Floor Covering News

MAY 25, 2021

FCNews research shows commercial flooring revenues (including specified business as well as Main Street sales) totaled $6.134 billion last year—a falloff of 11.1% The corporate market took the biggest hit in 2020 as its share fell from 42% of sales in 2019 to approximately 38% last year. compared to 2019. and 4.3%, respectively.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 8, 2023

In a repeat performance, Mohawk and Engineered Floors were the big winners in Floor Covering News ’ 27 th annual Award of Excellence competition , with Mohawk winning Best Overall in the over $5 billion category and Engineered Floors taking honors in the under $5 billion category. All were repeat winners.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 4, 2023

The waterproof label has transcended its rigid core roots and is now touted across a variety of flooring constructions—from SPC to tile and even hardwood and underlayment. Vinyl, hardwood, laminate Luxury vinyl flooring and all its iterations remains one of the hottest categories to date with growth outpacing all other categories.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 15, 2023

—Chilewich has appointment Melissa Villa as senior vice president of contract sales. This position marks Villa’s return to Chilewich, where she served as contract sales director for the New York area from April 2018 through January 2020.

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Architectural Ceramics

AUGUST 25, 2017

The strength and density of porcelain results in a higher PSI level, making it suitable for floor applications and commercial spaces. The Saadian Tombs in Marrakech, pictured above, show how glazed ceramic tile was used to cover the floors and walls. This thicker tile may be used indoor or out, on walls and floors. ″ x 9.5″

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

FCNews reveals the winners of its third annual FCNnovation Awards—an initiative designed to recognize and showcase some of the most innovative new products and technologies launched in the current year. Anderson Tuftex Discover Discover was designed with no pattern match required for installation.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 15, 2023

B arcelona , S pain — Unilin Technologies, the IP and technology arm of Mohawk Industries, and its digital printing partner Barberán recently hosted an open house here where the two companies showcased the technical aspects of digital printing for the flooring industry, particularly for SPC and laminate. Why do people want no repeats?

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 26, 2023

C hi c ago —The 54 th edition of NeoCon, the commercial design industry’s premier tradeshow event held here earlier this month, was alight with enthusiastic optimism and collaboration as the show truly emulated its 2023 theme: “Together We Design.” I think design follows that. Those meetings were all really positive as well.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 17, 2021

It will come as no surprise that resilient—mostly by the rigid core sub-segments—registered gains in 2020 while many other flooring categories did not. FCNews research showed the category generated $6.589 billion in sales in 2020 —an industry-leading 21.3% increase over 2019’s $5.433 billion. Supply chain challenges.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 30, 2020

There are two ways to look at the flooring industry as a whole in 2019, depending on whether ones sees the glass as half full or half empty. On one hand, sales eclipsed the $23 billion mark for the first time since 2006. FCNews’ exclusive research reveals total 2019 flooring sales topped out at $23.07 billion and 19.07

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 1, 2024

Engineered Floors started 100% production of its new rigid core offering, PureGrain DLVT, at its Seretean Plant in Dalton in 2023. Rigid core flooring like SPC is traditionally an imported product. While its origin has expanded beyond China to include other areas of Asia and Europe, imports have reigned supreme for years.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 4, 2020

Last year saw companies actively rethinking their supply chain, either convincing their Chinese partners to relocate to Southeast Asia to avoid tariffs, or by opting out of sourcing from China altogether. manufacturing appeared first on Floor Covering News. The report found that manufacturing imports from China were the hardest hit.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 11, 2022

W hile some in the industry may remember Bella Flooring Group as a consortium of Chinese manufacturers tempered on inexpensive product and lackluster service, the newly rebranded and reinvigorated Bella has set its sights on supporting the needs of the retail community with innovative product lines, U.S. Dominie explained. Proving its worth.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 10, 2022

Over the past 26 years, Floor Covering News has presented the coveted Award of Excellence to the most deserving flooring manufacturers. Once again, we are asking floor covering retailers to cast their votes in the 2022 Award of Excellence competition. Which have maintained their service levels? This year is especially important.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 10, 2022

Over the past 26 years, Floor Covering News has presented the coveted Award of Excellence to the most deserving flooring manufacturers. Once again, we are asking floor covering retailers to cast their votes in the 2022 Award of Excellence competition. Which have maintained their service levels? This year is especially important.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 19, 2024

DeCarlo, who was instrumental in building Shaw’s LVT business from the ground up, has designs on growing LX Hausys’ market share in the U.S. LX Hausys was grouped around mostly interior building materials, from windows to countertops to wall coverings to flooring. The SPC is unique in that it’s on a continuous range.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

By Reginald Tucker— With the hardwood flooring category facing so much competition from alternative (and often less-expensive) categories designed to emulate real wood, one might assume that the upper-mid-range to higher end of the hardwood flooring might suffer. The product is doing well,” Ward said.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 30, 2021

By Reginald Tucker Las Vegas—Even before the current shipping woes fueled backlogs in deliveries of many rigid core products, industry observers had already begun gauging a renewed interest in the laminate flooring category—particularly homegrown products. Within the RevWood offering, for example, the Bellente line was a standout at the show.

