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JUNE 20, 2022

Chicago—AHF Products showcased its newly expanded and comprehensive commercial flooring portfolio here last week at NeoCon 2022. According to the company, the revolutionary, low-maintenance VBT product offers superior scratch, stain and scuff resistance without polish, reducing the total cost of ownership over the life of the floor.

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JULY 27, 2022

Philadelphia Commercial, leading Main Street brand of Shaw , launched its 2022 Phase II soft surface introductions, including the elegant Redefined Luxury Collection. All styles are available in 18 colors. This style adds the ability to incorporate a graphic accent with organic stripes of tonal color. Dalton, Ga.— Intermingle.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

FCNews ‘ Hardwood Selling Guide 2022 is here and it is chock-full of must-read content for every flooring dealer, distributor and RSA in the flooring industry. T here are several key factors RSAs should consider when recommending a particular hardwood flooring style or type.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

F amily owned and operated since the founding of its parent company, Pelican Creations, nearly 25 years ago, Pelican Creations Home has made a name for itself in the ever-crowded flooring market by offering a variety of popular product categories and exceptional customer service to its retail partners. Customers react.

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MAY 1, 2023

.— 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. Heinold agreed it wasn’t just about the numbers but the vibrant energy being felt throughout the show floor. “As We’re thrilled with the turnout.”

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JANUARY 3, 2023

These awards honor groundbreaking ideas and industry-changing concepts that have the potential to impact the way flooring is manufactured, promoted and sold. Following are the 2022 winners: Carpet. Premier Flooring Center. Välinge’s premium rigid core floor is a game changer in rigid core flooring. The Dixie Group.

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MARCH 23, 2023

H ardwood may very well be the most aspirational flooring product (next to stone or ceramic tile). Examples include hybrid floors such as GeoWood from Cali. While some waterproof wood floors feature hybrid technologies or alternative cores, others utilize special edge treatments and finishes to keep water on the surface of the planks.

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APRIL 29, 2022

Made in USA 2022: Domestic update. By Megan Salzano-Birch—Across all flooring categories suppliers are ramping up their domestic production to meet the needs of their customer base and consumers across the country. One hundred percent of our solid wood flooring has been—and still is—made right here in the U.S.

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MARCH 16, 2023

laminate flooring category has been well documented. This phenomenon forced specialty retailers and distributors to fill the void with domestically produced laminate flooring. This phenomenon forced specialty retailers and distributors to fill the void with domestically produced laminate flooring. T he resurgence of the U.S.

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JULY 11, 2022

Show organizers confirmed attendance at NeoCon 2022 was higher than in 2021, at about 40,000. Chicago— NeoCon 2022, held here last month, was abuzz with optimism as commercial flooring suppliers touted rebounding sales and specifications across key commercial segments in 2022. Commercial’s comeback.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Carrollton, Texas— LM Flooring has announced its largest product launch in the brand’s 20-year history with four new collections as well as extensions to four of its most popular lines, totaling 55 new SKUs launching in the fall. The Reserve and The Glenn offer the same colors and proprietary reactive staining techniques.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Las Vegas—They don’t manufacture or distribute any of the products that floor covering retailers sell. The grout is applied at the factory via the addition of a colored wear layer between the de?cor Many of these time-saving/game-changing technology innovations were on full display at Surfaces as companies like i4F, Unilin and Va?

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

—During Edge Summit , set for December 12-15, 2022, at Gaylord Opryland here, attendees will get a first look at Mohawk’s expanded proprietary Signature Technology , which will be available across all three master brands: Mohawk, Pergo and Karastan. As a market leader, Mohawk is positioned to revolutionize and raise design standards.”.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

“Introduced with overwhelming success at our 2022 Mohawk Momentum Roadshow, Signature Technology was a show-stopper for retailers who sell RevWood Premier,” said Seth Arnold, Mohawk’s vice president of marketing, hard surface. As a market leader, Mohawk is positioned to revolutionize and raise design standards.”. Calhoun, Ga.—Mohawk

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JANUARY 17, 2023

Eternity Flooring Ecoessent waterproof laminate floors continue to be a hit with retailers. S ome hard surface suppliers sought to cash on in the suddenly resurgent laminate flooring category as a result of difficulty in sourcing rigid core products from overseas—a consequence of the pandemic. And good looking, too, apparently.

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JUNE 13, 2022

Chicago— NeoCon 2022 takes place here this week at the Merchandise Mart to showcase the latest in commercial design across industry categories. Following is a preview of some of the new product innovations set to launch today at NeoCon 2022. The Ava by Novalis brand will highlight its 2TRZO at NeoCon 2022.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

It is said to feature the highest level of signature design, texture and color detail exclusively for resilient flooring. Launched in 2022, Signature Technology was just the beginning. The 75 layers of texture are transferred to each flooring plank. With Signature HDX, we are about 15 years ahead of the industry.

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JULY 17, 2023

Suppliers are investing in new technologies to make wood floors more durable and, yes, water resistant, to compete with the likes of SPC. I n the battle to reclaim market share from look-alike categories, hardwood suppliers are rolling out an array of new wood floors designed to pique the interest of retailers as well as consumers.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

Mannington Commercial’s Open Range, a hard-working rubber plank flooring collection, was named a Nightingale Awards winner at the 2022 Healthcare Design Expo and Conference. Open Range received the Gold designation in the flooring hard surfaces category. Calhoun, Ga.—Mannington x 42 plank format and 1/8 thickness.

