Andreas Mueller, president/CEO of the North American division of rubber flooring manufacturer nora, has taken on a greater role in the company as managing director of nora systems GmbH. Mueller spoke with Floor Trendsabout his expanded ...
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DOMOTEX asia/CHINAFLOOR, the world’s second largest floor covering show 952% booked six weeks before the March 26-28, 2013 show in Shanghai and it is expected that 1,200 exhibitors will fill the 130,000 square meter show floor to ...
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At Armstrong, we are committed to protecting the environment and using natural resources responsibly. Recently the flooring industry took notice of our efforts. At the 4th Annual GreenStep Awards hosted by Floor Covering Weekly (FCW), we ...
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Tarkett, the worldwide leader in innovative flooring and sports surface solutions, announces the acquisition of Tandus Group, Inc., a US-based floorcovering designer and manufacturer who for more than 50 years has been creating ...
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Bamboo flooring is a new division of flooring industry, not hardwood flooring, not cork, but natural and green flooring. Bamboo flooring has been in the market over 20 years, but still many people don't hear it before his life because ...
The international floor covering trade is gearing up for the largest event in its calender – Domotex 2012 – with leading solid wood, engineered and laminate floor manufacturers among those exhibiting. The Hannover show on ...
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Working in the flooring industry, I would often hear people say that they want solid hardwood for their floors because they want real wood. When I would suggest engineered hardwood as another option, I would get the response, ...
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Bamboo has a long and interesting history dating back more than 5, 000 years. The ancient Chinese used this versatile grass for many projects, including arrow making, construction, weaving, books, and paper. Archeologists working in the ...
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It's been a tough go for the flooring industry, any industry, for that matter, since the housing market collapsed in the summer of 2006. For an industry still getting its feet wet, the recession could have spelled doom, which is what makes ...
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By the middle of the second quarter in 2010, wood flooring manufacturers began to think the talk about the recession having officially ended a year prior was finally coming true in their neck of the forest. Then, at the end of April, the ...
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There are pretty much two ways to look at the laminate flooring category in 2010. The optimists will focus on the fact that for the second consecutive year, and in a very tough economic climate, laminate manufacturers moved more square feet ...
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Though the resilient category isn't in the clear just yet, conditions are improving_ as much as the flooring industry can improve in this economy. In this case, improving means 2010 may be the end to a consistent drop in category sales ...
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At the end of 2009, following back-to-back years of devastating, unparalleled loses, most industry executives said the upcoming year couldn't get any worse. Well, on one hand they were essentially correct. But, just because things didn't ...
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By Congoleum's Roger Marcus, president and CEO, and Dennis Jarosz, senior vice president of sales and marketing If we travel back 25 years in history, we find that what we now call resilient flooring was primarily called vinyl or, in the ...
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In the log sheet, from 2011, has been subject to freight, labor, raw material price increases, soaring timber prices can be described. Aftermath of the financial tsunami and hurricane shocks after shuffling, plywood and March 2010 came the ...
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