As The Tile Turns

MARCH 24, 2022

From Aspen to Denver and beyond, Decorative Materials has built strong relationships with designers throughout the state of Colorado. One of our most inspiring clients is based in the lovely town of Telluride: ZINQUE Design. Self-described as a “comprehensive design firm,” ZINQUE was founded by Aura Zink and CC Rocque. A memorable portmanteau pulling from their last names, ZIN k and Roc QUE , led to a name as distinctive as the design services this dream team provides.

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Granada Tile

MARCH 24, 2022

Cement tile on walls is a transformative way to complete a room. These tiles stand up to heavy wear inside or outside. The options are endless—the style? Unique! Discover ways to spice up any space with gorgeous cement tile walls. Fantastic Tile Walls. Cement tile walls fit any area, no matter the shape or size. Their versatility and endless combinations create stunning foyers that people notice as soon as they enter your home.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2022

Angie Halford Ré mosaic. Pendleton, S.C.—The Ceramic Tile Education Foundation (CTEF) will raffle off an original Angie Halford Ré American Flag mosaic, donated by Ron Nash, president and COO, North America, Laticrete International Inc., on Thursday, April 7, 2022, during Coverings, the Global Tile & Stone Experience, in Las Vegas, Nevada, in NTCA Booth N2862 at 3 p.m.

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Why Tile

MARCH 23, 2022

As we continue our celebration of National Tile Day and countdown to Coverings 2022, we have another 2022 tile trend to share with you. This week, we are focusing on tile with organic textures. While textured tile has been trending for a while, this year is somewhat different. Unlike the angular geometric patterns and textures… The post 2022 Tile Trends: Organic Texture appeared first on Why Tile.

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Rubble Tile

MARCH 24, 2022

Handmade, one-of-a-kind tiles add a truly unique and distinctive character to any space. The fine details that are the marks of hand-craftsmanship may be pretty subtle, but they can go far in making a home feel like a home. Since 1993, Syzygy Tile has been.

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JG Kitchens

MARCH 23, 2022

Last week marked two years since the governor of California issued a shelter-at-home order, impacting 39 million residents. Other states quickly followed. Americans brought their work, studies, fitness, entertainment and elderly relatives home. Our worlds shrank to our living spaces and screens. . The post Covid Anniversary Offers Four Wellness Design Lessons comes to you courtesy of Jamie Gold, CKD, CAPS, MCCWC, Wellness Design Consultant and Author.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 25, 2022

By Jacqueline Hinchcliffe—As hard surface flooring continues to evolve and grow in popularity, the need for the appropriate underlayment grows along with it. While it might not be visible once these floors are installed, underlayments serve critical functions. For one, they provide an effective sound barrier, which can be especially beneficial to those working from home in shared spaces.

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Margaret Almon Mosaics

MARCH 25, 2022

I participated in a color duo challenge organized by several illustrators. I wanted to make Log Cabin Pendants with my larger square bezels that had been languishing in the proverbial drawer since 2018. A list of color pairs was a way to start!The ones above are Pomegranate/Kelly Green, Lavender/Mulberry, Cerulean/Strawberry, Avocado/Pink Candy Floss and Carrot/Coffee.The whimsical color names were wonderful, once I got past wanting to know “official definitions.” Check more Coloric

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Onfloor Technology

MARCH 25, 2022

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2022

Flooring retailers, Strahil Chernev and Sharon Cherneva, traveled nearly 5,000 miles from Fairbanks, Alaska, to attend the Alliance Flooring convention. Orlando—As Alliance Flooring celebrated its 25-year history here last week, it was hard not to focus on the group’s bright future. The long-planned succession of executive leadership from Ron Dunn/Jon Logue to Ryan Dunn/Kevin Logue is now complete as the sons share co-CEO duties.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 20, 2022

Every good architecture project has a concept. Every. Single One. This is the Big Idea that you will build your entire project around and if you look at your project and can’t recognize it, you need to keep working until you’ve developed one. Today, Andrew and I will be discussing what this might mean and what it possibly looks like. The post Ep 096: The Big Idea first appeared on Life of an Architect.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2022

O ne definition of “disrupt” is to interrupt by causing a disturbance or problem. But in the business world, to disrupt isn’t a pejorative—it’s a badge of honor, an example of a company that is constantly pushing the envelope to do things better, to dare to be different without worrying about how things have always been done. FCNews’ fourth annual Industry Disrupters issue features innovative players and thinkers who are changing the game in terms of product enhancements, technological breakthro

