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Tile Store, Why Your Installer Should Go With You!

How to Floor Tile

There are a lot of important items to consider when selecting tile. Why do we charge X for one type of tile and Y for another? It's easy to answer, some tile is much more time consuming to install than others. Marble and Granite we can grind and smooth outside edges but regular tile needs some help.

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New and notable at TISE 2023

Floor Covering News

Gilardino Flooring Booth 1278 This OEM flooring manufacturer with three plants in China offers vinyl flooring that is both CE-certified and FloorScore certified. Tesserae Technologies Booth 3458 Tesserae Technologies brings its customers a cloud ERP system specifically built for the tile and stone industry.

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Industry awards, donations and more

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

Tile of Spain, the international brand representing 125 ceramic tile manufacturers belonging to the Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturers’ Association (ASCER), has won a 2013 KBCULTURE Award for Tile of Spain manufacturer Ceracasa’s stunning Absolute porcelain tile. Ceracasa wins award.

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Bostik inaugurates new R&D Center in France

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

Bostik, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of adhesives and sealants, inaugurated its new, state-of-the-art R&D facility – the Bostik Smart Technology Center – in Venette, located near Paris, on October 3 rd. Our R&D centers all are innovation-driven and focus on developing smart adhesives.

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Scoring flooring: Industry stats for 2021

Floor Covering News

Back then it was about products like resilient tile and VCT. 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. from 2020’s $22.951 billion. The overall U.S.

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35th Anniversary: 35 people under 40

Floor Covering News

senior director of marketing, Dal-Tile. Paij Thorn-Brooks, vice president of marketing, Dal-Tile. Graham has worked in sales and technical positions for flooring manufacturers of rubber, vinyl and polymers/adhesives. vice president of commercial sales, Dal-Tile. Scott Maslowski, senior vice president of sales, Dal-Tile.

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STATS: SPC segment continues to lead the charge

Floor Covering News

When compared to ceramic tile, hardwood, laminate and other hard surface materials, resilient accounted for 50.6% Whether they are updating the room themselves as a DIYer or using an installer, they are very quickly able to transition a room vs. tile or hardwood where it’s a much longer process.”. increase from 4.564 billion in 2019.