Floor Covering News

JUNE 26, 2023

Commercial and multi-family construction made impressive gains largely driven by pent-up demand for apartments and condos, Dodge Construction Network reported. Others diversified their product and service offerings to cater to a wider customer base, which included more A&D community members working remotely more often.

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MAY 1, 2024

has released its 2023 corporate sustainability report, the company’s 16 th annual reporting of its efforts focused on people and the planet. Other key progress noted in the report: As Shaw’s portfolio of products continues to evolve, almost 90% of the products the company makes are Cradle to Cradle Certified.

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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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MARCH 19, 2024

Spain continues to lead production within the European Union, with over $432 million in domestic ceramic tile sales. Throughout the four-day event, Spanish tile manufacturers showcased ground-breaking advancements in production methods and technologies, unveiling a new era of ceramic excellence.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Shaw’s Scott Sandlin with Flooring 101 owner, Jimmy Poulos, at TISE 2023. Las Vegas—Against a backdrop of somewhat troubling, if not sobering, economic reports, the industry came in full force to the Mandalay Convention Center for The International Surface Event (TISE 2023) with no sentiment of impending doom.

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JULY 13, 2022

Five years since it was founded, in 2021 Gruppo Italcer presented its first Sustainability Report, a transparent and detailed overview of the main initiatives carried out during the year and the formal obligations undertaken by the company as it looks to the future. www.gruppoitalcer.it.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 26, 2023

American factories reported that material, labor and transportation constraints prevented them from operating at full capacity. Speaking of which, no product was victimized by inflation more than ceramic tile, which was up 14% in dollars but down 1% in volume. Back then it was about products like resilient tile and VCT.

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

As early as 1999, the company’s experts began transforming production cycles with a focus on energy saving and the environment. Research led to ever-more efficient plant and to the production of tiles with a high content of recyclable material and industrial waste.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 26, 2023

Commercial and multi-family construction made impressive gains largely driven by pent-up demand for apartments and condos, Dodge Construction Network reported. Others diversified their product and service offerings to cater to a wider customer base, which included more A&D community members working remotely more often.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 29, 2023

Our commercial contractors reported record revenues as well as solid, if not record, backlogs entering 2023,” he said. However, as the residential side of the business tackles these challenges head on, some suppliers are looking to the commercial segment in 2023 and beyond as a bright spot.

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Tile of Spain USA

MARCH 23, 2023

This year’s annual event, the first to take place since 2020, was held from February 27 – March 3, 2023 at Feria Valencia, located in Valencia’s center city. During the four-day show, Spanish tile makers pulled out all the stops, with new production methods and technologies making way for a ground-breaking class of ceramic sensations.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 20, 2024

During Tile of Spain’s annual press conference, held on the second day of the exhibition, Vicente Nomdedeu, president of the Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturer’s Association (ASCER), reported on the tenacity of Spain’s ceramic sector, providing insight on 2023 production, sales and exports figures.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Still, the numbers must be taken with a grain of salt as the November housing starts figure was 34% less than the same month the prior year while authorizations of units declined nearly 10% over October 2023 to 435,000. “I You have to design the property, get permits and arrange the financing—so there is a little bit of a lag.”

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 30, 2023

Industry observers attribute the disparity in sales to volume activity primarily to higher material and production costs in the face of slower sales. of all hard surface flooring products. Volume-wise, square footage sold at the first point of distribution slipped to 915 million square feet—an 11.2%

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 4, 2023

The Ceramic Tile Education Foundation (CTEF) has expanded training and education for professionals in the ceramic tile and stone industry for 2023. 7-11, 2023. 21-25, 2023. One round will be conducted at a West Coast site the week of June 26, 2023 and the other at CTEF in South Carolina the week of July 31, 2023.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 15, 2023

Mohawk Casual Elegance SmartStrand is part of the 2023 Design Trends Report. Mohawk announced the release of its inaugural residential soft surface Design Trends Report, Renewed Transformation. The post Mohawk’s releases inaugural Design Trends Report appeared first on Floor Covering News. Calhoun, Ga.—Mohawk

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 26, 2023

Shaw’s corporate sustainability report highlights the company’s progress and focus on putting people at the heart of its efforts. In addition to this progress, the report focuses on the company’s commitment to its sustain[HUMAN]ability strategy—putting people at the heart of its efforts.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 2, 2023

Chicago— NeoCon opens for its 54 th edition here at The Mart June 12-14 , 2023, offering tens of thousands of attendees an insider look into the driving forces behind design progress and what will shape shared spaces next.

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Floor Covering News

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

MARCH 17, 2023

L a s V ega s —The 2023 International Surface Event highlighted the vigor with which the flooring industry is facing today. Flooring software technology providers were among those ready to support the industry’s vitality and growing needs in 2023. What’s the first thing they’re going to do on a hard surface product?

