Floor Covering News

MAY 29, 2024

Every now and then it’s important to take a step back and look around the industry. And while a “rising star” might imply those new to the industry, it doesn’t stop there. We’ve taken note of companies—big and small, new and old—that have recently stepped up their game to the betterment of the industry.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

—The Tile Council of North America (TCNA) added a five-category “product use classification system” in ANSI A326.3 “ A merican National Standard Test Method for Measuring Dynamic Coefficient of Friction of Hard Surface Flooring Materials.” This revision to A326.3, Interior, Wet (IW). Interior, Wet Plus (IW+).

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 10, 2024

The company will present new, insightful research on the relationship between design inclusivity and sustainability and also feature several new collections created with Econyl nylon, including: The introduction of the Pacific Standard Time Collection, inspired by Bentley Mills’ 45-year brand legacy and history in California.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

—Coverings, the preeminent event for North America’s ceramic tile and natural stone industry, unveiled a sneak peek of featured education for Coverings 2023, taking place here April 18-21, 2023, at the Orange County Convention Center.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 16, 2023

Lux Flooring’s SPC products feature a 22-mil thickness and a virgin stone core for added durability. W hile some flooring companies aim to be many different things to many different retailers—providing a breadth of product categories from wood to resilient to ceramic—Lux Flooring’s focus is singular: SPC luxury vinyl flooring.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

It has been apparent and clear there are no limitations for women in this company nor in this industry,” said Alison Mullins, marketing consultant for Triton Stone Group’s Richmond, Va., Rea began his natural stone industry career at Coldspring in 1977, working in the company’s manufacturing facility.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

JANUARY 2, 2013

The tile industry has been through a lot the past five years. s Donato Pompo, citing findings from Catalina Research, ceramic tile is leading the floor covering sales recovery, as tile manufacturers leverage the rebound in existing home sales and housing starts. floor coverings manufacturer dollar sales and 12.9%

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Like many industries, tile has been through a lot the past five years. s Donato Pompo, citing findings from Catalina Research, the primary source for ceramic tile industry data, ceramic tile is leading the floor covering sales recovery, as tile manufacturers leverage the rebound in existing home sales and housing starts.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

F amily owned and operated since the founding of its parent company, Pelican Creations, nearly 25 years ago, Pelican Creations Home has made a name for itself in the ever-crowded flooring market by offering a variety of popular product categories and exceptional customer service to its retail partners.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 14, 2023

There have been concerns about higher inflation and rising interest rates within the lending industry over the past year,” King added. billion-plus commercial flooring market, with specified contract representing the lion’s share of sales, preliminary FCNews research shows. However, the American consumer continues to spend.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Coverings , the preeminent event for the ceramic tile and natural stone industry in North America, has released a lineup of featured conference sessions for Coverings 2022. Select sessions will include: Today’s Era of Ramped-Up Health and Environmental Action and Opportunities for Tile – Industry Leadership Collaboration Panel.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 3, 2023

These awards honor groundbreaking ideas and industry-changing concepts that have the potential to impact the way flooring is manufactured, promoted and sold. Premier Flooring Center. For retail sales associates, PFC is intended to be the easiest way to sell flooring—with confidence and simplicity. The Dixie Group.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 17, 2020

The Coverings Rock Star program recognizes emerging leaders in the tile and stone industry by awarding the best and brightest young talent. We look forward to seeing continued advancement and evolution for each of these young professionals as well as the impactful contributions they will continue to bring to the tile and stone industry.”.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 12, 2023

Shaw said it is the first flooring company to receive the Works with WELL product license, and as an early adopter has one of the first products in the world to receive the mark. ” The post Shaw receives ‘Works with WELL’ mark via EcoWorx appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Dalton—Lewis Davis, senior director of technology and research, World Floor Covering Association (WFCA), said the first two companies to define and complete the certification process of the Version 3.0 standards of the The Floor Covering Business to Business (fcB2B) program are The Dixie Group (TDG) and RFMS. Version 3.0

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

These awards honor groundbreaking ideas and industry-changing concepts that have the potential to impact the way flooring is manufactured, promoted and sold. As the click system ensures perfect alignment of the tiles, installation of a FlinTile floor does not require any specific tools or the use of spacers.

