Floor Covering News

MARCH 29, 2024

—It has been billed as “the Surfaces of the Northeast,” and for many retailers located in New England, upstate New York and parts of Pennsylvania, NRF Distributors’ New England Flooring Market (NEFM) is indeed their signature flooring event of the season. echoing a refrain shared by many of his fellow retailers.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Most professional installers would agree the ultimate success of any flooring installation largely depends on the condition of the subfloor that lies beneath. The meter is also used for moisture measurements of the actual floor covering and subfloors.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 10, 2024

In a move that was panned by some flooring retailers, California consumers began paying as much as 36% more for carpet on Jan. This assessment increase is needed to meet the minimum reserve fund balance by the end of 2025, as required by CalRecycle in CARE’s new plan. 1, 2024, as part of a California recycling statute.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 4, 2022

Cohen is slated to become the association’s board president in 2025, according to the Natural Stone Institute. The post Evan Cohen selected as NSI board secretary appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 30, 2024

Chicago—J+J Flooring will be showcasing a variety of commercial flooring collections to the architecture and design community at its flagship showroom here during the second annual Fulton Market Design Days event, held here June 10–12. Participants must visit the J+J Flooring showroom in-person to enter.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 3, 2024

Fort Worth, Texas—Advanced Flooring Technology has announced the opening of a new training facility for floor covering installers here. This training facility will be made available for any floor covering training entity,” said Robert Varden, founder and owner of AFT. Class bookings for AFT training classes extend into 2025. “We

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As we continue our focus on a sustainable future through product innovation, carbon reduction and water restoration, we have already significantly exceeded our 2025 goals in three important environmental categories: Scope 1 & 2 GHG emissions intensity; waste-to-landfill intensity; and water withdrawal intensity. year over year and 35.3%

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

L as V egas —With every major flooring manufacturer represented, and with international attendees returning at their highest level in years, Surfaces ’24 very much hit the mark as the industry’s most important flooring event. “A Flooring dealers agreed Surfaces 2024 stood out in a number of ways. “I People were happy.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Of course, there are many issues of specific concern to the flooring industry. To that end, Floor Covering News asked several prominent retailers to identify the issues that are important to them and how they would like Congress to address it. Lauren Voit , Great Western Flooring Immigration and the open border are of major concern.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 18, 2024

Many of North America’s largest and most influential commercial floor covering contractors assembled here this week for the 2024 Starnet spring conference. The theme of this year’s spring conference, “Chart Your Course,” alludes to both the host city as well as the current state of the commercial flooring sector. Amelia Island, Fla.—Many

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Distributors have played a critical role in the flooring ecosystem. Historically speaking, distributors have played a critical role in the flooring ecosystem. FCNews asked distribution executives for their views: On distribution circa 2025… Bob Weiss, CEO, All Tile. Eric Parrish, president, Midwest Floors.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 29, 2024

We wanted to get it to them early since 2025 is projected to be a rebound year.” In addition to first access to 2025 product launches, retailers attending Edge Summit can take advantage of education sessions and enjoy one-on-one time with Mohawk’s top executives. Brett Bentz, president, Harrisburg Wall & Flooring, Harrisburg, Pa.,

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 29, 2024

“Overlooking the Rockies and offering unparalleled opportunities for even greater retail success, Edge Summit 2025 promises to be exceptional,” said Kelli Widdifield, Mohawk’s senior vice president of marketing. The post Registration for Mohawk Edge Summit 2024 opens soon appeared first on Floor Covering News. Learn more here.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 10, 2020

Mosaic floors and backsplashes are hugely popular today. Natural stone can etch and stain, so stick to using the material in unique ways vs. whole house floor installations. Nothing will make an installation look more dated in 2025 than using man-made, imitative materials created in 2019 and installed in 2021.

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APRIL 25, 2022

Milliken & Company published its fourth annual sustainability report, a key reporting component in the company’s progress toward its 2025 sustainability goals. management team by 8% and announced that its entire flooring portfolio is now carbon neutral. . Spartanburg, S.C.—Milliken

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Waregem, Belgium—Unilin Technologies has introduced a PFAS-free formulation for waterproof coatings, aligning with forthcoming bans on harmful chemicals such as PFAS (fluorine) in products in the EU and US market, starting in 2025. The post Unilin Technologies launches PFAS-free coating solution appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 27, 2024

Consolidated Flooring, led by David Meberg, left, won Grand Prize in the annual Starnet awards competition. Many of North America’s largest and most influential commercial floor covering contractors assembled here earlier this month for the 2024 Starnet spring conference. Take Consolidated Flooring’s experience, for example.