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 24, 2022

Sylmar, Calif.— Walker Zanger, a luxury brand in tile and slabs, has officially launched a new website. According to the company, the recent upgrade was designed with the emphasis on better serving its dealer and distributor network and providing customers with an easy-to-navigate platform to find the perfect product for their project. The new website, built from the ground up, took almost a year of research, design and development, and the company said is its first step toward modernizing its s

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 24, 2022

Santa Monica, Calif.— Emser Tile has been awarded a 2022 Top Workplaces USA national award by Energage, a technology company that empowers workplace excellence. “We are honored to be recognized with Energage’s Top Workplaces 2022 Award,” said Carl Delia, president, Emser Tile. “What makes this even more noteworthy is that it is a direct result of feedback provided by our highly talented and customer-focused employees.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 22, 2022

By Steven Feldman—Olga Robertson, president of FCA Network, will be honored later this month with Floor Covering News’ ninth annual Al Wahnon Lifetime Achievement Award. In doing so, Robertson becomes the first female to win this award. The award will be presented to Robertson at FCA Network’s annual convention in New Orleans on March 29. “When FCNews launched this award back in 2010, the idea was to honor individuals who had not yet received industry- wide recognition, specifically but not limi

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 23, 2022

By Ken Ryan—Students are one step closer to becoming flooring installers thanks to a partnership between the Floor Covering Education Foundation (FCEF) and Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) that has recently received accreditation. Starting this fall, students enrolled at GNTC’s Dalton campus can sign up for a 3-credit course (FI-41 – Flooring Installation Technician)—on a path to a technical certificate of credit.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 23, 2022

Las Vegas—The Ceramic Tile Education Foundation (CTEF) invites the tile industry to its booth (N3163) at Coverings 2022, taking place here, April 5-8, 2022 , for a demonstration of “GPTP By the Standard” and to witness the Mud Walls and Mud Floors Advanced Certifications for Tile Installers (ACT) program tests. Advanced Certifications for Tile Installers.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 24, 2022

By Reginald Tucker—T he well-documented supply chain disruptions originally caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic—now further exacerbated by inflation , runaway energy prices and other major global events—have impacted virtually every level of the flooring industry. Small and large firms alike are not immune to the wide-ranging repercussions that supply logjams, delivery delays and personnel shortages have wrought on the industry.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 23, 2022

Altamonte Springs, Fla.— Kährs identified six interior design trends projected to be popular in 2022 and beyond. These trends were identified by the Kährs product manager of innovation and design, Petra Lundblad. Following are six trends for 2022, according to Lundblad: Light Scandinavian. The popularity of Scandinavian interiors grew over the past years and will be seen again in 2022.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 24, 2022

By Reginald Tucker—Broadlume utilized its first-ever Virtual Town Hall meeting, held on March 23, as the platform to make several major announcements. The first of which entailed its strategic acquisition of BanaBoom, a web-based platform providing floor covering retailers with integrated solutions from the front office to the back end. The purchase comes on the heels of Broadlume’s purchase of RollMaster last fall. .

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 24, 2022

Sugar Valley, Ga.— Karastan Rugs is returning to High Point Market, bringing new collections from design leaders Bobby Berk and Stacy Garcia to its destination showroom. Karastan Rugs invites attendees to start their day at the 23,000-square-foot showroom with a coffee bar and wind down at the end of the busy market with a full-service bar. “Every year we try to create a new, immersive experience for High Point Market attendees,” said Michael Riley, senior vice president of sales and product, Ka

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 23, 2022

Manchester, N.H.—After 38 years, CCA Global Partners founder and co-CEO, Howard Brodsky , is retiring, effective Oct. 1, 2022. He will remain the chairman of the CCA board and very involved in the company. The board and the governance committee said they have well planned this retirement and transition to be seamless with Rick Bennet, who is and has been co-CEO for the last 14 years, taking the helm to lead CCA Global into the future.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 22, 2022

Daniel Aström, product designer with Välinge Innovation, showcases the company’s wall panel click installation system at Surfaces 2022. By Reginald Tucker—Just when you thought Va?linge was out of surprises, the company is looking to raise the bar with its latest suite of floor covering solutions. Several of these innovations, which were front and center here at its Surfaces booth, run the gamut from high-performance, waterproof flooring; new locking mechanisms that repel moisture; patented inst

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 22, 2022

Daniel Aström, product designer with Välinge Innovation, showcases the company’s wall panel click installation system at Surfaces 2022. By Reginald Tucker—Just when you thought Va?linge was out of surprises, the company is looking to raise the bar with its latest suite of floor covering solutions. Several of these innovations, which were front and center here at its Surfaces booth, run the gamut from high-performance, waterproof flooring; new locking mechanisms that repel moisture; patented inst

