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Rigid core reigns with a focus on innovation

Floor Covering News

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

Floor Covering News

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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Industry disrupters 2024: Internal factors, external forces upend status quo

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In flooring, it can be as explosive as developing completely new product formulations that offer consumers features/benefits not previously available—we’re looking at you, WPC. Ukraine is a major exporter of agricultural commodities such as wheat and corn, and the conflict has disrupted production and export capabilities.