Floor Covering News

JUNE 30, 2023

hardwood flooring category took a big step back in 2022. Floor Covering News research shows hardwood flooring revenues fell 9.8% Industry observers attribute the disparity in sales to volume activity primarily to higher material and production costs in the face of slower sales. of all hard surface flooring products.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 19, 2023

CFL Flooring is making significant strides in increasing its production capacity worldwide by expanding its facilities in the United States and enhancing manufacturing capabilities in Vietnam. CFL’s factory expansion is well under way, aiming to better cater to the growing demand for their innovative flooring solutions.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 3, 2021

There are a number of companies currently building facilities in the Southeast to manufacture rigid core flooring, but few are of the size and scope of Huali Floors—a family-owned business that was started by Huashou Yuan in Taizhou, China, back in 2002. manufactured Huali products rolling off the line in the second quarter of 2021.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 10, 2023

This was a major development for the flooring industry as an estimated 10% of the world’s PVC originates from the Xinjiang region—and all of Xinjiang’s PVC facilities have documented ties to the region’s labor transfer programs, according to CBP. The vendors themselves implore us to show those highlighted products that are still available.”

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Las Vegas—While it has its challenges—low-end products creeping into retailer showrooms and U.S. Customs detentions significantly impacting supply chains, to name a few—the resilient flooring category continues to offer consumers the styles and durability they need, causing demand to continue to exceed expectations. People are excited.

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Cement Style

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The Khmer Rouge may have destroyed much of the population and vitality of Cambodia in the 1970’s but the lovely cement tile floors in the old districts lived through it all. The cafes and shops along the streets in the Siem Reap Old Market district reveal an assortment of colorful cement tile floors in age old patterns.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 18, 2024

In flooring, it can be as explosive as developing completely new product formulations that offer consumers features/benefits not previously available—we’re looking at you, WPC. This year’s Floor Covering News “Industry Disrupters” 2024 issue features all manner of players that are—or are poised to—shake things up.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 5, 2023

laminate flooring category generated in late 2020 and throughout 2021 continued to positively impact segment sales in 2022. Floor Covering News research shows the U.S. laminate flooring market generated approximately $1.382 billion in sales last year at the first point of sale—an uptick of 6% over the year prior.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 30, 2023

Over the past decade, the 48-year-old company got into the SPC game in a huge way, becoming the second-largest supplier of that product in the U.S. The company continues to grow through innovation, a diverse product assortment and holding true to its core tenet: “Making Dream Surfaces Attainable.” This will be difficult.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 20, 2020

More than 65% of LVP at Frazier’s Carpet One Floor & Home comes from outside China. The United States Trade Representative’s (USTR) decision to not include floor covering among items granted exemption from the Section 301 tariff was greeted with a collective shrug by flooring retailers. 24, 2018 to Aug. As the Aug.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 5, 2023

Floor Covering News asked dealers what, if anything, they were doing about potential delays: “We are buying from enough vendors that if we need to pivot while one experiences an issue, we can. Susan Hadinger, Hadinger Flooring, Naples, Fla. “We We try to stay away from all Chinese products, but it is extremely difficult to do so.”

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Floor Covering News

JULY 5, 2022

The resurgent laminate flooring category continued on its upward trajectory in 2021 as sales reached $1.304 billion, FCNews research shows. The dollars grew a little higher than the footage based on that phenomenon,” said David Moore, senior product director, wood and laminate, Mohawk. “The

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Architectural Ceramics

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Many people have asked us about how the newly implemented Chinese tariffs will affect the tile and flooring industry. Retailers and product-based companies in many consumer categories are affected by the new tariffs and countervailing charges implemented on goods from China. Most have Chinese products in their catalogs.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 29, 2022

hardwood flooring market orchestrated a dramatic turnaround in 2021. FCNews research shows wood flooring sales at the first point of sale in 2021 totaled a record $2.67 The volume growth of the hardwood flooring market in 2021 was equally impressive. billion, a head-turning increase of 21% over 2020. last year. “We

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

According to their son, Raj Shah, president, it’s in the company’s DNA to continuously find ways to engineer methodologies in logistics, product innovation and merchandising and marketing strategies to make flooring and countertops more affordable and accessible to the consumer without sacrificing manufacturer or retailer profitability.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Create Flooring, known for its array of innovative SPC, waterproof laminate and hardwood flooring products , has announced the opening of its sister logistics company, Downwind Logistics. Downwind also works with shipping companies and suppliers in Vietnam and South Korea. We can help importers save money.”.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 3, 2021

It’s a situation that has impacted virtually every consumer product category, flooring included. In the wake of the current backlogs at the nation’s critical shipping ports, many floor covering retailers and distributors who still rely on imported flooring products are having a difficult time fulfilling customer orders.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 30, 2024

Las Vegas—Jufeng (Vietnam Jufeng New Materials Co., has signed two i4F license agreements for use of i4F technologies on its laminate flooring. These new agreements are playing a major role in the implementation of Jufeng’s strategy to launch its laminate flooring as a mass market offering.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In 1981, while still operating MSI out of their basement, the Shahs secured the contract to supply black granite for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The post The Natural Stone Institute announces 2023 award recipients appeared first on Floor Covering News. manufacturers, primarily in the monuments industry.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 18, 2024

Dalton—It has been 12 years since Piet Dossche turned the flooring industry upside down when he launched WPC in the United States and soon after its SPC iteration, all under the “waterproof” umbrella. International Flooring Co. But equally important, how the brand will be different than everything they saw on the show floor. “It

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) added polyvinyl chloride products (PVC) as a “sector of concern” to its Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) enforcement efforts last February, it marked for many suppliers the beginning of the end of sourcing products from that region of China. flooring brands.” flooring brands.”

