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SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Colombus, Ohio— Starnet , a network of full-service independent flooring contractors, has announced that DeBenedetto’s Commercial Flooring, a Lynx Company, of Portland, Oregon, has joined the partnership as a new member. The post Starnet grows membership with DeBenedetto’s Flooring appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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JUNE 5, 2023

Solon, Ohio—Tarkett has expanded the portfolio for its Color Pop luxury vinyl tile and plank series. At the end of their life, Color Pop floors can be recycled through Tarkett’s ReStart program. The post Tarkett expands Color Pop collection appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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APRIL 23, 2018

Originally published by Fishman Flooring Solutions. ARDEX Receives 2017 Vendor Partner Award from Fishman Flooring Solutions. ARDEX Americas is a flooring industry pacesetter in developing and manufacturing high-performance products used for concrete repair and resurfacing, substrate preparation and flooring installation.

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MAY 1, 2024

Columbus, Ohio—AFS Group (America’s Floor Source), a top-five independent flooring retailer, has acquired the assets and intellectual property of Lewis Floor & Home (Lewis). Lewis added: “I am enormously proud of the trust that Lewis Floor & Home has earned with customers on the north shore.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

Solon, Ohio—Tarkett, a worldwide leader in sustainable flooring, has introduced Color Splash Speckled rubber tile. According to the company, the new collection offers 50 on-trend standard colors inspired by the outdoors in standard 24 x 24 square tiles, including tonal visuals that work alongside multi-colored chipped colorations.

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AUGUST 15, 2022

Solon, Ohio—Tarkett North America has refreshed and expanded its iQ Granit collection and introduced coordinating iQ Eminent collection within its high-performance homogeneous vinyl sheet and tile products. These aren’t just floors—they’re the essential foundation to creating spaces for holistic wellness.”.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Solon, Ohio—Tarkett North America has refreshed and expanded its Acczent collection. The updated collection, which includes Acczent and Acczent Flourish heterogeneous sheet products, includes 12 new wood visuals and two new stone visuals, as well as an array of Ready-to-Ship products.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Johnsonite Pentagonal rubber tiles Solon, Ohio—Johnsonite, which joined the Tarkett family of brands in 2005, has a new product-specific Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for its rubber tile, which details health and environmental impacts of each ingredient, as well as embodied carbon from cradle to gate.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Oberlin, Ohio—The Natural Stone Institute (NSI) has awarded Greg Osterhout (Northern Stone Supply) the 2023 David Fell Spirit of Service award, and Sam Arcot the 2023 Natural Stone Institute Person of the Year award. The post Greg Osterhout, Sam Arcot receive NSI awards appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

Solon, Ohio—Tarkett, a global leader in innovative and sustainable flooring solutions, is refreshing its high-performing, premium Contour LVT offerings with two new design collections: Collaborative and Mindful Maker. The post Tarkett expands Contour LVT line appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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MARCH 14, 2023

Solon, Ohio—Tarkett, a global leader in sustainable and innovative flooring solutions, has updated its signature iD Latitude LVT line to feature a total of 72 designs. The full iD Latitude collection is part of the Tarkett Solution SPECtrum, one of the industry’s most comprehensive flooring portfolios centered around human performance.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Oberlin, Ohio—The Natural Stone Institute presented its 2021 Person of the Year award to Michael Picco of Picco Group, and named John Cierech of Tennessee Marble Company its 2021 Natural Stone Craftsman of the Year. The post NSI names Person, Craftsman of the Year appeared first on Floor Covering News. Craftsman of the Year.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Columbus, Ohio— Starnet Commercial Flooring has added AFS Contract as its newest member. We are enthusiastic about becoming a part of Starnet and engaging in collaborative efforts with their flooring contractor members and strategic partners,” said Butch Huffman, vice president of AFS Contract. “Our

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DECEMBER 29, 2021

That statement accurately reflects 2021 for many flooring dealers, who—despite facing numerous challenges— are closing out 2021 with one of their best sales years ever, with many shattering records. FCNews asked several flooring retailers to share their proven practices for profits. Carlton Billingsley, Floors and More.

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JUNE 5, 2023

A credit card scam is sweeping through the flooring retail community , in some instances successfully stealing thousands of dollars from unsuspecting dealers in lost revenue and materials. Luckily, our operations people intervened because they recognized some of our standards were not met. This way we caught it before we got burned.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Cleveland, Ohio— Healthcare Design magazine in partnership with the Center for Health Design and The Healthcare Design Expo + Conference revealed the winners of The Nightingale Awards 2021. The Gold Award and an Innovation Award in Architectural Products: Non-Clinical. The Gold Award in Flooring: Hard Surface.

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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. When Robertson was first approached about joining the flooring world in the early 1970s, she was reluctant to get on board. Rushmore of women in flooring.

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JULY 20, 2023

A credit card scam is sweeping through the flooring retail community, in some instances successfully stealing thousands of dollars from unsuspecting dealers in lost revenue and materials. This scam is rampant across the industry right now—it’s a huge issue,” said Kelby Frederick, owner of My Flooring America, based in Denton, Texas.

