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The Natural Stone Institute announces 2023 award recipients

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Oberlin, Ohio—The Natural Stone Institute (NSI) has named the winners of its three award programs for 2023. The Shahs soon realized that natural stone for residential and commercial usage had even higher market potential and redirected their efforts toward developing this sector of the industry. To learn more, visit here.

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Coverings 2014 – Top Tile Products

JG Kitchens

Last week, I blogged about the top tile trends I spotted at this major US trade show for tile and stone. This week, I’m going to share some of my favorite products. San Lorenzo from Mexico was one of those brands offering great looks without oceanic freight. You can see more of them in last week’s post.).

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Top 10 Residential Tile Trends for 2020

JG Kitchens

I’ve enjoyed seeing those in Italy, Greece, Germany, California’s Central Coast and Mexico on trips. It looks like exotic stone, but is more affordable and easier to live with. Here were the top wellness design trends in winning products at this year’s Kitchen & Bath Industry Show.

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Novalam adds i4F technologies to enter global SPC market

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Nules, Spain—i4F announced that Novalam Innovacion SA has signed an i4F drop-lock technologies license agreement for its entry into the global stone polymer core (SPC) flooring market. As a result, Novalam becomes Spain’s first manufacturer of SPC products, all of which will be enhanced with i4F drop-lock installation technologies.

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Happy Floors adds to Easy Luxury SPC line

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Happy Floors introduced Santa Fe, a new stone-look collection, to its Easy Luxury SPC product line. With Santa Fe, we wanted to add a rich stone-look option to our Easy Luxury line,” said Tressa Samdal , director of easy luxury marketing and product management. Miami, Fla.— is famous for.

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Chinese Tariffs and their Effect on the Tile Industry

Architectural Ceramics

Retailers and product-based companies in many consumer categories are affected by the new tariffs and countervailing charges implemented on goods from China. government now charges countervailing duties to protect our domestic factories (therein the dilemma for many products affected). Most have Chinese products in their catalogs.

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Executive forecast 2024: No signs of stopping resilient flooring

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Many supply chain risks remain for products imported from abroad. Challenges include higher inventory costs due to rising interest rates and product stoppages as U.S. products support jobs for American workers and help to fuel the U.S. Also continuing to bring more advanced realism in the category with better-looking products.