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Tarkett collaborates with Clean Hospitals

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Tarkett said it will share its longstanding expertise on flooring with Clean Hospitals’ working groups and will contribute to advance research on cleaning and infection control protocols on flooring within hospitals. The post Tarkett collaborates with Clean Hospitals appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Reshoring Initiative gains steam, more needs to be done

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T he crippling shipping delays and logjams that plagued the flooring industry in the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and into the early part of 2022 have finally begun to subside. This includes electronics, building materials, apparel, food products and, of course, flooring. In contrast to the U.S.,

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Exclusive: Boen and Somerset—A dynamic duo

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A few months ago Bauwerk Group, a Switzerland-based manufacturer of hardwood flooring that also owns the Boen brand, purchased the prefinished side of Somerset Hardwood Flooring , the company founded by Steve Merrick in 1990 as a supplier of unfinished goods. I’m looking on the floor. When I was flying to the U.S.,

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Letters from a traveling Architecture Student | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

I even sketched the floor plan of my room at the bottom. ( I also briefly told my parents of some trouble I ran into on the train – it was much worse than I let on in these postcards. i only stayed 1 semester, but traveled during the weekends and breaks, and afterward took the train along the coast for 3 weeks.

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The Bee Hole of an Architect | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Architects get our training starting in studios in college where a group of college aged kids spend way too much time together in very small quarters. ago, well some time ago when i was still a kid we had a terrace on the 2nd floor at out summer house and the exterior of the house was covered in about 5 cm wide planks.