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DECEMBER 27, 2019

As the resilient category continues to expand into various subsegments, flooring dealers have had to stay abreast of where each product—once installed—will truly thrive. LVT, WPC and SPC—arguably the three most popular resilient products today—all have different nuances that make one better than the other for different projects.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

This type of third-party certification gives validity to the innovative work Tarkett has done to create healthy, sustainable products.”. Powerbond RS is a hybrid resilient flooring, meaning it combines the look and feel of carpet with the durability and cleanability of a resilient surface.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Through this partnership, Shaw Sports Turf will showcase its products throughout the event spaces leading up to the 2024 national championship game, slated for Monday, January 8 at NRG Stadium here. This sponsorship also designates Shaw as the official flooring provider of the College Football Playoff.

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APRIL 6, 2020

Having existing inventory is key for flooring interests during this time of plant and production shutdowns. Down but certainly not out, the flooring industry is taking proactive steps to deal with an unprecedented disruption caused by COVID-19, the novel coronavirus that has changed life as we know it. In Benton, Ark.,

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APRIL 24, 2023

Solon, Ohio—Tarkett has partnered with Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute (C2CPII) to bring the “Cradle to Cradle Certified: Powering the Shift to Healthy, Climate Positive and Equitable Products” CEU presentation to the A&D community on Wednesday, April 26 at 12 p.m. EDT and is free to attend. “We

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Solon, Ohio—Tarkett recently expanded its sustainability team, evidence of its ongoing commitment to environmentally responsible products and operations. The additions to the sustainability team include Rachel Palopoli, director of circular economy, and Rachel Berkin, sustainability product manager.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Solon, Ohio—Tarkett North America said it will be implementing a new carbon strategy that will ultimately make real changes in how the company makes its floors, reducing impact rather than offsetting it. 99% of Tarkett’s flooring solutions have low VOC emission levels, which are 10 times lower than the most stringent world standards.

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MARCH 23, 2022

Solon, Ohio—Tarkett released its 2021 Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility (CSR) report, also known as extra-financial performance declaration. Tarkett said it has made strong progress with ReStart, its take-back and recycling program, by transforming end-of-use flooring and recycled materials into new floors.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

Fostoria, Ohio—Roppe Corporation has introduced Roppe Rubber Stair Treads with DuPont Kevlar fibers, a long-lasting, high-performing tread backed by an industry-leading 25-year warranty. For facilities, this product represents a major advancement in operational efficiency and performance.”.

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MAY 18, 2022

Solon, Ohio—Tarkett recently held the grand opening of its newest showroom, located in Chicago’s Fulton Market District. We think it’s the perfect central location to serve our customers and our employees with beautiful displays of Tarkett’s unique product solutions.”. The aesthetic is truly a celebration of the floor,” Benitez said.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

Solon, Ohio —Tarkett, a worldwide leader in innovative and sustainable flooring and sports surface solutions, entered into a distribution partnership with Tingle Flooring. Effective immediately, Tingle will represent the company’s resilient product portfolio in the Kansas City, St.

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AUGUST 8, 2022

However, flooring professionals representing manufacturing, distribution and retailers say transportation issues—both ocean and over-the-road trucking—remain a challenge. Although product flow has significantly improved, we are definitely not out of the woods yet,” Raj Shah, president of MSI, told FCNews. Santa Fe Springs, Calif.-based

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JULY 18, 2022

With the 2022 Mohawk Edge Summit just six months away, members of the vaunted Mohawk Edge Advisory Council are gearing up for what promises to be an exciting event focused on education, shared best practices, networking opportunities and, of course, new product and program rollouts.

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APRIL 20, 2021

Buffaloe Floors & Up utilizes shuttle buses in its mobile showroom fleet. Moreover, the shop-at-home format has helped flooring stores maintain their business during the pandemic, allowing consumers a safer, more comfortable environment for shopping. That means each visit needs to be productive.

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APRIL 17, 2023

The fundamental element that made it compelling was an over-the-top depiction of how much our SmartStrand product can take and still perform.” There is a new audience today vs. 2016 that’s purchasing products for their homes,” Widdifield noted. “We This includes causal elements and sustainability, not just product itself.

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MAY 16, 2022

Cancun, Mexico—QFloors, maker of a host of flooring-specific software solutions and programs for specialty retailers, welcomed scores of its customers here earlier this month to its QFloors Users Conference. QPro Pay addresses several issues floor covering dealers encounter regularly.

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JULY 8, 2021

Solon, Ohio—Tarkett has entered a distribution partnership with FlorStar Sales, Inc. Effective immediately, FlorStar will represent the company’s resilient product portfolio in the Illinois, Michigan, northern Indiana, Wisconsin, northwest Ohio, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota markets.

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JANUARY 5, 2022

Solon, Ohio—Tarkett, a worldwide leader in innovative and sustainable flooring and sports surface solutions, has entered into a distribution partnership with Adleta Corporation. Collaborating with one of the leading hard-surface flooring distributors in the South-Central U.S.

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JANUARY 10, 2022

Solon, Ohio—Tarkett entered a distribution partnership with Cain & Bultman. Effective immediately, Cain & Bultman will represent the company’s resilient product portfolio in key markets it serves. ” The post Tarkett partners with Cain & Bultman appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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