Floor Covering News

JANUARY 4, 2024

“When we announced this product at the Coverings trade show last April , our goal was clear—give our customers a new, premium solution to help them take their design to the edge,” said Ben Lampi, product manager at Laticrete. Profiles and trims are also the newest addition to the Laticrete ANYCOLOR program.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 26, 2024

Atlanta—Coverings, North America’s preeminent event for the ceramic tile and natural stone industry, has named the winners of its 2024 Best Booth Awards. Another Best in Show award was given to SICIS, The Art Mosaic Factory (Hall B, Booth 4087), for its wide range of mosaic offerings that paint a spectrum of design possibilities.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This week, we asked: What will be the hot product category in 2024? Here are their responses: I believe waterproof carpet will be the hot product for 2024. There are many new styles coming for 2024, which will only add to its success. It’s not only more earth-friendly than other products but durable as well.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

This year’s show coincided with fears of a 2023 downturn as still-elevated inflation, high interest rates and weakness in some housing sectors painted a sobering economic picture. However, because the Super Bowl will be taking place in Las Vegas in 2024, Surfaces will be moved up a week—Jan. Thereafter, optimism abounded. . –

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Las Vegas—The ubiquitous presence of laminate products at Surfaces 2024 was reminiscent of the level of participation and excitement that the category experienced back in the late 1990s—laminate’s heyday in the U.S. The product is constructed on a 10mm + 2mm format with an attached IXPE pad.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

However, scores of suppliers of competitive waterproof products such as resilient and even some high-performance laminates and hybrids are responding by highlighting select collections that provide retailers with trade-up opportunities and, by extension, higher profit margins. We decided we’re not going to the bottom anymore.

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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. However, not all products are created equal and only those complete with next-level innovations will find homes at specialty retail stores.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 17, 2024

However, where laminate has had to play “catch-up” in recent years is in the waterproof/water-resistant department—the domain of rigid core products like SPC and WPC. Following is an overview of some of the latest laminate flooring products designed to give rigid core a run for its money.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Businesses and consumers should expect to see high interest rates heading into 2024 , although the rate of increase and severity of the increases should be lower during the year. housing market “The housing market will begin to stabilize as we go through 2024 and begin to show more appreciable signs of recovery in 2025,” Beaulieu said. “If

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Floor Covering News

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

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In one presentation at the NAFCD 2023 conference, titled “Piercing Through the Noise,” Brian Beaulieu—a familiar face at past NAFCD conferences—painted a cautiously optimistic outlook on the housing market, a segment of critical importance to floor covering distributors. Looking toward 2024, I do believe [Beaulieu] is right.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 1, 2024

Note: If the dwelling is the only fixed location of the business, a space within it that is used regularly for the business’s inventory or product samples. For example, the cost of carpeting and painting for the home office area. For the tax year 2024, the rate would be $5 per square foot for up to 300 square feet.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 19, 2024

The hard surface component will begin shipping to retailers in the late May/early June 2024 time frame. Simply put, Perfect Home is a curated selection of products designed to simplify the shopping experience for the consumer. Consumers want to see your 10 best products, not 100 pieces of carpet.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 22, 2024

Innovation is definitely one of those capabilities, whether it’s ways to merchandise the product, to communicate about the product, to show the product online or to advertise the product. It’s not just product innovation; it’s innovation across the whole value chain.” We have approximately 10 of those.

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