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Fall intros: Key selling season touts hot new products

Floor Covering News

By Megan Salzano—W ith the pandemic shaking up product launch strategies, the fall selling season has become a key product launch phase for many suppliers. While Surfaces remains the main stage for most manufacturers, new products are hitting the streets—and dealer showrooms—this fall that have never been seen before.

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Waterproof: Protecting specialty dealers’ profit margins

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However, scores of suppliers of competitive waterproof products such as resilient and even some high-performance laminates and hybrids are responding by highlighting select collections that provide retailers with trade-up opportunities and, by extension, higher profit margins. We decided we’re not going to the bottom anymore.

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Laminate suppliers leverage new capabilities

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We’ve seen a lot more demand for laminate flooring products.” All products within the line—each featuring new colors—are now water resistant, anti-microbial and embossed in register. All products within the line—each featuring new colors—are now water resistant, anti-microbial and embossed in register. Now it has evolved.

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Avente Tile Talk: Tile Mosaics at the Cologne Cathedral

Tile Talk

Recently I had the pleasure of traveling to Cologne, Germany as part of BlogTour Cologne and while I was there I visited The Cologne Cathedral. Now while there I also had the opportunity to view some amazing mosaic work that if you didnt look closely could assume was a painting or even a rug. green building products. at 6:00 AM.

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Waterproof flooring makes a splash in 2022

Floor Covering News

How it works: Unicoat is applied on the edges of the floorboard during production, resulting in a fully sealed surface when the panels are locked together. The new, watertight technology adds advantages to any type of flooring and is invaluable to extend performance and longevity of laminate, engineered wood and real hardwood products.

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Portugal: tile tradition and technology

Diary of a Tile Addict

One, was Joe’s fellow travellers: an eclectic and highly intelligent group of young journalists from all corners of Europe, from Sweden to Austria, Germany to Spain. Overall, the Portuguese ceramics industry, while small, offers a broad and differentiated product portfolio. There were many reasons for its success. This grew by 6.4%

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Portugal: tile tradition and technology

Diary of a Tile Addict

One, was Joe’s fellow travellers: an eclectic and highly intelligent group of young journalists from all corners of Europe, from Sweden to Austria, Germany to Spain. Overall, the Portuguese ceramics industry, while small, offers a broad and differentiated product portfolio. There were many reasons for its success. This grew by 6.4%