Floor Covering News

JANUARY 3, 2023

For retail sales associates, PFC is intended to be the easiest way to sell flooring—with confidence and simplicity. Europe and Asia/Pacific. Durability on rigid core products featuring True Grout technologies is maximized due to the addition of a colored wear layer between the décor film and the core. True Grout.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 9, 2020

“COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on every aspect of the economy, including commercial flooring sales,” said John Stephens, vice president of marketing, Shaw Contract. Soft surface sales showed flat to low single-digit gains, with approximately $3.3 Soft surface sales showed flat to low single-digit gains, with approximately $3.3

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 26, 2023

Ian Burt, director of sales and marketing at Aquafil USA, agreed the show kicked off to a roaring start. We had a lot of overseas visitors, both from Asia and Europe, which was great. Of that, flexible LVT (including glue-down and loose lay) brought in $1.446 billion in sales and 758 million square feet. And performance.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 18, 2024

Russia is a major supplier of birch wood to global markets, particularly to countries in Europe and Asia. PureGrain is said to offer greater color clarity (5x more compared to traditional film products, the company said), embossed texture dimension, enhanced abrasion properties and is designed with 35 unique planks.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 17, 2021

FCNews research showed the category generated $6.589 billion in sales in 2020 —an industry-leading 21.3% The recent pandemic has played a huge role in the unprecedented rise of resilient sales,” explained Steve Ehrlich, vice president of sales and marketing, Novalis. increase over 2019’s $5.433 billion.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 19, 2021

FCNews research shows the category generated $6.589 billion in sales (not including rubber) in 2020—an industry-leading 21.3% In terms of volume, the category accounted for 5.455 billion square feet (not including rubber) at the first point of sale, a 19.5% of sales vs. 2019’s 45.1%. Existing home sales grew to 5.64

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 9, 2021

The new, 54,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility will handle both finishing and automated packaging of products under the Concord Flooring banner manufactured at its sites in Asia and via its partner on the East Coast U.S. Challenging the industry to go bigger. This process produces an authentic, natural appearance and texture.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 29, 2024

economy.” Jeff Meadows president of residential sales Mohawk “Over the past few years, we have survived some pretty dramatic events—a global pandemic, a ransomware attack, our primary fiber source abusively exiting the market and 40-year-record-high inflation—so I am sleeping well these days. There’s also too much turmoil overseas.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 30, 2021

8-inch platform, features contemporary, modern oaks that reflect the same trends that are driving real wood sales. Lions Floor has been working closely with its supplier partners in Asia to come up with ways to improve on the product’s resistance to moisture. The product, constructed on a 3?8-inch It’s a stable material.”.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 29, 2021

We had three displays of 14 colors each,” Eylor said. Our sales that year were probably between $30 and $40 million.”. Today, Republic sells a little more than 300 SKUs, half of which is SPC at 60% of sales, with laminate about 25%-30% of sales and wood accounting for the remainder. We keep three months of inventory.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 14, 2021

When it comes to colors, you are a little different than some others out there. We take a coastal influence on not only our colors but our textures to make sure that both work together. And when you see our color palette next to some of our competitors, you see the significant difference. We like to think so.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 21, 2021

By Reginald Tucker W hen it comes to hardwood flooring sourcing , so much of the focus has been trained on Asia—rightfully so given the manufacturing prowess and scale of the scores of suppliers in that region of the world. said Paul Rezuke, vice president of sales. That’s no coincidence, according to the folks at Boa-Franc. “We

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 30, 2021

8-inch platform, features contemporary, modern oaks that reflect the same trends that are driving real wood sales. Lions Floor has been working closely with its supplier partners in Asia to come up with ways to improve on the product’s resistance to moisture. The product, constructed on a 3?8-inch It’s a stable material.”.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 17, 2022

Grand Estate is an oil-finished collection, a first for Anderson Tuftex, that launched in 10 trendy but classic colors. A final stain gives it more of an amber color; the finishing process we use preserves the natural look of the wood.”. Create Flooring. 2-inch European oak with a sliced veneer). 2 to 9 inches.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 3, 2022

The products that we get are primarily from Asia, and they use eucalyptus and other local species for the core. We’re trying to find a high-quality option,” said Wade Bondrowski, director of sales, U.S. Most, if not all, of our hardwood products come from Southeast Asia,” Stepp said. We don’t have that issue.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 21, 2021

Suppliers across the board—including domestic manufacturers, Canadian importers, Brazilian producers and even those who source from Asia—attested to the positive impact the novel coronavirus had on purchases and installations of hardwood flooring in 2020 and beyond. Both of those segments are off.”. We see wide-width demand in 3?4-inch

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Floor Covering News

MAY 18, 2022

“Domestic laminate flooring has certainly enjoyed a surge during the COVID-19 period and resulting global supply chain restraints both from availability and the dramatic transport cost increases we have seen from Asia and Europe,” explained Kevin Brown, executive vice president of sales and marketing. “We

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 15, 2022

But while those attributes have helped the category maintain consistent sales volume of $1 billion-plus in the U.S. This is primarily to support surging sales of both its RevWood- and Pergo-branded product lines. All of that makes SPC or any product you’re trying to import very pricey and difficult to get. “We

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 18, 2021

Our sales staff and designers are working overtime trying to keep up with demand—the amount of retail business we have seen in the past nine months has been astonishing. For ReFloor’s Elias, for example, the company’s strategy of inventory-only sales stays in place regardless of promises from suppliers. “We echoed Boulant’s sentiments.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

As our fast-paced industry delivers all types of new products or hybrids of products, along comes confusion,” said Derek Brooks, Torlys’ senior vice president sales and business development-North America. sales, Mercier Wood Flooring. or Canada—or if it’s made in Asia, it is still produced using North American wood products.”.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 10, 2020

“At HomerWood, our mission is to provide upscale and highly sellable products that delight the consumer and allow our dealer partners to enjoy attractive margins at good volumes,” said Steve Staikos, general sales manager, AHF Products. “As As an added benefit, our HomerWood products remain 100% duty and tariff-free.”. In the U.S.,

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