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AHF unveils Comfortstone engineered stone

Floor Covering News

—AHF Products introduced Bruce Comfortstone engineered stone tile, featuring the look of natural stone and ceramic. Made with a durable composite material made primarily of crushed limestone, Comfortstone is an innovative alternative to natural stone. “We Like stone and ceramic, Comfortstone is incredibly durable.

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Natural stone 101: Understanding the basics

Floor Covering News

Natural stone can be a hard product category for some retailers to get into. One, for example, is its truly unique look, and that’s not just from stone type to stone type but from installation to installation, derived from the stones inherently irreplicable features—unlike look-alike products in adjacent categories.

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Ceramic: The pros and cons of natural stone

Floor Covering News

When it comes to natural stone, specialty retail has it tough. However, natural stone has its advantages—i.e., In an effort to help retailers in that endeavor, three suppliers gave FCNews their best advice on how to deal with the challenges of natural stone while also tapping the inherent advantages of the category.

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Back to Basics: Which material is right for my design?

Architectural Ceramics

When designing for a tile project, there are more factors than just color and style to keep in mind. Architectural Ceramics carries a wide variety of materials each with their own features. Should you choose stone, ceramic, glass or something else? Natural stone is harvested from quarries and then cut to various sizes.

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Porcelain Tile vs. Ceramic Tile

Tile Talk

Since launching our new line of Porcelain Pool Tile earlier this month, we''ve been getting a lot of questions about what makes porcelain tile better than ceramic tile. More commonly, the question is simply, "What is the difference between porcelain and ceramic tile?" Porcelain tile is a type of ceramic tile and nothing more.

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SikaTile, Merkrete to present at TISE 2024

Floor Covering News

The color-consistent, efflorescence-free grout is ideal for interior and exterior residential and commercial installations. SikaTile-815 Secure Grout is suitable for dimensional stone, slate, granite, stone agglomerates and most types of ceramic, ceramic mosaic, quarry, brick paver, porcelain, glass and clay tile installations.

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March Madness: ACI’s Final Four Tile Matchups

Architectural Ceramics

With the final four games this weekend, Architectural Ceramics put together our own final four match ups, and it’s just what you’d expect: tile. Let’s see how your tile picks compare to a few of our own; and which material, porcelain, ceramic, glass or stone is favored to take it all.