Architectural Ceramics

AUGUST 25, 2017

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. AC’s Basics Collection , is a simple one with a white subway tile at its core. As a result, the tile expands and contracts.

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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. FCNews’ exclusive research reveals total 2019 flooring sales topped out at $23.07 Flooring currently sits just 4.6% On the other hand, the 0.4% That’s the good news. billion and 19.07

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 30, 2023

hardwood flooring category took a big step back in 2022. Floor Covering News research shows hardwood flooring revenues fell 9.8% Industry observers attribute the disparity in sales to volume activity primarily to higher material and production costs in the face of slower sales. of all hard surface flooring products.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 5, 2023

laminate flooring category generated in late 2020 and throughout 2021 continued to positively impact segment sales in 2022. Floor Covering News research shows the U.S. laminate flooring market generated approximately $1.382 billion in sales last year at the first point of sale—an uptick of 6% over the year prior. in 2021 to 12.5%

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 6, 2020

Armstrong Flooring has received Good Design awards for Rigid Core Vantage, Migrations and Striations BBT, and Alterna engineered tile. It recognizes the latest, most advanced products and designs for their innovation and invention. Winning products are featured on the Good Design website. Rigid Core Vantage.

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Tile Talk

MAY 20, 2014

Islamic Star Patterns in Tile Design. Iran or Central Asia, 15th Century. Dating back to as early as the 7th century the Islamic Arts have influenced an array of cultures and societies, such as the notable geometric designs in their tile work. Lets Talk Tile. Avente Tile Talk. Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Image Credit.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Las Vegas—I4F, a group of companies providing patents and technologies to the flooring industry, has introduced True Grout on SPC/rigid core tiles and planks. Using the technology, licensee partners can offer unprecedented durability as well as an innovative middle grout line mimicking two tiles in one. Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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Rubble Tile

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Rubble Tile is thrilled to introduce our newest vendor, Zen Paradise. They are passionate about ensuring their products are natural, high quality, and ethically sourced from Indonesia and Southeast Asia. On the many islands where Zen Paradise’s materials are found, nature produces renewable and abundant.

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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. What’s more, much of the production of these waterproof products is happening right here in the U.S.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

L as V egas —With every major flooring manufacturer represented, and with international attendees returning at their highest level in years, Surfaces ’24 very much hit the mark as the industry’s most important flooring event. “A Flooring dealers agreed Surfaces 2024 stood out in a number of ways. “I People were happy.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 21, 2021

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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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

. “Novalis is continually innovating to provide customers with the highest-quality products in luxury vinyl flooring and a key focus area is on the product’s sustainable attributes—from raw material extraction to end-of-life expectations,” said Jay Thomas, executive director, VSC.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 3, 2021

based flooring manufacturers who continue to ramp up domestic efforts but also overseas suppliers as they build production facilities in the U.S. Engineered Floors completed its massive SAM extrusion plant in Dalton in 2020. We see [in the future] most products within the LVT category being produced in the U.S.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 27, 2022

But back then it was less expensive products like VCT, vinyl sheet, resilient tile and less expensive carpet. About 90% of the product comes from Asia, thus making it the segment most impacted by supply chain disruptions. Home Depot reported flooring sales of $9.225 billion, up 13.1%, or $1.05 Floor & De?cor

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 20, 2023

Europe, Asia and the Caribbean. Beyond his iconic interiors, Bullard is also recognized for his celebrated collections of products for the home, which include textiles, wall coverings, tile, furnishings, appliances, fixtures, rugs and lighting for the world’s finest manufacturers.

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Granada Tile

JUNE 27, 2018

If you’re a connoisseur of stunning interiors looking for a list of interior design blogs featuring beautiful cement tile images, practical advice on installing and incorporating cement tiles into residential and commercial projects and insightful tips on how to make the most of this popular material, you’ve come to the right place.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 18, 2024

In flooring, it can be as explosive as developing completely new product formulations that offer consumers features/benefits not previously available—we’re looking at you, WPC. This year’s Floor Covering News “Industry Disrupters” 2024 issue features all manner of players that are—or are poised to—shake things up.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As the parent company of Benchwick, Northann develops and produces high-quality flooring, wall panels and decorative surfaces in the U.S. As one of the fastest growing flooring producers, Benchwick earned a solid reputation by supplying many of the industry’s well-known SPC, WPC and LVT brands on a strictly private-label basis.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 14, 2022

