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Back to Basics: AC’s Ceramic Tile Collections

Architectural Ceramics

While children everywhere are going back to school, let’s go back to basics and learn about ceramic tile through a few of Architectural Ceramic’s collections: Basics, London, and City Hall. Let’s learn a bit about how ceramic tile is classified. The principles used to create ceramic tile are basic.

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Chinese Tariffs and their Effect on the Tile Industry

Architectural Ceramics

Keep in mind most importers, like Architectural Ceramics, imported excess stock to get through this transition. for unglazed ceramic 10% for unglazed porcelain 8.5% for glazed ceramic and porcelain 2.7% for unglazed ceramic 10% for unglazed porcelain 8.5% for glazed ceramic and porcelain 2.7%

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Armstrong Flooring wins three 2019 Good Design awards

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Good Design covers new consumer products, graphics and packaging designed and manufactured in Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America. Alterna Plank with Diamond 10 technology captures the natural beauty of stone, ceramic or porcelain, while retaining warmth, absorbing sound and feeling more forgiving to your feet.

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FCNews 2nd annual FCNnovation Awards winners

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Europe and Asia/Pacific. This increased resilience outperforms both v-groove and traditional ceramic grouts in terms of wear and tear. is the first entirely carbon neutral product to be offered in the porcelain tile industry. True Grout. Statements 2.0. Statements 2.0 Plaster 2.0. MILEstone (Florim USA). Plaster 2.0

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STATS Commercial: Healthcare the bright spot in 2020

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last year, resilient, ceramic and hardwood saw their shares of commercial flooring specs grow to 28.7%, 14.8% Ceramic tile, whose share of commercial hovers around 15%, benefitted from the activity seen in healthcare applications. Natural materials such as ceramic tile, hardwood and linoleum are positioned as sustainable options.

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Waterproof: Domestic manufacturing update

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People were waiting nine to 10 months to get a container ship out of Asia, and it really helped people realize they need a source for U.S. The new plant will produce a wide range of products, including porcelain tiles, ceramic tiles, polished tiles, in-house trims and mosaics. production. It changed everything.

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STATS: Tile sales decline, comeback looms large

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Ceramic tile, which has been faced with ongoing challenges for several years now, was no exception. Continuing its downward trajectory, ceramic tile sales in 2020 experienced a low, single-digit decline in terms of overall dollar sales and similar declines in terms of volume. Ceramic tile sales in 2020 declined roughly 5%.

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