Tue.Sep 25, 2018

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Game Rooms to Make You the Most Popular Neighbor on the Block

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

A game room (or recreational room) is a great place to hang out with family and friends. It also provides peace of mind to have a safe, controlled environment for your kids and their friends to get together. If you’re thinking about creating a rec room in your home, we have several ideas for game rooms that can make you the most popular neighbor on the block.

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How Not to Install Tile on Floors, Walls and in Showers

Ceramic Tile Education Foundation

Sometimes, the best way to explain how important it is to work with a Certified Tile Installer (CTI) is to show you how not to install tile on floors, walls and in showers. This article focuses on a real-life situation where those doing the work (aka tile placers) clearly did not have the knowledge, expertise or experience to deliver a high quality tile installation.

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We Care…About the Koala Bear

Garden State Tile Blog

KOALA wood-look tile provides all the beautiful characteristics of eucalyptus in a durable, sustainable porcelain. Garden State Tile is doing its part to help save koalas. We will adopt a koala on behalf of every client who purchases 2,000 square feet or more of KOALA porcelain tile. The post We Care…About the Koala Bear appeared first on Garden State Tile.

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Sintering Innovations for Ceramic Manufacturing

Ceramic Industry Magazine

In addition to classic sintering methods such as vacuum and gas pressure sintering, sinter hot isostatic pressing (HIP) and hot pressing, sintering processes enhanced by electrical fields have grown considerably in importance in the last decade.

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BWG holds open house, golf outing

Floor Covering News

Mansfield, Mass.—The Belknap White Group (BWG) held an open house on Sept. 11 at its Solution Center in Rochester, N.Y. The informative evening offered the latest in flooring design ideas, new and exciting materials, finishing touches and installation products. Educational, hands-on demonstrations included new tools and a ceramic/shower installation segment, with 13 top suppliers demonstrating products and […].

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DESIGN NJ FALL 2018

Garden State Tile Blog

This issue is chock full of great articles — several including Garden State Tile! See our ad on page 12 announcing our new Princeton, NJ showroom. On page 30, Marca Corona 4D is the feature product. Looking to start a tile renovation and don’t know where to begin? See our advice on page 85 for planning, design tips, and more. The folks from Design NJ also visited our new Princeton showroom before the big reveal.

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How to Balance out Those Trendy, Bold Colors in Your Interior Design

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

There’s no getting around it. Bold colors are in – and they look like they’re here to stay. That said, these shades can be tricky to handle when it actually comes down to putting a design together. That’s where we come in. We’ve compiled a list of our best tips and tricks for handling strong hues in any interior design. Read on below to learn how you can make these trendy shades work in your home.

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Eclectic Kitchens That Are Too Good To Be True

Trendir Magazine

Eclectic décor is one of the most difficult decorating styles to pull off; this is mainly due to the numerous components the trendy style has to offer. However, when it is done correctly, it’s a beautiful, artistic display of unique pieces that somehow work very well together. Whether you’re interested in redecorating your kitchen or you are considering an eclectic touch, these eclectic kitchens are sure to inspire you along the way.

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The power of Mean Green

Kitchen and Residential Design

Mean Green has been a part of my life for nine months already and I have to say that in all honesty, it’s become one of my go to products for cleaning up around the house. It gets used all over the place but the place where it gets used more than anywhere else is my kitchen. I’ve been baking and cooking instructor for three years now and as culinary instruction has taken over a larger portion of my professional life, so has the amount of time I spend in our kitchen.

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UNION PROCESS, INC.: Updated Lab Equipment

Ceramic Industry Magazine

Union Process, Inc. recently announced that it has built and installed a new laboratory-sized DMQX™ bead mill in its lab for the purpose of testing customers’ material.

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Drain Clogs 101

Kitchen and Residential Design

I live in an older home and for the most part, when things are working around here I don’t pay too much attention to them. However, one of the charms of living in an older home is that the line between working quietly in the background and catastrophic failure can be a painfully thin one. This house has been added onto at least three times in the last 50 years and with each addition, the already stretched-thin plumbing system has been stretched even thinner.

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Saint-Gobain to Acquire Additional Shares in Hankuk Glass Industries Subsidiary

Ceramic Industry Magazine

Hankuk Glass Industries (HGI), a South Korean subsidiary of Saint-Gobain that is listed on the Seoul stock exchange, launched a tender offer to acquire the 23% of its shares owned by minority shareholders.

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Pigments Continue to Dominate Uses for Titanium Dioxide

Ceramic Industry Magazine

In 2017, 15 Mt of ilmenite, rutile, and titanium slag were processed worldwide, according to a recent titanium dioxide (TiO 2 ) market study.

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