Floor Covering News

JANUARY 18, 2022

Waregem, Belgium—Unilin Technologies said it will launch SquareClic, a technology that ensures a perfectly aligned floor throughout the whole installation, at TISE 2022. Due to standard production tolerances, square floorboards almost always show deviations in their format,” said Floris Koopmans, sales director IP.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 14, 2022

Mohawk and Engineered Floors were the big winners in FCNews ’ Award of Excellence 2022 competition, with Mohawk winning Best Overall in the over-$5 billion category and Engineered Floors taking honors in the under-$5 billion category. Among the other 21 winners in the Award of Excellence 2022 were first-timers along with perennial champions.

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JUNE 24, 2022

Tile of Spain hosted a group of editors, designers and architects for this year’s Passport to Creativity tour, which took place in Valencia June 13-17, 2022. LIVING CERAMICS – Kendo Light. State of the Industry. APAVISA – Salon. BESTILE – Onyx-Hex. Enigmatic Luxury.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 18, 2022

By Megan Salzano-Birch—Las Vegas— Coverings 2022 was a showcase in innovative product design and immersive technology, which is thriving within the ceramic and stone category today despite obvious obstacles. Coverings 2022 saw 750 exhibitors and more than 30 countries represented on the show floor. Ceramic market update.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

To honor these businesses, FCNews is publishing its inaugural Retailers of the Year 2022 issue. FCNews ’ Retailers of the Year 2022 issue features some of the industry’s most accomplished dealers from influential buying groups as well as smaller retailers with no group affiliation. Empire Hardwood Flooring. North Hollywood, Calif.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The past two-plus years have shown the strength of the tile industry as consumers flocked to the ceramic tile aisle for their home renovation needs in droves during the height of the pandemic. As the category continued to boom due to the pandemic, consumers looked to fill their homes with ceramic both indoors and outside. told FCNews.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Los Angeles—Emser Tile announced its complete suite of products with a new 2022/2023 tile product catalog , available both in print and online. It’s truly inspiring to see so many facets of our business align with the launch of this year’s product catalog,” said Mara Villanueva-Heras, vice president of marketing.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 10, 2024

In this role, Tippett will assume sales responsibility and reporting for Stanton’s hard surface business. “We’re thrilled to have Deb join the Stanton team and confident that her experience, leadership and passion for the business, coupled with Stanton’s seasoned, hardworking sales team, will accomplish the goals set forth.” .

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2022

It’s this disruptive strategy that has helped put Cali on the 2022 Industry Disruptors list. What’s more, this increased resilience was designed to outperform both v-groove and traditional ceramic grout applications in terms of wear and tear. We have grown our hard surface segment to represent over 15% of our business by Q4 2022.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2022

The Ceramic Tile Education Foundation (CTEF) will raffle off an original Angie Halford Ré American Flag mosaic, donated by Ron Nash, president and COO, North America, Laticrete International Inc., on Thursday, April 7, 2022, during Coverings, the Global Tile & Stone Experience, in Las Vegas, Nevada, in NTCA Booth N2862 at 3 p.m.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 20, 2021

.— Coverings , the preeminent event for the ceramic tile and natural stone industry in North America, has released a lineup of featured conference sessions for Coverings 2022. Coverings 2022 learning opportunities will focus on the key tenets of “Health, Wellness and Environment;” “Timeless Luxury;” and “Outdoor Living Spaces.”.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 24, 2022

The 13th annual Total Solutions Plus will again be hosted here November 6-8, 2022. The purpose of event is to annually bring the ceramic tile industry together to network and learn from each other. Total Solutions Plus said it is thrilled to be in back in the desert in 2022, after hosting a successful conference there in 2016.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The nominations should contain category, product name and one paragraph describing the innovation, why it is important/relevant to retailers and consumers, and how dealers can parlay this information into profit at point of sale. Entries must currently be in the market and have been introduced in calendar year 2022. Practicality.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 5, 2022

Preliminary FCNews research shows the commercial flooring market totaled $6.488 billion in sales in 2021, an uptick of 6% over 2020. Certain Main Street/ Commercial segments, like education, performed very well in 2021 and into 2022,” noted Quentin Quathamer, director of Main Street commercial, Shaw Industries. Hard surfaces shine.

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Ceramics of Italy

MARCH 18, 2024

Last February, Atlas Concorde received the Export Capital award for the second consecutive year and was recognised as the top company in the Export Excellence category for the ceramics and marble sector. The challenging international scenario makes this performance all the more gratifying. “We

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We’re thrilled to have Jamann join Stanton and confident that his expertise, leadership and passion for the business, coupled with Stanton’s seasoned, hard-working sales team will accomplish this goal.” In this position Stepp will assume overall responsibility and reporting for Stanton’s entire hard surface business.

