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Ceramics of Italy unveils Cersaie 2024 trend report

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Bologna, Italy—Ceramics of Italy unveiled its trend report from Cersaie 2024, a major tile trade show held here. Following is the full trend report: Color stories In the words of designer Ferruccio Laviani, “Color is itself a material thing, a pigment which penetrates the slab to become part of it, in tones and in touch.”

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Crossville launches Portugal porcelain tile

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has launched its new Portugal porcelain tile collection. Additionally, Crossville’s Portugal collection is available in the triangular mosaic that is sheet-mounted and ready for installation on floors and walls. Standard bullnose or cove base made from the same material as the field tile to ensure coordination are also included.

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Stats 2021: Commercial flooring market sees uptick

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Preliminary FCNews research shows the commercial flooring market totaled $6.488 billion in sales in 2021, an uptick of 6% over 2020. Some major commercial flooring sectors, such as education, retail and healthcare, recovered faster than others, according to published reports. Resilient represents approximately 57.5%

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Crossville launches Owen Stone collection

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Crossville, Tennessee – Crossville has launched Owen Stone porcelain tile collection, the company’s latest line embracing the natural elements and expanding the brand’s offerings that answer the biophilia trend. The post Crossville launches Owen Stone collection appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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TCNA unveils material ingredient guide

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Through development of the Material Ingredient Guide, the tile industry is committed to thoroughness, consistency and transparency in reporting information about the materials from which our products are made.”. The following participating manufacturers contributed to the reporting: Ardex. American Wonder Porcelain. Arto Brick.

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What retailers had to say about TISE 2023

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Shaw’s Scott Sandlin with Flooring 101 owner, Jimmy Poulos, at TISE 2023. Las Vegas—Against a backdrop of somewhat troubling, if not sobering, economic reports, the industry came in full force to the Mandalay Convention Center for The International Surface Event (TISE 2023) with no sentiment of impending doom.

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Static COF and the new DCOF AcuTest

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COF or Coefficient Of Friction is related to the traction and slipperiness of a ceramic or porcelain tile. COF is a standardized method to measure the frictional resistance of a walking surface, in this case, tile. According to this standard, tiles with a wet DCOF AcuTest value of less than 0.42 Why did this change get made?