Floor Covering News

APRIL 22, 2024

ceramic tile manufacturing, are filing anti-dumping and countervailing duty petitions with the federal government seeking the imposition of substantial tariffs on imports of ceramic tile from India to remedy unfairly low-priced imports that have injured domestic manufacturers and flooded the market with uncertified porcelain tiles.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I think the vibe is very good,” said Patrick Warren, vice president, residential sales, dealer & showrooms, Daltile. The product integrates porcelain tile with LED lighting to create a backlit look for users. Divinium is a porcelain and ceramic wall and mosaic collection. We’re optimistic, and Daltile’s in it to win it.”

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 26, 2023

The soft opening of the showroom is scheduled to begin in early October 2023. Chad Treuthart, the VP of residential sales and showrooms at Virginia Tile, expressed his pride in the team that has been diligently working on establishing the company’s presence in the area for the past five years.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 27, 2023

However, making the sale can sometimes be laborious for the retail sales associate. With that in mind, tile suppliers are touting new-and-improved merchandising concepts designed to support the sale. The ultimate goal is to equip our retail partners for success with our products and increase their sales. Statements 2.0

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Los Angeles—Emser Tile has released its 2023/2024 catalog , available both in print and online. It encompasses a wide range of materials such as porcelain, ceramic, luxury vinyl tile and planks, glass, decorative accents, mosaics, natural stone, setting materials, whole shower systems and more. “Our

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Ceramics of Italy

MARCH 18, 2024

The award recognises Italian companies’ international sales achievements and their ability to enhance the global standing of Italian industry based on official statistics from the Italian Customs and Monopolies A gency. Rather, it is a product ecosystem consisting of porcelain floor and wall tiles united by a profound aesthetic harmony.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 2, 2022

Newly released data from Informa shows the audience consisted of 68% executive management roles, 74% companies with sales volume over $1 million annually and 82% active buyers. I can’t wait for 2023!”. With the inclusion of man- made materials, we are looking forward to an even better show in 2023”.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2023

. “The new facility allows us to deliver every solution for all customers’ tile needs, and positions us for continued growth in years ahead,” said Mike Ward, Portobello America’s vice president of sales. We intend to deliver them the best possible, highest-quality styles of porcelain floor and wall tile.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 4, 2023

The Mexicali plant that we started last year will be completed in 2023, and we continue to add more capacity to our Dalton plant. This expansion project at Shaw Plant RP is expected to continue throughout 2023. Our extensive product line will be made here, for here,” said Mike Ward, vice president of sales.

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Ceramics of Italy

JUNE 1, 2023

In 2023, EnergieKer has obtained UNI EN ISO 14001: 2015 certification demonstrating its commitment to minimise the environmental impact of its production processes.

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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. metres of tiles, achieving total sales of Euro 45.3 The other two main product categories are porcelain tiles, and SIB.

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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. metres of tiles, achieving total sales of Euro 45.3 The other two main product categories are porcelain tiles, and SIB.

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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. In commercial, hard surfaces surpassed carpet for the second straight year with hard surface sales reaching $3.5 of hard surface commercial sales and is the fastest growing category.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

INNOVATION Emser Radiant Extruded Glazed Porcelain According to international consulting firm McKinsey, the definition of innovation is the systematic practice of developing and marketing breakthrough products and services for adoption by customers. Radiant extruded glazed porcelain is unlike any collection in the Emser portfolio.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 14, 2023

“The Main Street marketplace is—and always will be—a driver in the market economy,” said Glenn King, vice president of sales, Southeast region, Stanton Carpet. billion-plus commercial flooring market, with specified contract representing the lion’s share of sales, preliminary FCNews research shows.

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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. However, while dollar sales were up, much of that came from price increases and inflationary pressures. Volume experienced a slight decrease overall. billion square feet.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

—The National Tile Contractors Association ( NTCA ) trainers will be touring nine states, offering 17 free, standards-based workshops and eight free regional trainings this year—nearly double the number provided in 2023. Workshops will be held in: Calif.,

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Diary of a Tile Addict

JANUARY 27, 2024

Ecoker (2008), formulation of a porcelain paste with firing for 27 minutes at normal working temperature. In 2023 the buzzword was Artificial Intelligence. In While you are focused on new developments, your competition is becoming stronger in your market with the development and sale of traditional products.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 14, 2023

“Most of the market for commercial flooring is healthy and our members expect to have a growth year in 2023,” said Mark Bischoff, president and CEO, Starnet Commercial Flooring. In May, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) predicts multi-family building starts to decline by more than 10% annually from 2023 to 2024.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 26, 2023

Commercial flooring rebounded as sales increased 13.1% The lion’s share of sales (approximately 70%) was generated from specified contract while the remainder came from Main Street commercial applications, research shows. flooring sales, according to Floor Covering News research. from roughly $6.5 billion in 2021 to $7.34

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

I would probably say the market’s going to be, at best, flat, maybe even a little bit down,” said Dick Quinlan, VP of sales and marketing, Wellmade. There’s still a lot of pricing mechanization going on, and as a result I think you’re going to see dollar sales will probably be down. Customs began detaining vinyl flooring in 2023.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 3, 2023

For retail sales associates, PFC is intended to be the easiest way to sell flooring—with confidence and simplicity. luxury indoor outdoor nylon) yarn system was launched in 2023 under the mill’s Rosecore brand. is the first entirely carbon neutral product to be offered in the porcelain tile industry. Plaster 2.0 Jude collection.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 26, 2023

Commercial flooring rebounded as sales increased 13.1% The lion’s share of sales (approximately 70%) was generated from specified contract while the remainder came from Main Street commercial applications, research shows. flooring sales, according to Floor Covering News research. from roughly $6.5 billion in 2021 to $7.34

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 18, 2022

For MSI, the indoor/outdoor trend has been a priority for some time now, but the company has officially launched—along with several product lines—a new display designed to help the dealer make that indoor/outdoor sale at Coverings 2022. “We The facility is expected be fully operational by March 2023.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

S everal issues that shook out in 2023 have contributed to a less-than-stellar year for ceramic tile. The increase in interest/mortgage rates, an abrupt transition of spending among consumers—from goods to services—and price deflation have all caused a lack of growth for ceramic tile in 2023. Category experts agree the U.S.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

While the flooring industry may have an uphill battle in 2023 as it faces a slowdown in Q1-Q2 due to inflationary and housing pressures, the tile category is ready to boost its numbers via its No. These new product lines are enticing consumers back to the category as they continue to renovate their homes amid a slowdown in new home sales.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

We are forecasting additional declines for single-family construction in 2023, which means economic slowing will expand from the residential construction market into the rest of the economy.”. NAHB is now projecting a significant decline in multi-family starts in 2023.”. Inflation and the supply chain.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Keith Campbell has announced he will retire effective December 31, 2023. He joined the company in 1977 and held a variety of diverse positions in sales, manufacturing and finance. In 2005, he was promoted to director of laminate business and in 2006 he was named director of porcelain tile business. Salem, N.J.—After

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Our customers are very glad Shaw Floors is back at Surfaces,” said Steve Sieracki, senior vice president of residential sales. “We The technology’s target launch is late 2022 or early 2023. Traditional porcelain tile is beautiful, but it’s very hard and very cold and you have grout to worry about.

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