Floor Covering News

MARCH 20, 2024

Tile of Spain manufacturers returned to Valencia, Spain earlier this month for the landmark 40th edition of Cevisama, the International Fair for Ceramic Tiles and Bathroom Furnishings. This year’s fair was held from February 26-March 1, 2024 at Feria Valencia, located in Valencia’s center city. Miami, Fla.—

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 10, 2024

Atlanta— Coverings , the premier international tile and stone exhibition and conference in North America, has unveiled the honorees of the annual Rock Star Awards ahead of Coverings 2024, taking place April 22-25, 2024, at the Georgia World Congress Center here. Shanan Hehir, owner Shanans Absolute Tile LLC Manchester, Vt.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 8, 2024

It’s what flooring retailers rely on every year to chart their course for the next 12 months—the catalyst being solution-oriented products that resonate with end users while boosting retailers’ bottom lines. As such, Floor Covering News once again delivers The Great Reveal in our first issue of January. T he winter markets.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Las Vegas—Sika and Merkrete will showcase their products at TISE 2024 in the Mandalay Bay Convention Center here next week. SikaTile-815 Secure Grout is suitable for dimensional stone, slate, granite, stone agglomerates and most types of ceramic, ceramic mosaic, quarry, brick paver, porcelain, glass and clay tile installations.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 7, 2024

Las Vegas— Emser Tile has been awarded the Best of IBS Award in the Kitchen and Bath Products category at the 2024 NAHB International Builders’ Show (IBS), held here. “We We are deeply honored by the steadfast dedication demonstrated by our team in advancing Empervious by Emser,” said Carl Delia, president at Emser Tile.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Waregem, Belgium– Novalis has adopted the Unilin FlinTile technology on its new resilient flooring ranges. Starting in July, Novalis integrated this innovation into these new collections, enhancing the looks, installation and performance of these resilient flooring products. Unilin will exhibit FlinTile at Domotex Hannover.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 18, 2024

Turnhout, Belgium— i4F has joined forces with the Akgün Group-Duratiles to bring a clickable floating floor installation system to the world of ceramics. Our collaboration with i4F provides us with the perfect launch pad for our new DuraClick tiles,” said Murat Sencok, general coordinator, Akgün Group-Duratiles.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 30, 2024

Atlanta—Last week, students from Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC)/The Dalton Academy and Atlanta Technical College, who are participating in the Basic Floor Covering Program, attended Coverings 2024 here. The post FCEF brings install students to Coverings appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 17, 2024

When it comes to durability, scratch/dent resistance, ease of installation/maintenance and affordability, laminate flooring checks all the boxes. Other executives agree, citing innovations that are putting laminate flooring—whose coreboards still mainly comprise wood-based fibers—on a more equitable footing with rigid core flooring products.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Las Vegas—For the second year in a row Mohawk was a multiple winner in the 2024 Best of Surfaces competition, a contest cosponsored by Floor Covering News and Informa Exhibitions, which owns and operates The International Surface Event (TISE). You would never know it’s a tile/wall display.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 29, 2024

The Floor Covering Education Foundation (FCEF) was established with the aim of promoting career opportunities in flooring installation, building pathways to training, supporting programs and facilitating job placement for the next generation. This program covers carpet, hardwood, resilient and tile basic installation.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 6, 2024

Here from May 28 to May 30, 2024, the company will showcase its commitment to elevating the quality and performance of flooring products. The company will also be showcasing its intelligent quality control systems designed to optimize manufacturing processes and ensure the highest level of precision and consistency.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Las Vegas— ASID Inside SURFACES Tours is announcing the 13 brands selected for its inaugural series of tours taking place during The International Surface Event (TISE), on January 24-26, 2024 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nev. Between the two of us, we have had some great experiences with the brands we plan to visit.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Johnsonite Pentagonal rubber tiles Solon, Ohio—Johnsonite, which joined the Tarkett family of brands in 2005, has a new product-specific Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for its rubber tile, which details health and environmental impacts of each ingredient, as well as embodied carbon from cradle to gate.

