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Avente Tile Talk: Porcelain Tiles from Spain and the World Cup

Tile Talk

Porcelain Tiles from Spain and the World Cup. of Spanish TECHLAM® porcelain panels cover the Arena Corinthians stadium in Brazil. The tiles are TECHLAM ® NEU porcelain panels developed and. Further, Tile of Spain mentions that this "cutting-edge porcelain material is highly resistant to. Tuesday, June 17, 2014.

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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. PS: If you ever get a chance to be in Cologne, Germany you will never regret stopping and visiting The Dom. Labels: Cologne Cathedral , Cologne Germany , Kolner Dom , mosaic tile , The Dom.

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FCNews 2nd annual FCNnovation Awards winners

Floor Covering News

The new core material for flooring has all the advantages of standard rigid products: waterproof; easy click installation; and dimensional stability. Inhaus is looking to shake up the laminate flooring market with Lamdura, an ultra-premium product made in Germany. If that wasn’t enough, Lamdura also features Inhaus’ patented Megaloc 2.0

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The Great Reveal: New flooring intros for 2021

Floor Covering News

Daltile’s expansive offerings run the gamut from ceramic, porcelain, glass, natural stone tiles and mosaics to extra-large slabs, roofing tiles and countertops. A prime example is Enlite, Daltile’s new Enlite porcelain tile collection. Sono Eclipse is a fully waterproof, PVC-free rigid core flooring made in Germany.

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Why slip resistance continues to be a “moving target.”

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

Slip resistant standards-of-care and codes have been a moving target. Polished stone and polished porcelain tiles would give SCOF readings of over 0.90 The standard of care was expected to be a minimum of 0.60 standard. There are additional standards for keeping a public floor safe, particularly under wet conditions.

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I Showered at Hansgrohe | Aquademie ShowerWorld

Time2Design

During my training I learned a great deal about the company, its history, their innovations and how it all began in the small village of Schiltack in the Black Forest, Germany. (a Today, the shower bar is standard all over the workd in 1953 it was a bathroom sensation. Hans Grohe invented it at 82 years of age.