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Floor Covering News

MAY 19, 2021

By Megan Salzano While 2020 was anything but ordinary, there was one thing the flooring industry could count on: the continued popularity of the resilient category. It will come as no surprise that resilient—led mostly by the rigid core/SPC sub-segments —once again registered gains while many other flooring categories in 2020 did not.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 22, 2024

Waregem, Belgium—Unilin Technologies, a global leader in innovative flooring technologies , has expanded its licensing partnership with the Zhejiang Tianzhen Technology (also known as “TZ”) group of companies. This collaboration marks a significant step forward in offering eco-friendly flooring solutions to our customers.”

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 4, 2024

The living legend has a way of shaping the flooring industry. We were using way too much energy, way too much water in dying the carpet—plus, there was the challenge of consistently making one dye run after another in the same color with a match across side to side, end to end,” he had told Floor Covering News. Backward integration.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 3, 2023

Many of the new Mirage hardwood flooring offerings for 2023 will be built on a new engineered platform. We’re hearing less about it today,” said Brian Carson, president and CEO of AHF Products. “We Ditto for Mohawk, which maintains a mixture of domestically made and sourced hardwood production. Pictured is Dreamville oak.

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Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2016

The Terra Cotta Studio , located next to Thu Bon river in Quang Nam Province, central Vietnam, has a particular architectural structure. Immediately surrounding the studio is a bamboo frame that is used for drying out terra cotta products. This project is a cube-shaped building. Information provided by Tropical Space Co.,Ltd;

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Floor Covering News

JULY 11, 2022

W hile some in the industry may remember Bella Flooring Group as a consortium of Chinese manufacturers tempered on inexpensive product and lackluster service, the newly rebranded and reinvigorated Bella has set its sights on supporting the needs of the retail community with innovative product lines, U.S. Dominie explained. “As

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Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2016

The Terra Cotta Studio , located next to Thu Bon river in Quang Nam Province, central Vietnam, has a particular architectural structure. Immediately surrounding the studio is a bamboo frame that is used for drying out terra cotta products. This project is a cube-shaped building. Information provided by Tropical Space Co.,Ltd;

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2022

FCNews’ fourth annual Industry Disrupters issue features innovative players and thinkers who are changing the game in terms of product enhancements, technological breakthroughs or simply radical new ways of doing business. Cali Floors. Cali Floors has proven to be a trusted partner for retailers in the face of hardship.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

20, 2021, flooring industry leaders are mulling what impact President-elect Joe Biden and his policies might have on business. Stimulus was vital in a rapid restart of our economy and can only help again,” said Craig Phillips, president, Carpet Country and Barrington Carpet & Flooring Design, Twinsburg, Ohio. By Ken Ryan.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In addition, CFL’s production facility in Calhoun, Ga., Taiwan, Vietnam and Southern Shanghai operations, CFL said it also started a large, new facility in Hunan, China. The post CFL prepares for next growth sprint appeared first on Floor Covering News. In addition to its U.S.,

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Floor Covering News

JULY 31, 2020

Hamont, Belgium—I4F, a group of companies providing patents and technologies to the flooring industry, said it will continue its rapid expansion across China as well as an intensified focus on Vietnam and southeast Asia. More specifically, the company is searching for licensing managers for China as well as Vietnam and south east Asia.

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Floor Covering News

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.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 14, 2023

Customs and Border Patrol ready to inspect a container suspected of carrying products that used forced labor practices. Some flooring observers expect the UFLPA detentions to last for at least 30-60 days, perhaps longer. Customs,” Jeff Striegel, president of top 20 distributor Elias Wilf, told Floor Covering News.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 27, 2023

Kitts, West Indies—After revolutionizing the industry 11 years ago with the introduction of game-changing COREtec, Piet Dossche is trying to catch lightning in a bottle one more time with the launch of International Flooring Co. As for us, product is what we love, what we do. But WPC is, in our opinion, that elevated product.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 7, 2020

Domestic production prevents delays often associated with importing finished goods or components from overseas, experts say. The slowdown was likely due to business uncertainty as many companies decided to wait and see how it all played out until they thought about bringing more production back to the U.S.”. By Reginald Tucker.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Adam Ward, senior product director, laminate and wood, Mohawk, previewed the new BelleLuxe collection from Karastan. Las Vegas—With so much of the focus in hardwood flooring today trained on hybrids and entry-level products, some suppliers are countering by placing a greater emphasis on the upper-mid to high end of the market.

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