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Stats 2023: Hardwood flooring cedes share

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We’re putting a coating on to take some of the pink out before we’ll do the colorations,” Bondrowski explained. I expect that shipments from China declined significantly in 2022 vs. 2021, replaced by other Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia.” Mannington’s Hammel agreed. “I

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Hardwood: State of the Industry 2022

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The products that we get are primarily from Asia, and they use eucalyptus and other local species for the core. Most, if not all, of our hardwood products come from Southeast Asia,” Stepp said. We’re bringing in material from Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia, and container rates out of those countries has been increasing.