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Laminate: Giving rigid core flooring a run for its money

Floor Covering News

When it comes to durability, scratch/dent resistance, ease of installation/maintenance and affordability, laminate flooring checks all the boxes. Other executives agree, citing innovations that are putting laminate flooring—whose coreboards still mainly comprise wood-based fibers—on a more equitable footing with rigid core flooring products.

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Avente Tile Talk: Mosaic Floors of Fishborne Roman Palace

Tile Talk

Mosaic Floors of Fishborne Roman Palace. There are many fine examples to be found throughout Europe. Photography by Joanne Bradley When building defects caused floor subsidence, or if the style of the time changed and the floor of an important room was no longer fashionable, a new floor was laid over the old.

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Back to Basics: AC’s Ceramic Tile Collections

Architectural Ceramics

Today, several tile manufacturers still honor the handmade tradition in shaping and painting natural clay tiles, but drying is done in a closed kiln instead of in the open air. The strength and density of porcelain results in a higher PSI level, making it suitable for floor applications and commercial spaces. Our London Collection.

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Waterproof: Protecting specialty dealers’ profit margins

Floor Covering News

T he intense level of competition in the waterproof flooring segment —particularly the LVP/SPC/rigid core category—has resulted in aggressive pricing strategies to build market share. For 2024, Bella Flooring Group also plans to launch a new waterproof PVC floor featuring EIR technology and a 20-mil wear layer.

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The Great Reveal 2024

Floor Covering News

It’s what flooring retailers rely on every year to chart their course for the next 12 months—the catalyst being solution-oriented products that resonate with end users while boosting retailers’ bottom lines. As such, Floor Covering News once again delivers The Great Reveal in our first issue of January. T he winter markets.

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TISE director bullish on 2023 show

Floor Covering News

For starters, every major flooring brand will be exhibiting this year, and pre-registration has already surpassed 2022 numbers a month before the event. Normally we have 23%, so international is back very strong; it’s very strong from Canada, South America and Europe and, to our surprise, Asia. Asia reps] are using U.S.

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April Showers Bring May Flowers

Architectural Ceramics

From the ground up, we’ll see what goes under and over shower floors and walls. This style is newer and more common in Europe than in the U.S. Had enough talk about what goes behind the floor and walls of a shower? The horizontal floors and countertops both use warm beige tones in natural materials with subtle veining.