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Tidying Up: How to Clean Up Different Tile Types

Architectural Ceramics

While we can’t help you clean out your closet by purging, thanking, or folding your clothes, Architectural Ceramics can help you clean your tile floor or backsplash. Check out the following tips below, organized into categories, to care for and maintain your porcelain, ceramic, glass or natural stone tile. Machine-Made Ceramics.

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Renew Lab Partners adds PTL to the stable

Floor Covering News

The acquisition of PTL allows Renew Lab Partners to further develop its testing capabilities for a wider range of products. These include: carpet, underlayment, fibers, fabrics, turf, laminate flooring, ceramic tile, wood, LVT, SPC and other resilient flooring, vacuums, cleaning chemicals and automotive parts.

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STATS: Laminate performance ends losing streak

Floor Covering News

laminate flooring market that hadn’t occurred since 2015— the category actually grew in terms of both sales and volume. FCNews research pegged laminate flooring sales at the first point of distribution in the U.S. of total flooring sales and 5.6% By Reginald Tucker In 2020, something interesting happened in the U.S.

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Are Amazon, Wayfair a threat to specialty retail?

Floor Covering News

Despite maintaining extensive product selections, logistics hubs and customer service centers, Amazon and Wayfair appear to be flying under the radar in the residential flooring business. We monitor traffic and closing rates in each location, and if we lose an order we document who won the project.”

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Wood: Imitators make a play, but nothing beats the real thing

Floor Covering News

The popularity (and affordability) of laminate flooring posed a threat to the wood flooring sector when that new product category came on to the scene in the U.S. Thanks to advancements in printing and screening technologies, for example, ceramic and porcelain products can be made to look like wood. Wood equates to longevity.

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“I Owe a Lot to This Industry”

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

One-on-One with Donato Pompo, Ceramic Tile and Stone Consultants. Most importantly, he is the founder of San Diego-based Ceramic Tile and Stone Consultants, and the University of Tile and Stone, a pre-eminent provider of education to industry employees and customers. Jeffrey Steele. TD: What did you learn from your father’s experience?

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“Preserving the Past – Protecting the Future” by Jeffrey Steele

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

Twelve years got me oriented in the tile world, in charge of sales and marketing for what was basically a small company where we not only made our tiles by hand but also made all the machinery we used to make the tiles. My background is in art, but not in ceramics. That’s an important thing to document. If so, how?