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2022

Calhoun, Ga.—Mohawk will host its highly anticipated Edge Summit in Nashville at the Gaylord Opryland from December 12-15, 2022. “With a unique and creative spirit in the air, Nashville is the perfect backdrop for Edge Summit,” said Kelli Widdifield, Mohawk’s senior vice president of marketing. “We are excited to inspire the industry’s premier retailers to take their businesses to the next level in the ever-changing, post-COVID-19 environment.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2022

Y ears from now when we look back on the implications of COVID-19, we will realize one of the biggest will be how people’s attitudes toward work has changed. There is a labor shortage today, and I doubt this will abate anytime soon—or ever—at least for some professions. There’s a reason why you are struggling to find warehouse workers, truck drivers, janitors, etc.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2022

In the last decade, Galleher has grown an astounding 253%— from $95 million to $335 million—by far the highest jump of any Top 20 Distributor on FCNews ’ annual list. The company’s growth comes amid an executive transition at the top, with long-time executive Jeff Hamar passing the proverbial baton to new CEO, Ted Kozikowski, who brings an extensive background in the building products industry as well as experience in global supply chain organization and distribution.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2022

By Reginald Tucker—Specialty retailers, contractors and other small businesses involved in the floor covering industry who received EIDL funding during the height of the pandemic will now be able to defer payments for a total of 30 months from inception on all approved COVID-19 EIDL loans. The extended deferment period will provide additional flexibility to small business owners impacted by the pandemic, especially those in hard-hit sectors managing disruption with recent variants, as well as re

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 23, 2022

Solon, Ohio—Tarkett released its 2021 Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility (CSR) report, also known as extra-financial performance declaration. Fully audited by an independent third party, KPMG, the report outlines the company’s significant sustainability performance and strong ambition, including new climate targets, according to the company.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 24, 2022

Warwickshire, England—Following the acquisition of Carpet Accessory Trims (C.A.T.) by the COBA Group, a privately funded group of manufacturing and distribution businesses, Ed Wells now brings his industry experience to a wider group of customers. In December 2021, Wells joined the COBA Flooring account management team to provide a newly expanded range of flooring products and accessories to businesses in his area.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 23, 2022

By Ken Ryan—H omeowners are increasingly concerned with a healthier home, from the quality of the air to the sustainability of the building materials within the home. In fact, research conducted by Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing found that more than 33% of renters and 25% of homeowners were concerned about healthy home conditions or risks, a percentage that was expected to rise.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 23, 2022

By Jim Augustus Armstrong—The ability to publish digital ads and get them seen by thousands of people is amazing. With the click of a button you can push your advertising message out through multiple platforms, quickly and easily. But so can everyone else. You can’t go online without being bombarded with an endless stream of ads. For this and other reasons, being visible online—by itself—is not an advantage because almost everyone is visible online; it’s the bare minimum.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2022

By Grant Petruzzelli—Just as Americans were beginning to take off their masks and get back to work, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has started to rattle an already fragile recovery effort. Over the past several weeks, the world rallied around sanctions and trade restrictions against Russia. These economic restrictions are unprecedented, especially when weighing both the size of Russia’s economy and its interwoven ties to other countries.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2022

Bel Air, Md.—John Robert (JR) Foster will be taking on a business development role in the Carolinas alongside Shawn Campbell at Spartan Surfaces , effective March 7, 2022. The company said Foster will take on many clients of Jake Clary, director of business development for the Southeast, as he continues to move into his leadership role. With 15 years of experience in the architect and design community, Foster has seen the flooring industry both as a project manager and as a commercial rep.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 22, 2022

By Lisbeth Calandrino—It’s hard to imagine that anything positive has come out of the pandemic. Remember when you were frightened to go out of the house or to the grocery store? Or washing all your produce and everything else that you brought into the house? People were also suspicious of friends and co-workers. Should they be allowed in your house?

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 23, 2022

Harrisburg, Pa.—On March 11, 2022, Skip Mason was named president of SAR Floors, an LVT supplier known for high-performing floors with stylistic designs. Since his start with the company, Mason has shown great determination and the ability to make strategic changes that have positively impacted the business, according to the company. Native to Levittown, Pa., and later moving to Central Pennsylvania after getting married in 1991, Mason started out his sales career in the electrical wholesale ind

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 23, 2022

Brian Green and Paul Castagliuolo at the recent Belknap White – Haines summit. . Mansfield, Mass.—The Mancini Family, through the Belknap White Group, has become the sole shareholder of JJ Haines LLC. In February 2019, Belknap purchased a controlling interest in Haines. This past February, the minority shareholder group exercised their option to sell their remaining shares to Belknap.

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