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JULY 14, 2022

in Q1 2022. Consumers crave premium style and design in a quality product they can invest in and live on for years to come,” said Natalie Cady, director of premium brands residential channel strategy for Shaw Floors. R esidential carpet sales grew an impressive 17.2% Nuckols, president of the residential division of The Dixie Group.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

By Ken Ryan B ehind every successful floor covering retailer is a supplier—or core group of vendors—with a vested interest in the health and vitality of that retailer. They embody the Dixie culture: understanding that our business starts with our customers.” —Jason McSwain, McSwain Carpets & Floors, Cincinnati. “We

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MAY 17, 2022

By Reginald Tucker—After several years of losing market share to wood-look products, wood flooring is regaining momentum. That’s according to research conducted by the National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA), which estimates solid wood floors saw a 20% increase in 2021, ending the year with the highest share rate since 2007.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

the flooring industry’s largest merchandising and digital marketing rollout that includes more than 8 million product SKUs and a completely integrated digital platform. will arrive at Carpet One Floor & Home showrooms as Room by Room and at Flooring America and Flooring Canada showrooms as Room to Explore, beginning in April 2023.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Mohawk has introduced Signature Technology, which is said to achieve a wood floor that is indistinguishable from natural hardwood. RevWood Premier will be the best looking, most waterproof, highest-performing wood floor at a price consumers will value and a margin retailers will love. Calhoun, Ga.—Mohawk

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MAY 18, 2022

To celebrate the grand opening, Tarkett invites architects, designers and other industry professionals to attend an event series called Tarkett Design Days 2022, June 13-15, the dates of Chicago’s NeoCon show. The aesthetic is truly a celebration of the floor,” Benitez said. Women of color in design. Design days events.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 17, 2023

The response to the new campaign, directly tied to the launch of the new SmartStrand Color Wall, has been fantastic, according to Kelli Widdifield, senior vice president of marketing. With the Surfaces launch of the SmartStrand Color Wall, Widdifield said Mohawk wanted a marketing campaign that would amplify its reach. “We

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Las Vegas—While many of the laminate, SPC and hybrid/rigid core products aim to deliver more value to the consumer, a significant portion of hardwood flooring products showcased at Surfaces this year targeted the upper echelon of the market. Hallmark Floors Hallmark Floors’ Mark Casper alongside a few best sellers.

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JUNE 27, 2023

After the feel-good story that was the 2021 statistical year for carpet—when a COVID-19-led rally helped catapult residential sales to double-digit percentage gains— the pendulum swung the other way in 2022. When all the numbers were tabulated for 2022, Floor Covering News research found that overall carpet sales grew a scant 0.5%

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JULY 18, 2022

Mirage Hardwood Floors manufactures products across four different platforms. That same rationale, he said, applies to the top Canadian hardwood flooring manufacturers. Another aspect that separates the Canadian suppliers is our grading standards, which tend to be stricter than a lot of our competitors.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

The Antron brand was introduced in 1960 and was first used in luxury apparel because of its luster and excellent coloration. Today, real-world floor tests show that carpets of Antron nylon last up to 75% longer than the majority of competitive nylon carpets.

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Tile of Spain USA

MARCH 23, 2023

Photo Courtesy of Marcos Soria, Feria Valencia STATE OF THE INDUSTRY During the Tile of Spain Press Conference, held on the first day of the fair, Vicente Nomdedeu, President of The Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturer’s Association (ASCER) , echoed the strength of Spain’s ceramic sector, reporting on 2022 production, sales and exports figures.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

While the pandemic caused uncertainty across the board in 2020, it became clear in the year that followed that flooring would get a lift from the otherwise adverse event. MSI’s Arterra porcelain pavers feature Zero-slip, a proprietary technology providing exceptional slip resistance for wet and dry flooring.

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APRIL 8, 2022

“From examining how to make spaces more accessible to implementing biophilic design practices and exploring how NFTs and the metaverse will shape the future of design, we curated our 2022 CEU lineup to center around themes that are rapidly growing in importance for our industry,” said Allison Kearns, director of programming for NeoCon.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Lions Floor has taken another big step toward building its national supply chain infrastructure with the recent grand opening of a new, state-of-the-art distribution center in Houston. Bush Airport, currently houses 80,000 square feet of each color in the company’s expansive SPC offering—culminating in roughly 3.5 Tailored for Texas.

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APRIL 3, 2022

1 issue on the minds of many hardwood flooring executives was how the category would fare in the midst of a raging pandemic. Turns out the segment—and the industry by and large—would fare well as consumers and homeowners spent more time inside and more of their disposable income on flooring and other home improvement projects.

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JUNE 27, 2023

After the feel-good story that was the 2021 statistical year for carpet—when a COVID-19-led rally helped catapult residential sales to double-digit percentage gains— the pendulum swung the other way in 2022. When all the numbers were tabulated for 2022, Floor Covering News research found that overall carpet sales grew a scant 0.5%

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MAY 6, 2021

Positive market indicators bode well for increased hardwood flooring consumption. So much has been said about competing hard surface categories nipping into hardwood flooring’s market share in recent years—and there’s evidence supporting that trend. “The At The Flooring Gallery in Louisville, Ky., DID YOU KNOW. SELLING TIPS.

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