Floor Covering News

JUNE 27, 2022

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 Lowe’s reported flooring sales of $4.95 Floor & De?cor cor reported sales of $3.43 billion, up 11.4%

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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

JULY 5, 2022

The resurgent laminate flooring category continued on its upward trajectory in 2021 as sales reached $1.304 billion, FCNews research shows. That $1.304 billion also represents the highest level of laminate sales seen since 2006. That $1.304 billion also represents the highest level of laminate sales seen since 2006.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 5, 2022

Europe, Asia and the Middle East are the three next largest geographic areas. The post Tile of Spain outlines 2022 ceramic trends appeared first on Floor Covering News. According to Nomdedeu, Spain continues to export its tiles to more than 180 countries around the world, with the USA accounting for 22.9% of its exports.

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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

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 28-30, at Mandalay Bay.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 20, 2021

By Reginald Tucker The hardwood flooring category continued to feel the effects of the rising popularity of competing wood look-alike alternatives in 2020, as the hardwood segment took another hit for the second year running. of the total flooring market in 2020 in terms of dollars. sales, Mercier Wood Flooring. “We

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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

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

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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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 3, 2023

These awards honor groundbreaking ideas and industry-changing concepts that have the potential to impact the way flooring is manufactured, promoted and sold. Premier Flooring Center. For retail sales associates, PFC is intended to be the easiest way to sell flooring—with confidence and simplicity. Europe and Asia/Pacific.

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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. Changing the rules.

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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

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 21, 2023

These awards honor groundbreaking ideas and industry-changing concepts that have the potential to impact the way flooring is manufactured, promoted and sold. As the click system ensures perfect alignment of the tiles, installation of a FlinTile floor does not require any specific tools or the use of spacers.

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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

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

JUNE 9, 2020

economy—and the commercial flooring market is no exception. 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. Heading into 2020, commercial flooring was on pace to sustain modest growth across the board.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 9, 2021

Sweden—Bjelin, owned by Välinge majority shareholder, Pervanovo Invest AB, began construction of what the company said is the world’s largest wood flooring factory in Ogulin, Croatia. It is slated to be used for the production of flooring featuring Woodura surface technology under license from Välinge Innovation. “I

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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

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. It needs to feel like a real hardwood.”

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 22, 2021

The disruption has the potential to impact flooring retailers well into 2021 as they scramble to fill customer needs at a time of strong sales activity. According to Freightos, which operates an online international freight marketplace, locations in Asia to both the U.S. imported a record $219.8 A case in point is R.C.

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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

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

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

JUNE 26, 2023

Numerous exhibition spaces and private showrooms touted new flooring lines based around collaboration from both a design and narrative perspective. 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.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 26, 2023

With this new agreement Kastamonu becomes the first flooring manufacturer in Turkey to sign a license agreement for the coating technology developed by Unilin. With the adoption by Kastamonu, the Unicoat technology will now be used by some of the largest players in the industry in North America, Europe and Asia, according to Unilin.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The American Flooring Distributor lineup comprises SPC rigid core flooring and waterproof laminate. T he hyper-competitive segment like waterproof flooring —particularly SPC and waterproof laminate—has ushered in a bevy of new players looking to get in on the action. American Flooring Distributor (AFD) is one of those companies.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2024

Flooring executives already know the coming year will harbor plenty of hardships that will need to be confronted. That’s not happening, which is hampering flooring of all kinds.” Brian Carson president & CEO AHF Products “Slower remodel activity and consumers buying plastic floors, but mostly high interest rates.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

20, 2021, flooring industry leaders are mulling what impact President-elect Joe Biden and his policies might have on business. Stimulus was vital in a rapid restart of our economy and can only help again,” said Craig Phillips, president, Carpet Country and Barrington Carpet & Flooring Design, Twinsburg, Ohio. By Ken Ryan.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 8, 2021

and Asia (excluding Cambodia) and 3% across domestically produced solid hardwood. At AHF Products, we are committed to helping customers grow their business through superior service, high-quality products and high-style flooring at competitive prices,” said Chris King, vice president-sales.

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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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