The US flooring group Mohawk intends to deliver significant growth in the years ahead. The company has announced three major takeovers since October 2012: Pergo laminate flooring activities from Pfleiderer, the Italian tile producer Marazzi ...
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Most flooring comes with some specific maintenance do's and don'ts. (Don't use ammonia-based cleaners on wood, for example.) But how do you remove chewing gum, wax, and other messes? Here are some tips from the experts at Consumer Reports. ...
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The fair organiser Deutsche Messe assumes that visitor numbers reached roughly 40,000 at the floor-coverings trade fair Domotex which was held from 12 to 15 January in Hannover. More than 60% of those visitors came from abroad, with roughly ...
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Unilin’s Flooring division, which is owned by the US flooring group Mohawk Industries, intends to close two mills in Trelleborg and Perstorp, Sweden that are part of Pergo Europe. Treaters in Perstorp and a laminate flooring mill in ...
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The Austrian company Egger increased its consolidated revenues by 14%to€1.114bn in the first half of 2012/2013(30 April).The group tied its stronger performance to the take-over of the Russian particleboard mill in Gagarin in Smolensk ...
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The Spanish laminate-flooring manufacturer Industrias Auxiliares Faus and associate company Andrés Faus filed for bankruptcy on 24 February 2012 at the commercial court in Valencia. The Valencia lawyer Vicente Rodriguez Esparza was ...
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The French company Espace Production International (EPI) battled a slight dip in revenues from its furniture and furniture parts division in the second quarter of 2012. On the other hand, the laminate flooring division managed to continue ...
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In recent weeks Pfleiderer has managed to substantiate the selling process, already prepared for a period of several months, for the European and North American laminate flooring activities which are consolidated in Pergo. At the end of ...
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Parador plans to post turnover of €143-145m in 2012. The company employed about 600 workers and generated turnover of €135m in 2011, an increase of a good 5%. Parador's laminate flooring activities delivered an improvement of ...
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First, what is a hand-scraped floor? An authentic hand-scraped (hand-sculpted) wood floor has a distinctive surface texture. To make our collections, each plank is scraped with a tool for a distinctive, one-of-a-kind floor. No two planks ...
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The European laminate flooring markets have not recovered in the second half-year 2012 either. Several manufacturers believe demand fell again during the course of the third quarter; the downhill trend has gathered pace in the fourth ...
Balta announces the appointment of Hendrik Deruyck as Chief Executive Officer of Balta Group. Hendrik knows Balta very well, as he was Business Unit manage rof ITC until 2000, and was instrumental in setting up the vinyl factory IVC in ...
Mohawk Industries Inc. announced 2012 third quarter net earnings of $70 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.01. Excluding restructuring charges, net earnings were $72 million and EPS was $1.04, a 25% increase over last year's ...
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The US flooring group Mohawk is to acquire the Pergo European and North American laminate flooring operations from Pfleiderer. The share deal includes Pergo LLC and Pergo AB, with production facilities in North America and Sweden, as well ...
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The US flooring group Mohawk Industries is to acquire the Pergo European and North American laminate flooring operations from Pfleiderer. The share deal encompasses Pergo LLC and Pergo AB as well as patent rights pooled in Pergo’s ...
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