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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. A prime example is Boa-Franc, maker of the Mirage brand of hardwood floors.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 29, 2021

Republic Floor has come a long way in six and a half years. 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. They’re designing papers.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 21, 2021

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%. of dollar sales for the gradually increasing hard surface market and 24.6% Department of Commerce.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 30, 2021

By Reginald Tucker Las Vegas—Even before the current shipping woes fueled backlogs in deliveries of many rigid core products, industry observers had already begun gauging a renewed interest in the laminate flooring category—particularly homegrown products. Within the RevWood offering, for example, the Bellente line was a standout at the show.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 17, 2022

By Reginald Tucker—After several years of losing market share to wood-look products, wood flooring is regaining momentum. That’s according to research conducted by the National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA), which estimates solid wood floors saw a 20% increase in 2021, ending the year with the highest share rate since 2007.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 15, 2022

Inhaus sources and scans real hardwood flooring planks to create more realistic laminate visuals. Pictured is a design based on Brazilian walnut. But while those attributes have helped the category maintain consistent sales volume of $1 billion-plus in the U.S. Innovations galore.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 18, 2021

The crisis has undercut efforts by retailers, suppliers and distributors to capitalize on the booming demand for flooring and is projected to continue throughout the next several months. While supply issues have reverberated across categories, retailers note a greater challenge when it comes to resilient flooring in particular. “It

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Must-have characteristics to look for in a reliable wood flooring supplier. T here are scores of hardwood flooring suppliers in the market today, but not all are created equal. First, retailers need to look for a hardwood supplier that’s easy to do business with,” said Dewevai Buchanan, CEO of Nature Flooring-North America.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 9, 2021

As it turns out, the flooring industry has its disrupters as well. For the flooring industry, the pandemic has caused major supply chain disruptions that impacted manufacturers and distributors and, eventually, retailers—who at times throughout 2020 were out of stock on certain products. Supply chain issues persist to this day.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 19, 2021

By Megan Salzano While 2020 was anything but ordinary, there was one thing the flooring industry could count on: the continued popularity of the resilient category. It will come as no surprise that resilient—led mostly by the rigid core/SPC sub-segments —once again registered gains while many other flooring categories in 2020 did not.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 10, 2020

Hydropel, infused with proprietary technology to resist water for up to 36 hours, earned a Good Design award for 2019. When Brian Carson took the reins as president and CEO of AHF Products in February 2019, he announced “very aggressive plans” for the company that had been spun off from Armstrong Flooring the year prior.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 12, 2021

By Reginald Tucker F rom its inception in Europe in the early 1990s to its highly touted debut in the North American market later that same decade, laminate flooring provided a durable, tough, hard surface flooring option for consumers looking for alternatives to more costly options such as hardwood, tile and stone.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It’s only a matter of time before the flooring industry is released from inflation’s grip and suppli­ers and their retail partners can take full advantage of strong housing fundamentals—including an aging housing stock in need of renovation and pent-up demand for new home sales. Precisely when that occurs is the $64,000 question.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 3, 2023

Containers came down, supply chain would ease; More stuff from Southeast Asia in lieu of Chinese. It was exciting to see Shaw return to the floor; An absence of 13 years, maybe more. It was exciting to see Shaw return to the floor; An absence of 13 years, maybe more. Wherever you looked from floor to roof.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

T he resilient category has been the powerhouse of the flooring industry for the last several years—with rigid core products leading the charge. VP of residential sales, COREtec. The resilient category will grow in 2023 and continue to take share within flooring. However, rigid core is not without its challenges. Steve Sieracki.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Flooring executives already know the coming year will harbor plenty of hardships that will need to be confronted. Steve Ehrlich VP business & operations Novalis “Ongoing uncertainty related to new home builds, home prices and mortgage rates and the impact they will have on flooring activity.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 14, 2021

When I made the move in 2017, we were Cali Bamboo with an eco-conscious consumer seeking the most sustainable flooring available. Think of us as the “In and Out Burger” of floor covering. We are styled with a designer in Southern California, but our coastal influence goes throughout the entire country. That is correct.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 18, 2022

laminate flooring market is currently experiencing is not merely a coincidence, but rather the natural course of a still-evolving product category that is continuing to grow in the face of intense pressure from competing hard surface segments. Some call it a comeback; others say it’s perfect timing. is no fluke.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

That’s a message one flooring executive had to say about 2023. People were increasingly going back to work, inflation and interest rates were going up, supply chains began to improve and ships coming from Asia and Europe got here faster. chief operating officer, Engineered Floors. The sky is not falling. James Lesslie.

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