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The Great Reveal: New flooring intros for 2021

Floor Covering News

By Reginald Tucker Floor Covering News , with the launch of The Great Reveal, is providing manufacturers with creative ways to get their new flooring products in front of specialty retailers around the country so they may be better prepared to present consumers with new products, colors and designs to help them complete their renovation projects.

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Stonepeak Ceramics expands U.S. investments

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manufacturer of high-tech porcelain stoneware solutions, has made a series of strategic investments in its U.S. These upgrades will further improve the quality, innovation and design of the company’s products, including enhancement of through-veining porcelain solutions, expansion of color ranges and enhancement of polished finishes.

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Joaquin Piquet: ceramic visionary

Diary of a Tile Addict

Ecoker (2008), formulation of a porcelain paste with firing for 27 minutes at normal working temperature. NeosAware (2017), first artificial intelligence software for the formulation of ceramic compositions. Klusss (2020) ceramic flooring with the same capacity to absorb sound as carpets.

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FCNews 2nd annual FCNnovation Awards winners

Floor Covering News

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. Rigid Core.

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Tile Industry 2013: Primed for Recovery, Part 2

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

based Dancik International, a 27-year-old, 44-employee software firm specializing in ceramic tile, flooring and natural stone products, is also predicting growth. For years, software companies like Dancik’s have had distributors tell them, “You don’t know how technologically behind my customers are.” A technology crossroads.

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Blogging Basics – Blogs can boost your business’ profile

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

Everything Tile and Stone is set to help inform everyone on the Internet searching for topics about ceramic, porcelain, glass and metal tile, stone and flooring,” she says. “We “The goal of our website blog is to inform customers about our products, unique customer service and store locations.

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Tile Industry 2013: Primed for Recovery

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

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. floor coverings manufacturer dollar sales and 12.9 In the third quarter of 2012, U.S.

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