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Reshoring Initiative gains steam, more needs to be done

Floor Covering News

We call on the administration and Congress to enact policy changes to make the United States competitive again.” These manufacturing-job-killing policies include: prioritizing degrees over skills training; allowing the U.S. With 5 million manufacturing jobs still offshore—as measured by our $1.2 In his testimony before the U.S.-China

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Exclusive: Boen and Somerset—A dynamic duo

Floor Covering News

A few months ago Bauwerk Group, a Switzerland-based manufacturer of hardwood flooring that also owns the Boen brand, purchased the prefinished side of Somerset Hardwood Flooring , the company founded by Steve Merrick in 1990 as a supplier of unfinished goods. The prototypes we saw when I was in Switzerland last week were beautiful.

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The Bauhaus and Me

Life of an Architect

One of the main differences between then and now is that I’ll be sleeping in a hotel rather than on a train, but the other difference, and probably the more important one, is that I have been preparing for this trip by reading a bunch of books and doing a lot of preparatory research.

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