Mohawk and Engineered Floors were the big winners in FCNews ’ Award of Excellence 2022 competition, with Mohawk winning Best Overall in the over-$5 billion category and Engineered Floors taking honors in the under-$5 billion category. Engineered Floors, meanwhile, was victorious in Group A for carpet. Garden City, N.Y.—Mohawk

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 3, 2023

FCNews has announced the winners of its second annual FCNnovation Awards —a program designed to recognize and showcase some of the most innovative new products and technologies unveiled in the current year. Premier Flooring Center. The selling system’s best product is nylon 6,6—which includes Dixie’s EnVision 6,6 fiber.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 10, 2019

Dallas—The International Surface Event (TISE): SURFACES | StonExpo/Marmomac | TileExpo, the largest North American floor covering, stone, and tile industry event, is in development on a surface and design trade event in Asia for late 2019.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

According to Durkan, the Cosmopolitan collection features a contemporary style inspired by global cultures from across the Americas, Africa, Asia, the Pacific Islands and worldwide tribes, including the Batik, Aztec, Ikat, Kilim and Navajo. The post Durkan launches Cosmopolitan carpet collection appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 29, 2022

hardwood flooring market orchestrated a dramatic turnaround in 2021. FCNews research shows wood flooring sales at the first point of sale in 2021 totaled a record $2.67 The volume growth of the hardwood flooring market in 2021 was equally impressive. billion, a head-turning increase of 21% over 2020. last year. “We

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Floor Covering News

MAY 2, 2022

flooring market—as well as scores of other industries across the country—have touched off a wave of repercussions. market, which still relies on products manufactured outside America to feed the hungry beast that is consumer spending. companies to bring production jobs back to the U.S. getting the bulk of it.”. To help U.S.-based

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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% Every commercial sector was negatively impacted, but some performed better than others,” observed David Thoresen, senior vice president, product and innovation, Armstrong Flooring.

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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. The grout can be easily applied and cleaned afterward, resulting in a fully installed waterproof floor within a couple of hours.

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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

JUNE 26, 2023

Numerous exhibition spaces and private showrooms touted new flooring lines based around collaboration from both a design and narrative perspective. Products, programming and people are integral to NeoCon’s DNA and we think all three elements were super strong this year.” Monday] was an awesome day. billion commercial market in 2022.

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Cement Style

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Villa Lagoon Tile can recreate antique Puerto Rican cement tiles and deliver to your door. Just send us a photo or browse our existing tile patterns and request a quote. We have supplied our colorful cement tiles for residences and restaurants in Puerto Rica. They are water and air cured. See here , here , here and here.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 12, 2021

Thicker, beefier laminate products are offering retailers higher margin opportunities. Fast forward to 2021 and the laminate flooring category finds itself in a position that requires fortitude and strength of a different sort, as it seeks to reassert itself among other durable hard surface products such as LVT, SPC and rigid core hybrids.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 9, 2021

As it turns out, the flooring industry has its disrupters as well. FCNews ’ third annual “Industry Disrupters” issue features innovative players and thinkers who are pushing the envelope in terms of product innovations, technological breakthroughs or simply radical new ways of doing business. Domestic Production.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The flooring industry has felt the pressure as shipping container shortages, not just from China but most of Asia, have caused an ongoing freight crisis and rising prices for importers and their customers. Flooring suppliers told FCNews they have seen as much as 400% increases in shipping container prices over the last six months.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 9, 2020

Pictured is Daltile’s Vertuo, a mix and match collection of porcelain tile featuring two different nature-inspired looks. economy—and the commercial flooring market is no exception. Heading into 2020, commercial flooring was on pace to sustain modest growth across the board. Leading the pack, of course, is resilient flooring.

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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 6, 2023

These were just some of the hot-button topics on the table at the 2022 North American Association of Floor Covering Distributors and North American Building Material Distribution Association (NAFCD + NBMDA) convention held here late last year. Derek Brooks: We buy a lot of product from Europe—probably equal to Asia. But to A.J.’s

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

JULY 7, 2015

I feel extremely lucky to have been a part of the CTDA delegation that went to Istanbul to learn more about Turkey’s ceramic tile industry, as well as their culture. It was wonderful to see everyone enjoying their time together, and of course the topic of the night was TILE. Thursday, June 4th. Day three was quite an adventure.

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