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Cambodia’s Antique Patterned Cement Tile Floors

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The Khmer Rouge may have destroyed much of the population and vitality of Cambodia in the 1970’s but the lovely cement tile floors in the old districts lived through it all. p] in north west Cambodia is a town adjacent to the Angkor World Heritage Site, location of the world famous ancient Angkor Wat temple complex.

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Q&A: Reshoring movement takes on greater urgency

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China relations as well as both current and potential foreign direct investment activity in America, FCNews managing editor, Reginald Tucker, sat down with Harry Moser, founder and president of the Reshoring Initiative. President Biden’s policy approach to China. Harry Moser. Unintended consequences of trade wars. However, some U.S.-based

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Scoring Flooring: Industry Stats for 2019

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The not-so-good news is that it is becoming obvious that resilient is cannibalizing dollars from just about every other flooring category, all of which were either down slightly or significantly in both dollars and volume, with the exception of ceramic, which posted a very modest increase. Ceramic tile flooring by the numbers.

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Industry disrupters 2024: Internal factors, external forces upend status quo

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The segment posted astronomical gains year over year, beating out every other flooring category in terms of growth and stole share from carpet, hardwood, ceramic and laminate. Customs and Border Protection added PVC as a “sector of concern” when inspecting shipments from China.

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STATS: Wood finds silver lining amid challenges

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While hardwood still represents the third-largest hard surface category behind resilient and ceramic with respect to sales, the gap continues to widen. While hardwood flooring imports from South America, Southeast Asia and Europe rose slightly in 2020, hardwood flooring shipments from China to the U.S. Impact of imports. but globally.

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The Industry Disrupters of 2020

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Huali Floors, a China-based manufacturer of resilient flooring, will establish its first U.S. In 2019, Arte Mundi China , one of the largest manufacturers of engineered hardwood flooring in China, announced plans to build a hardwood flooring finishing plant in Chino, Calif. I4F/Hymmen digital printing on ceramic.

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STATS: SPC segment continues to lead the charge

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When compared to ceramic tile, hardwood, laminate and other hard surface materials, resilient accounted for 50.6% We saw single-family grow, and in some cases that did take share from other categories—hardwood, porcelain and ceramic tile are good examples of that,” Shaw‘s Hash explained. increase from 4.564 billion in 2019.