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Rigid core reigns with a focus on innovation

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Las Vegas—While it has its challenges—low-end products creeping into retailer showrooms and U.S. So, there’s a lot of pride behind the new products we’re putting out.” Pelican Creations Home, for example, has always been focused on better quality products. It might be dirt cheap, but you’ll be paying the price later.

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Industry Disrupters 2022: Shattering the status quo

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FCNews’ fourth annual Industry Disrupters issue features innovative players and thinkers who are changing the game in terms of product enhancements, technological breakthroughs or simply radical new ways of doing business. AHF Products. Cali Floors. Disrupting through distribution. From takeover target to blazing the acquisition trail.

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Wellmade expands capabilities

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“The plant was originally built to house enough equipment to be able to produce about 300 million square feet per year—so it’s a very, very big facility,” said Dick Quinlan, senior VP sales and marketing, Wellmade. In fact, according to Wellmade, the increased production would put the company on an elevated level.

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Trade war forces suppliers to re-strategize

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And while certain segments of the industry enjoyed a temporary tariff reprieve on select rigid core products, those exemptions have since expired. Our carpet manufacturing model is to have a large operation that allows for efficient product flow and minimize work in process inventory in the facility,” said Bob Shaw, chairman and CEO.

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FCNews’ Annual Top 20 Flooring Distributors

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The speed with which the COVID-19 pandemic swept through the flooring industry during the early spring wreaked havoc on distributors nationwide as they suddenly faced product shortages resulting from disruptions at manufacturing facilities and shutdowns at the retail level. By Ken Ryan. It was a complicated transition.”

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Stats 2021: Price hikes, organic growth drive wood’s increases

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After experiencing declines in both sales and square footage in 2019 and 2020, the U.S. FCNews research shows wood flooring sales at the first point of sale in 2021 totaled a record $2.67 Hardwood’s performance in 2021 helped the category increase its share of total floor covering sales, albeit slightly, to 10%.

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STATS: Wood finds silver lining amid challenges

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hardwood flooring market generated approximately $2.207 billion in sales, a 4% decrease from 2019 and a shade below the five-year low of $2.23 While hardwood still represents the third-largest hard surface category behind resilient and ceramic with respect to sales, the gap continues to widen. FCNews research shows the U.S.