Shaw Industries Group Inc. — a Dalton, Ga.-based floor covering provider and subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. — has opened a 210,000-square-foot carpet tile manufacturing plant in Nantong, China, to help the company expand ...
Tags: Carpet Tile, Construction, Decoration
September 6, 2013, Dallas -- Hanley Wood announced today the launch of two events designed to bring the flooring and surfaces industries together. TileExpo, a new trade show focused on the tile industry, will launch in conjunction with ...
Tags: Wood, Construction
With immediate effect, Environmental Product Declaration sheets (EPDs) are available for almost all MasterTop flooring products from BASF. BASF is thus the first manufacturer of polyurethane and epoxy floor covering systems to publish ...
Tags: Epoxy Flooring, BASF
One of the most neglected parts of our house is the garage. All the old and rejected household articles are kept inside the garage. Garden tools, chemicals, cans of gas and many such useless or less-attractive things are put up in the ...
Tags: Garage Floor, Floor Covering
Shaw Industries Group Inc. — a Dalton, Ga.-based floor covering provider and subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. — will invest $85 million to build a modular carpet tile manufacturing facility in Adairsville, Ga., and add 500 ...
Tags: Textile
Surfaces and ICRI are partnering to provide the floor covering industry a new certification at Surfaces | StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas 2014. The ICRI Concrete Slab Moisture Testing Certification Program will be offered for the first time at ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Flexitions has launched a new division outside of the floor covering industry, which will manufacture products for the gun industry. The new division of Flexitions is called GX2 Defense. Flexitions has taken its technology used to ...
Tags: Security, protection, Gun Industry
Tarkett has expanded its ReStart Recycling and Reclamation Program by adding consolidators to the process. Erv Parent, NRF Distributors, Inc. and Johnson Wholesale Floors with Brumark have joined the program as the first consolidators, ...
Tags: Recycling industry, Construction
The Resilient Floor Covering Institute released five industry average Environmental Product Declarations, making resilient flooring the first floorcovering category to offer industry average EPDs. Five types of resilient flooring were ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Gov. Nathan Deal announced that Shaw Industries Group, Inc. will build a new facility in Bartow County to manufacture modular carpet tiles. The company is expected to make an $85 million investment in Georgia and create 500 new jobs. ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Scott Humphrey, president and CEO of the World Floor Covering Association (WFCA) will serve as MC for the FloorTek Expo VIP Breakfast on Tuesday, September 10 at 7:30 am. Mr. Humphrey was with Shaw Industries for 24 years as head of its ...
Tags: Textil
Wellmade Floor Coverings International, Inc. is proud to announce it has been awarded the coveted FloorScore Indoor Air Quality Certification for a full-range of solid and engineered strand woven bamboo flooring, as well as traditional ...
Tags: floor, Construction, Decoration
With just two weeks until FloorTek Expo opens, it was announced one of three 2014 Daytona 500 Race Packages to be given away to a lucky attendee each day of the show. "We felt that since the floor covering industry is revving up, why not ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, floor
Scott Humphrey, Chief Executive Officer of the World Floor Covering Association (WFCA) announced that entries for the coveted annual Gold Standard Award are now being accepted. The Gold Standard Award is presented each year to one WFCA ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
The North American Association of Floor Covering Distributors (NAFCD) is pleased to announce the release of the Quarterly Executive Trends Index, a robust benchmarking and forecasting tool for members. The report, compiled by a leading ...
Tags: Construction, flooring