Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Arlington, Va.—Coverings, the largest international tile and stone exhibition and conference in North America, has unveiled the second Coverings Connected webinar schedule and opened registration. The multi-session, digital experience is scheduled to take place Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020, on the Coverings website. Attendees of the digital experience will be presented with a variety of complimentary tile and stone industry content, including three live educational webinars that offer Continuing Edu

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Diary of a Tile Addict

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

For tile design studio Elisa Passino the most important thing is that beauty goes hand-in-hand with sustainability. Founded just last year (by Elisa Passino), the studio creates collections designed to be timeless, finding inspiration in heritage whilst looking to the future for innovation. Capitello and Abaco. The products are durable, offering ranges that are futureproof, not only in their materials, but in their decorative merits and focus on sustainability.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Tarkett’s Easy Living collection includes a herringbone wood pattern. Solon, Ohio—Tarkett is adding 28 new designs to its FiberFloor residential luxury sheet vinyl flooring, giving homeowners access to the latest design trends in products that surpass the industry’s most stringent health and safety standards, the company said. The new designs are available across Tarkett’s Fresh Start, Easy Living & Lifetime collections, and include trend-forward encaustics, woods and marble and stone looks.

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JG Kitchens

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Are you one of the estimated 10 million Americans who suffer from seasonal affective disorder -- otherwise known as the winter blues or SAD? If so, your symptoms might have started to kick in with last weekend's "fall back" time change. Check out some solutions here. The post How To Battle Seasonal Affective Disorder With Wellness Design comes to you courtesy of Jamie Gold, CKD, CAPS, MCCWC, Wellness Design Consultant and Author.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

By Megan Salzano. Like most sundry products, adhesives can be considered the backbone of any flooring installation. They are a necessary part of a successful project both in the short term and to secure the longevity of an installation. As such, the performance of those adhesives is key. Adhesives provide a range of performance attributes dependent on need, and these value-added features remain the drivers of innovation in the category.

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Stone Update

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In-person show announced as China relaxes general ban on air travel by foreigners.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

By Steven Feldman. Calhoun, Ga.—Excitement is building less than two months before Mohawk kicks off its seven-city Momentum Roadshow. As preparations continue to take shape, the company said flooring dealers are signing up in droves to attend these events as they look to return to some degree of normalcy in 2021. Mohawk is demonstrating its investment in retailer success by wasting no time as the first of the seven events kicks off five days after the calendar flips to 2021.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Dallas, Texas—Daltile has launched its latest tile collection, Famed. Famed is a porcelain tile assortment for floor and wall that offers the durability of porcelain with the beauty of marble designs, the company said. “Our new Famed porcelain tile collection provides the look of five gorgeous marble designs, in on-trend colors, including a modern beige, warm whites and warm and cool greys,” said Laura Grilli, lead product designer for Daltile.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

By Reginald Tucker. The protracted U.S. trade war with China—and the subsequent reciprocal tariffs and duties on both sides—has had tangible ramifications on the flooring industry. This is particularly evident in segments such as LVT, SPC and WPC , but also engineered hardwood and laminate flooring. And while certain segments of the industry enjoyed a temporary tariff reprieve on select rigid core products, those exemptions have since expired.

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