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Ceramics of Italy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

ABK Group, a company specialising in the ceramic sector with a revenue of €233 million in 2022, is continuing its growth and expansion strategy following the acquisition of Gardenia Orchidea and the French company Desvres two years ago. www.abk.it L'articolo ABK Group continues its investment programme proviene da ceramica.info.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Today it is a medium sized producer of porcelain tiles, and ceramic wall tiles, offering home owners and designers a wide range of contemporary solutions with its wide and diversified product portfolio. In 2022, Recer produced around 5 million sq. metres of tiles, achieving total sales of Euro 45.3

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Diary of a Tile Addict

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Today it is a medium sized producer of porcelain tiles, and ceramic wall tiles, offering home owners and designers a wide range of contemporary solutions with its wide and diversified product portfolio. In 2022, Recer produced around 5 million sq. metres of tiles, achieving total sales of Euro 45.3

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 7, 2022

Pompano, Florida—Portobello America has named Patti Smith-Connelly, a tile industry veteran, as commercial sales manager. “We’ve known Patti for a long time,” said vice president of sales, Mike Ward. “She embodies the professionalism we’ve been looking for.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Las Vegas—The resilient flooring category remains the top performer in the industry, overtaking the carpet category in dollars for the first time in 2022—by a whopping $1.3B. In fact, the rigid core subsegment alone outperformed carpet by $10M in 2022. Units might be flat. We intend, despite all that, to go on the offensive.”

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2022

What’s more, the 293-member group is poised to grow as six new members have joined since the beginning of 2022, while 65 prospects are being considered for inclusion. joining forces with Alliance Flooring in 2022 was not their first consideration. In each of their three years, sales have increased steadily.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 29, 2023

F or the second year running tile flooring experienced sales growth after its 2020 decline, which had been the category’s first decrease in several years. Tile flooring was up mid-double digits in dollars in 2022 compared to 2021’s high single-digit increase. However, the average selling price increased in 2022 from $1.24

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 18, 2023

The segment posted astronomical gains over the last several years, beating out every other flooring category in terms of growth as it nabbed share from carpet, hardwood, ceramic and laminate. March of 2022 was the first month our waterproof laminate out-sold SPC for us in our market,” Pacific Direct’s Van Raalten said.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 1, 2023

Michael Ward, vice president of sales, Portobello America, put it simply: “Everybody’s here. Tile market strengthens Much like most other flooring categories, the tile industry held its breath in 2022—unsure how the market might perform amid a questionable economy. to the highest number in history for the ceramic tile market: $4.42

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Once known exclusively as a supplier of nylon and tufted wool carpet, the company in the past few years has expanded into new fibers (polyester and decorative wool) and every hard surface category (excluding ceramic tile) while overcoming challenges related to Stainmaster’s departure from specialty retail.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 3, 2023

Following are the 2022 winners: Carpet. For retail sales associates, PFC is intended to be the easiest way to sell flooring—with confidence and simplicity. This increased resilience outperforms both v-groove and traditional ceramic grouts in terms of wear and tear. Premier Flooring Center. The Dixie Group. Statements 2.0.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In 2021, ceramic finally saw some relief as the category registered gains for the first time in two years. However, 2022 has challenged that growth as a rocky housing market and ongoing labor shortages take center stage. ceramic tile consumption was down 2% by volume throughout the second quarter of 2022 versus the same time last year.

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Ceramics of Italy

MARCH 17, 2021

As a result, the facility will begin producing larger sizes such as 80×80 cm, 60×120 cm and 20×120 cm and will increase its output from the current 5 million sqm per year to around 7 million sqm by the end of 2022. ” . . www.abk.it. L'articolo ABK Group completes acquisition in France proviene da ceramica.info.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Las Vegas— The International Surfaces Event has become a smaller player in the world of ceramic and porcelain tile of late—most likely due to the fact that Coverings is held a mere two months later. Daltile’s Shop by Look wall features palette boards with QR codes to help guide consumers through the sale.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 26, 2023

Reggie, Ken and Megan do an amazing job at running the wood, laminate, carpet and ceramic stats numbers through the wash multiple times. So a few years ago, I came up with a cockamamie idea: I’ll just call a few of the major players for stats and get their sales figures. We don’t include ceramic wall tile. It goes on and on.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 12, 2023

According to Patrick Warren, vice president of residential sales, dealer and showrooms, Daltile’s residential remodel business was up almost double digits in 2022, but Daltile Statements dealers outpaced that growth. “As At the same time, Daltile has built the merchandising so the retail sales associate can close that sale.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 13, 2022

D espite all the challenges facing the commercial contract market today—the residual effects of the pandemic, sky-high inflation, ongoing supply chain challenges and the war in Ukraine—key end-use sectors for commercial flooring are showing signs of recovery, stimulating hope that market conditions will improve in the second half of 2022.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 23, 2023

H ardwood may very well be the most aspirational flooring product (next to stone or ceramic tile). With this new finishing technology, we are able to apply a coating to the wood, seal the wood and then apply the Generations coating on top of it without changing the make-up of the look,” said Wade Bondrowski, Mercier’s director of sales, U.S.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 1, 2023

T he vast majority of hard surface manufacturers today—especially resilient suppliers—are investing heavily in floating, rigid-core products designed to compete with the likes of laminate, engineered hardwood and even ceramic tile. After all, rigid is on fire right now and companies are looking to strike while the iron is hot, so to speak.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

What’s more, this increased resilience outperforms both v-groove and traditional ceramic grouts in terms of wear and tear, facilitates the creation of staggered patterns and cuts total installation time in half. Tiles and planks with True Grout are very easy to install as well as replace, especially when compared to traditional ceramics.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Daltile’s new Defend is a distinct product line of high-performance ceramic tile featuring Microban technology, which will not wash off or wear away. suppliers are touting record-high sales in 2021 and expected ongoing growth as a result of changing consumer habits and a booming housing market —both spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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