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Stats 2023: Tile flooring price increases buoy dollar sales

Floor Covering News

Due to the large increases in freight rates and the Ukraine crisis, which affected raw material and natural gas costs, we saw large increases in the overall cost of ceramic tile,” Raj Shah, president of MSI, told Floor Covering News. Home trends spurred by the pandemic also continue to be a boon for the tile flooring category.

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Contract: State of the Industry 2022

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D espite all the challenges facing the commercial contract market today—the residual effects of the pandemic, sky-high inflation, ongoing supply chain challenges and the war in Ukraine—key end-use sectors for commercial flooring are showing signs of recovery, stimulating hope that market conditions will improve in the second half of 2022.