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Consensus on Surfaces ’24: ‘It’s back!’

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L as V egas —With every major flooring manufacturer represented, and with international attendees returning at their highest level in years, Surfaces ’24 very much hit the mark as the industry’s most important flooring event. “A Flooring dealers agreed Surfaces 2024 stood out in a number of ways. “I People were happy.

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Third annual FCNnovation award winners announced

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These awards honor groundbreaking ideas and industry-changing concepts that have the potential to impact the way flooring is manufactured, promoted and sold. As the click system ensures perfect alignment of the tiles, installation of a FlinTile floor does not require any specific tools or the use of spacers.

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Exclusive: NAFCD board tackles key issues

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These were just some of the hot-button topics on the table at the 2022 North American Association of Floor Covering Distributors and North American Building Material Distribution Association (NAFCD + NBMDA) convention held here late last year. Derek Brooks: We buy a lot of product from Europe—probably equal to Asia.

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STATS: SPC segment continues to lead the charge

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By Megan Salzano While 2020 was anything but ordinary, there was one thing the flooring industry could count on: the continued popularity of the resilient category. It will come as no surprise that resilient—led mostly by the rigid core/SPC sub-segments —once again registered gains while many other flooring categories in 2020 did not.

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Obstacles fail to derail wood’s surge

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By Reginald Tucker Like many other aspirational home improvement categories that benefitted from consumers spending much more time at home in 2020, the North American hardwood flooring sector also reaped the rewards. 4-inch solid hardwood flooring growing with wirebrushed lighter tones garnering the most interest.

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STATS: Wood finds silver lining amid challenges

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By Reginald Tucker The hardwood flooring category continued to feel the effects of the rising popularity of competing wood look-alike alternatives in 2020, as the hardwood segment took another hit for the second year running. of the total flooring market in 2020 in terms of dollars. sales, Mercier Wood Flooring. “We