturers were voted best of class in the 2020 Best of Surfaces competition, a contest sponsored by Floor Covering News and Informa Exhibitions, which owns and operates The International Surface Event (TISE). RI DIGITAL. You can feel the difference.”. T ECHNOLOGY.

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NTCA names Brookes president, 2020 Tile Person of the Year

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—The National Tile Contractors Association (NTCA) recently named Martin Brookes its president for 2021 and 2022 and its 2020 Tile Person of the Year. The award has traditionally been given at the Coverings trade show but was canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “I

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Interface named to Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2020

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Atlanta—Interface has placed in Fast Company ’s prestigious annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2020. This innovative program ensures that every flooring product Interface sells—carpet, LVT and nora rubber sheets and tiles—is carbon neutral across the entire product lifecycle.

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Ceramic tile for safe and sustainable homes

Diary of a Tile Addict

Some VOCs emitted by non-ceramic building products can contribute to a wide variety of health problems and Sick Building Syndrome, according to various health experts. Cordoba by Metropolitan. Because ceramic tile is fired at extremely high temperatures, producing an inorganic material, it has zero VOCs. Ellis by Vitromex.