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Ceramics of Italy

MARCH 18, 2024

Atlas Concorde, a major global player in the ceramic tile industry with an extensive presence in 130 countries across 5 continents , has further strengthened its position as the industry’s top ranked company in terms of export share in the period 2021-2022.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Nules, Spain—i4F announced that Novalam Innovacion SA has signed an i4F drop-lock technologies license agreement for its entry into the global stone polymer core (SPC) flooring market. Destined for the global market, SPC production will commence at Novalam’s new state-of-the-art facility in here as of March 2024. “We

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 26, 2024

operation of the Italian Iris Ceramica Group and a prominent manufacturer of high-tech porcelain and stoneware solutions , will present three new American-made high tech porcelain collections at Coverings 2024 in booth 7136. The post Stonepeak Ceramics debuts new collections at Coverings appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

However, because the Super Bowl will be taking place in Las Vegas in 2024, Surfaces will be moved up a week—Jan. Hicks said sales for the 2024 show are already encouraging, with many exhibitors interested in booking larger spaces. For Tom Urban, general manager of Great Lakes Carpet & Tile, Wildwood, Fla.,

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For the new 2023-2024 season, Decocer proposes very unique sizes and geometries, volumetric or 3D pieces, floral decorations, very contemporary multi-format and modular systems, great contrasts between matt and glossy finishes, zelliges, shade variation colors, hydraulic or exotic blue flooring for pool application.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

’” This year, Johnsonite’s color expert Janette Murray has developed not one, but seven inspiring new colorways for Color of the Year 2024: Sophisticated Raspberry, Aged Denim, Golden Joy, Earthen Brown, Retrospective Orange, Artful Sage and Nostalgic Pink. When it comes to color in your spaces, ‘Made Right Means Johnsonite.’”

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

T he intense level of competition in the waterproof flooring segment —particularly the LVP/SPC/rigid core category—has resulted in aggressive pricing strategies to build market share. For 2024, Bella Flooring Group also plans to launch a new waterproof PVC floor featuring EIR technology and a 20-mil wear layer.

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Stone Update

AUGUST 1, 2016

Research study cites new flooring systems, automated concrete-tile making, other developments for gains.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

These awards honor groundbreaking ideas and industry-changing concepts that have the potential to impact the way flooring is manufactured, promoted and sold. FlinTile addressees the most important downsides of ceramic tiles offering easy installation, lightweight tiles and s trong impact resistance.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Some innovators in the flooring industry don’t necessarily make the products end users consume (although that’s changing). Rather, they specialize in the underlying installation, digital imaging and click technologies that improve the aesthetics and performance of the flooring materials.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

T oday’s flooring retailer is awash with options when it comes to waterproof flooring—a bona fide flooring category as retailers continue to tout the product as a major draw for flooring buyers in 2023. Following are 2023’s waterproof flooring innovations from today’s top flooring suppliers.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 4, 2024

The reception has been incredible, and we’re excited for what’s to come as we continue to roll out more product options and more locations in 2024.” The post Laticrete profiles, trims hitting shelves nationwide appeared first on Floor Covering News. Profiles and trims are also the newest addition to the Laticrete ANYCOLOR program.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Apicer’s 2024 The Art of Possibility Tour of Portugal proved hugely inspirational. Small format glazed wall tiles are Primus Vitoria’s speciality. Panels in the factory hark back to Portugal’s deep tiling tradition. Decorative tiles in four categories augment the extensive range of matt and gloss plain tiles.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Apicer’s 2024 The Art of Possibility Tour of Portugal proved hugely inspirational. Small format glazed wall tiles are Primus Vitoria’s speciality. Panels in the factory hark back to Portugal’s deep tiling tradition. Decorative tiles in four categories augment the extensive range of matt and gloss plain tiles.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The spirit of ‘we’re all in this together’ was reflected in this year’s Floor Covering News Retailers of the Year issue. Floor Covering News then narrowed down the winners based on the scope of the merit attributed to each floor covering retailer. Carpetland USA Flooring Center Sturtevant, Wis.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 18, 2024

In flooring, it can be as explosive as developing completely new product formulations that offer consumers features/benefits not previously available—we’re looking at you, WPC. This year’s Floor Covering News “Industry Disrupters” 2024 issue features all manner of players that are—or are poised to—shake things up.

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