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Kate-Lo Tile & Stone

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

COF is a standardized method to measure the frictional resistance of a walking surface, in this case, tile. T he method used for measuring COF of ceramic tile floors changed in 2012, after years of research and with the approval of the accredited national consensus of ANSI or American National Standards Institute.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 20, 2020

We couldn’t be more excited to introduce products with this level of innovation when everyone in the flooring industry is most in need of high-performance products like Schönox HS Sturdy.”. Environmental and safety standards remain top-of-mind in Schönox’s research and development efforts.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 10, 2021

Quinn T here are many different flooring adhesives , each offering benefits to weigh and pricing to compare. Regardless of the brand, the performance of the material ultimately depends upon its ability to durably and successfully bond floor coverings in a manner that is acceptable to installers. Modern adhesives.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

AUGUST 13, 2013

Recognizing the need in the marketplace for a mortar that would deliver successful large-format tile installations, MAPEI has developed Kerabond T, a premium-grade, nonsag, nonslump mortar for use in thin-set and medium-bed tile installations on interior/exterior residential and commercial floors and walls. www.mapei.com. www.laticrete.com.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

MARCH 13, 2013

Soon the industry realized some unexpected tradeoffs with too much texture. Heavily textured tiles were also more difficult to clean to the extent that in some cases the new tile floor had to be torn out and replaced with a tile that had less texture. Recently terrazzo flooring has been used more due to the increased design options.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2014

This world-class R&D center – alongside its counterparts in Milwaukee in the United States, and Shanghai, China – strengthens our global research and development capacities,” declared Bostik Chairman and CEO Bernard Pinatel at the opening ceremony. Sustainable construction: built according to low energy consumption standards.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Quick Drain has added the ¾” spacer, making it the seventh different sized spacer the firm offers, all of which are used to easily raise the drain cover to the height of the floor. Unlike others, the Quick Drain channel drain system is designed to make it easy for the contractor to work with a number of floor materials and thicknesses. ”We

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 10, 2024

The North America Laminate Flooring Association (NALFA) has developed methodologies over the years to address laminate flooring, sustainability and underlayment—all of which work to establish distinct criteria for evaluating quality, sustainability and performance. Washington, D.C.—The

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 1, 2022

The Resilient Floor Covering Association (RFCI) continues to play a vital role in the advancement of the category, supporting its members through avenues such as advocacy and messaging, particularly in the area of sustainability. It also gets involves in setting standards to ensure product quality meets consumers’ expectations.

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Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

AUGUST 7, 2019

In fact, 65% of kitchens designed in the past year were transitional, more than double the kitchens that were traditional, contemporary or farmhouse, according to Tricia Zack, Market Research Analyst at the NKBA. Floor-to-ceiling subway tiles. Updraft hoods and standard-door dishwashers are other staples in this design.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 25, 2021

FCNews research shows commercial flooring revenues (including specified business as well as Main Street sales) totaled $6.134 billion last year—a falloff of 11.1% Much like the residential market, the commercial flooring sector experienced a surge—albeit a mild one—toward the end of 2020. compared to 2019. Corporate offices.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 18, 2021

in dollars, according to FCNews research. When all the numbers were crunched for 2020, FCNews research shows overall carpet sales fell 12.5% Total area rug sales fell an estimated 2% to $2.576 billion in 2020, according to industry estimates. of the overall 18.969 billion square-foot flooring market in 2020.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 11, 2021

“A lot of time and consumer research goes into each design. The event will allow us to teach attendees about our product designs, the benefits of resilient flooring and where to purchase—leading them to our specialty retail partners.”. But with Pergo Extreme, we have created innovative, worry-free flooring.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 30, 2024

Hardwood flooring’s loss of market share to competing hard surfaces over the past 10-15 years is well catalogued and documented. We will only move forward with what helps us as an industry. The hardwood flooring sector continues to face stiff competition from look-alike product segments.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 12, 2021

While flooring is still largely ruled by well-established legends and pioneers, there’s a new generation in town. Millennials are making a name for themselves in the flooring game, taking the lead on everything from marketing to retail ownership to product design. CEO/president, Nonn’s Kitchen Bath & Flooring. Jason O’Krent.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 22, 2020

Recent trends and changes in tile design including installation methods and requirements, quality assurance methods and standards. The Pulse of the Industry: ASID research on industry resilience. the intersection where the hospitality industry meets other kinds of workplaces. Designing with tile.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

As we conclude the first month of 2024, marked by extensive travel to various conventions and meetings within the flooring industry, it serves as a gentle reminder that our journey ahead is substantial. Engaging directly with stakeholders, our team acknowledges the pressing need for concerted efforts within the flooring industry.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 1, 2022

—Lewis Davis, senior director of technology and research, World Floor Covering Association, announced the formal plans for the fcB2B Annual Meeting, to be held here September 19-21 at the Embassy Suites Hotel located adjacent to the Nashville International Airport. the latest EDI Standards version with certification,” said Davis.

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Tile Excellence

AUGUST 28, 2014

We always encourage readers to do their research! This new substantially improved waterproofing system is changing the way the whole tile industry waterproofs showers. By doing that everyone that needs to tile a wall or shower floor can do so with confidence, practically eliminating all shower leaks completely.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Nashville— fcB2B held its annual meeting last month here, where it unveiled its first non-EDI standard product catalog. “Many vendors have struggled with understanding and implementing the traditional fcB2B standard; this will provide them a more cost-effective process.”

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Sure, not all standards should change. But as the industry becomes more innovative, some standards need to be broken to create new ones. This test has been used in the industry since the 1940s, but it’s time for a change. To start, the CaCl test takes 72 hours—48 hours longer than the standard RH test.

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