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Floor Covering News

MAY 3, 2023

The National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA) kicked off its 2023 Expo here earlier this week amid strong attendance. But it also has a rich history with forest products. Nearly half of Wisconsin’s land area is covered by forests, making the state a large contributor to the forest products industry. Milwaukee, Wis.—The

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Ceramics of Italy

AUGUST 29, 2023

The positive figures announced by Laminam CEO Alberto Selmi at the beginning of the 2022 Sustainability Report reflect the company’s highly satisfactory performance in a year that has severely challenged even the most established businesses. We believe this is the only concrete way to ensure sustainable development for future generations.”

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Floor Covering News

JULY 5, 2022

The coronavirus pandemic impacted all sectors of the economy last year as businesses saw supply chains interrupted, demand for products and services decline, and government-mandated closures. Some major commercial flooring sectors, such as education, retail and healthcare, recovered faster than others, according to published reports.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

FCNews reveals the winners of its third annual FCNnovation Awards—an initiative designed to recognize and showcase some of the most innovative new products and technologies launched in the current year. Inhaus Icon with Classen Ceramin technology Truly sustainable products need to offer recyclability and recycled content.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 25, 2022

Milliken & Company published its fourth annual sustainability report, a key reporting component in the company’s progress toward its 2025 sustainability goals. In 2019, Milliken laid out 12 sustainability goals, focused on its people, its products and the planet. Spartanburg, S.C.—Milliken

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Floor Covering News

MAY 3, 2023

Many of the new Mirage hardwood flooring offerings for 2023 will be built on a new engineered platform. We’re hearing less about it today,” said Brian Carson, president and CEO of AHF Products. “We Ditto for Mohawk, which maintains a mixture of domestically made and sourced hardwood production. Pictured is Dreamville oak.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 17, 2023

F looring retailers are recalibrating their near-term projections as the anticipated slowdown in 2023 has yet to materialize or has been less impactful thus far. As the second quarter begins, dealers are reporting that for the most part business activity has kept pace with previous quarters and, in some instances, has accelerated. “As

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

These were just some of the highlights of the 2023 Floors & More winter convention held here recently. For Floors & More, the timing couldn’t be better given Mannington’s recent updating of its own website and corporate logo, as well as the expansion of its entire hard and soft surface product portfolio. vice president.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 13, 2023

economy, is entering uncharted waters in 2023. Surging lending rates and building materials costs, plus deteriorating affordability conditions continue to put a damper on housing production. Rising interest rates and overall product inflation have dramatically slowed the single-family market during the back half of 2022.”.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Despite maintaining extensive product selections, logistics hubs and customer service centers, Amazon and Wayfair appear to be flying under the radar in the residential flooring business. We are fortunate that in our market, people want to see product and touch it.” Oftentimes it happens right under their very noses.

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JULY 26, 2023

Mapei’s commitment to building a sustainable future has once again won it recognition as a Sustainability Leader 2023, the list of the 240 most sustainable Italian companies drawn up by Statista, a leading market research company specialising in rankings and company data analysis, in collaboration with Il Sole 24 Ore.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

What’s more promising is total consumption in value, which the TCNA reported as $3.03 According to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), elevated mortgage rates, high construction costs and weakening demand stemming from deteriorating affordability conditions continue to act as a drag on single-family housing production.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

HubSpot asked over 500 marketing leaders and executives to predict the top challenges they expect to face in 2023 so you can be prepared to face them. Today, marketing is so fast-paced that it can be difficult to identify which areas you’ll want to focus on to facilitate stronger growth in 2023 and beyond. This makes sense.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Brian Beaulieu of ITR Economics noted that there’s good news on the far horizon at the NAFCD 2023 conference. No one is expecting floor covering distributors to post banner sales numbers for 2023—certainly not in an environment marked by high inflation and a slumping new home construction market. C olorado S pring s , C olo.—No

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 27, 2023

“With inflation, the average consumer is looking for value and choosing [less costly] lighter retail weights of 30 ounce to 40 ounce and more polyester due to lower raw material cost,” said Jamie Welborn, Mohawk’s senior vice president of product management, soft surface. These cut-pile sales are reported as residential, not Main Street.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Nearly two months into what many predicted would be a lean year for the flooring industry has instead been something of a pleasant surprise as flooring dealers report results have mostly surpassed forecasts. “So So far, so good in 2023,” Adam Joss, president/owner of The Vertical Connection Carpet One in Columbia, Md.,

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 15, 2024

Reports of robust consumer spending on travel and entertainment has continued to boost U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) in recent quarters, but that outlay has not trickled down to the flooring sector to the same degree. That’s according to dealers who reported a mostly flat Q1.

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