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New and notable at TISE 2023

Floor Covering News

Franken Schotter Booth 4920 Franken Schotter offers a wide range of top-quality natural stone products made in Germany. Each of its factories are equipped with the most modern stone cutting technology today. Big Dog Adhesives Booth 5852 Big Dog Adhesives is a leader in engineered seaming adhesives.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

Simulating semiprecious stone, Ceracasa’s Absolute collection achieves a high gloss polished finish on porcelain tile with six high gloss floor and wall tile colors that bring luminosity to any space. Ionized metallic oxides are used in a vacuum with an oppositely charged adhesive on the surface of the tile.

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HempWood: Homegrown and eco-friendly

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F or domestic floor covering manufacturers, it’s one thing to be able to locally source all the components that go into the making of the final product—not just the raw materials but also the adhesives, binders, etc. Due to the natural grain texture of HempWood, the granite actually looks like stone and the marble looks like stone.

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Scoring flooring: Industry stats for 2021

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They also do not include stone flooring, nor do they account for ceramic wall tile, cove base and rubber accessories.). Tile accounted for 23% of sales while hardwood and natural stone represent 8% and 6%, respectively. Spain, which in 2020 supplanted China as the largest exporter of ceramic tile to the U.S. increase from 2020.

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STATS: SPC segment continues to lead the charge

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Visual designs throughout the LVT category continue to improve and rival the look of real hardwood as well as tile and natural stone, all at lower prices than the real thing. In many instances, I’m convinced that consumers will gravitate toward wood or stone and then they will go into the store and they will leave buying rigid/LVT.