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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

How it works: Unicoat is applied on the edges of the floorboard during production, resulting in a fully sealed surface when the panels are locked together. The new, watertight technology adds advantages to any type of flooring and is invaluable to extend performance and longevity of laminate, engineered wood and real hardwood products.

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MARCH 21, 2022

FCNews’ fourth annual Industry Disrupters issue features innovative players and thinkers who are changing the game in terms of product enhancements, technological breakthroughs or simply radical new ways of doing business. It’s this disruptive strategy that has helped put Cali on the 2022 Industry Disruptors list. AHF Products.

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Floor Covering News

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. AHF Products, for example, has one of the most robust domestic production operations as any supplier in the industry.

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Floor Covering News

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. According to the company, this versatile product has a variety of applications from hospitality and office spaces to residential living. Dalton, Ga.— Intermingle.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 3, 2023

FCNews has announced the winners of its second annual FCNnovation Awards —a program designed to recognize and showcase some of the most innovative new products and technologies unveiled in the current year. Following are the 2022 winners: Carpet. The selling system’s best product is nylon 6,6—which includes Dixie’s EnVision 6,6 fiber.

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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. Color tone also factors in heavily during the selection process. The post The Hardwood Selling Guide 2022 appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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MARCH 23, 2023

H ardwood may very well be the most aspirational flooring product (next to stone or ceramic tile). To that end, hardwood suppliers across the board are leveraging emerging innovations designed to enhance both the visual characteristics as well as the performance attributes of the product.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 1, 2023

I really like to see people in the booths experiencing the product. 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. And there’s business being done—that I can say for sure. In fact, the market was only down 1.3%

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MARCH 16, 2023

SPC and WPC) due primarily to supply chain challenges with some popular, imported resilient products. The question now is will this resurgence continue as supply chain issues surrounding imported SPC/WPC normalize and as domestic production of competing hard surface categories ramp up. Lee is not alone. “We Take Mohawk, for example.

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Floor Covering News

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. We’re a full year ahead of where we expected to be.

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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. However, the innovation and R&D that installation system technology companies provide certainly improve the products suppliers offer to retailers. cor film and the core. Another innovation from 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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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. Signature HDX’s high-definition color process offers extreme color clarity and no loss of color detail. “To

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Floor Covering News

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 was one of 19 total products honored for its contribution to the healthcare built environment. All products in the collection come in a 6.25

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Floor Covering News

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. “In R esidential carpet sales grew an impressive 17.2% Home values rising. New offerings lift market.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The top suppliers, many floor covering retailers agree, are the ones that help specialty retailers maintain healthy profit margins—especially in an extremely competitive environment inundated with so many me-too products jockeying for market share. They stand behind their products, they don’t play games with us.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 17, 2022

By Reginald Tucker—After several years of losing market share to wood-look products, wood flooring is regaining momentum. For 2022, the group expects the U.S. For 2022, the group expects the U.S. Even more telling, according to NWFA research, is the fact that homeowners are investing in higher-quality products.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Launching in 2022 on RevWood Premier, Mohawk’s Signature Technology reveals realistic beauty with artistic precision and gives retailers the differentiation they need to win in a crowded wood market, the company said. Products like this come around once in a decade, and the early adaptors will reap the greatest rewards. Calhoun, Ga.—Mohawk

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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. The fundamental element that made it compelling was an over-the-top depiction of how much our SmartStrand product can take and still perform.”

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Floor Covering News

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. Women of color in design. Rachel Berkin, sustainability product manager for Tarkett North America. Design days events.

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Floor Covering News

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. Keith Spano, president of Flooring America/Flooring Canada, added, “We become the standard for retail flooring with 2.0; the first chapter. Gilbert called 2.0

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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. It’s a product that’s going to stand the test of time.”

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Floor Covering News

JULY 18, 2022

Mirage Hardwood Floors manufactures products across four different platforms. Several of these suppliers—many of which are household names in the flooring industry—are renown for producing some of the highest quality hardwood flooring products available, as many of their retailer and distributor partners attest. sales, Mercier.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2023

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. Made in Spain, the products also boast trendy designs, including wood visuals that offer up to 24 variations before you see a pattern repeat.

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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. INVISTA continues to make investments in production processes in support of the brand portfolio.

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Floor Covering News

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 17, 2023

Pictured is Dogwood from AHF Products. These range from wide-and-long plank products—which are still very much in favor—to specialty products featuring proprietary finishes and surface texture applications. It’s all about demonstrating why hardwood is still the most aspirational flooring product on the market.

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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. Doug Hayes, vice president of sales, Florida Tile, added, “The residential ceramic tile business has been strong through the pandemic, and we expect it to continue to be strong in 2022.

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Floor Covering News

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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APRIL 3, 2022

These include rising inflation , higher raw materials pricing amid inconsistent availability and, now, a war in Ukraine that has threatened the supply of so many goods and services, including Russia-sourced birch lumber that goes into the core layer of many engineered hardwood flooring products sold globally today. We don’t have that issue.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Bush Airport, currently houses 80,000 square feet of each color in the company’s expansive SPC offering—culminating in roughly 3.5 In addition to flooring products, we have moldings, transitions and moisture barriers. Customers will also be able to pull real-time sales reports of top-selling Lions Floor products.

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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

These features include educational insights, new and staple hardwood products and a spotlight featuring one of the Coalition’s members. In the commercial contract segment, we are experiencing really high demand for products for specification. DID YOU KNOW. “Our sales and marketing, Indusparquet. “In SELLING TIPS.

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