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APRIL 24, 2023

Floor Covering News is here for the start of the FCA Network 2023 annual convention, the 25th edition of the event. Andrea O’Connell, owner of Graham’s Flooring & Design, Loveland, Colo., The post FCA Network 2023 annual convention kicks off appeared first on Floor Covering News. Scottsdale, Ariz.—

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JANUARY 24, 2024

That was the main thrust of a pair of informative economic keynote presentations delivered by ITR Economics last fall during the North American Association of Floor Covering Distributors+ North American Building Materials Distribution Association (NAFCD+NBMDA) conference. Outlook on U.S. Lowering interest rates will help.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Armstrong Flooring released the company’s first third-party assured, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)-compliant sustainability report. The post Armstrong releases third-party assured sustainability report appeared first on Floor Covering News. Lancaster, Pa.—Armstrong Full report here.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

No one is expecting floor covering distributors to post banner sales numbers for 2023—certainly not in an environment marked by high inflation and a slumping new home construction market. If you’re on the non-residential side of the street, you’re going to be doing very well in 2024 but you’re going to see some pain in 2025.”

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 5, 2024

“We need to keep in mind, when you’re watching this data, that housing is telling us about what’s going to be happening more like late ’24 or 2025.” The post Economics: Silver lining in latest housing numbers appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

The consensus among the major resilient flooring suppliers is that once the dust clears, 2023 will see resilient sales down mid-to-high single digits. “A In fact, FCNews ’ Statistical issue showed just how important price increases were to the flooring industry in 2022. It truly is the flooring of the future.”

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APRIL 16, 2024

Tuesday, June 11, 2024 CEU: Trends impacting 2025 and beyond 10:00 a.m. Speaker: Mark Bryan, senior foresight manager, Future Today Institute Trends impacting 2025 and beyond delves deep into the trends poised to reshape the built environment landscape with business and design-level insights. To register, head here.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 28, 2024

My take: The mainstream media is a farce (not including the flooring trade press). One of the dangers to the Fed being so transparent about where interest rates are going is that everyone will hold back and wait until the cost of capital is lower before they start to invest their money again, probably late this year and in 2025.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 16, 2024

We are forecasting more rapid growth in 2025 with still lower mortgage rates and a persistent housing shortfall.” The housing market, a major driver of residential flooring sales, appears to have passed peak mortgage rates. The projected housing market upswing is welcome news to the flooring industry.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 18, 2024

Dalton—It has been 12 years since Piet Dossche turned the flooring industry upside down when he launched WPC in the United States and soon after its SPC iteration, all under the “waterproof” umbrella. International Flooring Co. But equally important, how the brand will be different than everything they saw on the show floor. “It

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 23, 2024

Since many of them will already be employed by 2025 and 2026, your company’s best chance to find new employees or poach from a competitor will be in 2024. We know that shopping for floor covering is often a terrible user experience, and most retailers don’t have much ability to change that. economy and jobs.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 2, 2023

Through future-forward programming and with hundreds of exhibitors, the NeoCon show floors will offer an immersive display of what designers and specifiers should consider when creating a better built environment—from generational design, ESG prioritization, to technology integration and global perspectives.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 30, 2023

The commercial flooring sector is going to see growth through the middle of 2024. On the back side of 2024, the rate of growth is going to slow for commercial, and then it’ll be a mild recession during the first half of 2025. The post ITR Economics’ outlook on the commercial market appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Carpet One Floor & Home, Flooring America, Flooring Canada, The Floor Trader and International Design Guild members will take part in an exciting lineup of events, including a keynote from real estate magnate and ABC’s “Shark Tank” Barbara Corcoran. appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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MARCH 20, 2023

M ore evidence that things are not as bad out there as others might have you believe: The Abbey/ Floors to Go convention in Nashville last week drew near record attendance. The good news for the flooring industry, being tied into housing and residential remodel, is we are usually first in and first out. ITR is projecting a 0.3%

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 4, 2024

Those were just of the main findings of a wide-ranging keynote presentation delivered by Lauren Saidel-Baker, economist with ITR Economics, in her address to commercial flooring contractors in attendance at the recent Fuse Alliance conference here earlier this month. I expect cooling for the rest of this year and a mild pullback in 2025.”

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 14, 2022

With inflation comes some fear consumers will have less disposable income for purchases like flooring. Not until late 2025 and into 2026.” As demand settles to a more sustainable level, there will still be plenty of need for flooring. The cost to fill up a large SUV these days is greater than some countries’ GDP.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 20, 2023

The flooring industry has its share of disrupters seeking to change the rules of competition simply by doing things differently. Floor Covering News’ Industry Disrupters 2023 issue features players large and small who are intent on shaking thing up. Think Amazon, Facebook and Uber.) ChatGPT Smith.ai

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JULY 6, 2022

There’s a bear market coming—probably around 2025—but there’ll be corrections to be made in between.”. In 2025, the economy is going to slow down. The post Economics: ITR forecast signals return to ‘normalized’ growth appeared first on Floor Covering News. And when you look at the price-to-earnings ratio, it’s very high.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

is predicted to grow nearly $80 billion by 2025. The post 10 social media trends for 2022 appeared first on Floor Covering News. And it’s revolutionizing the way we shop: 60% of gen zers in the U.S. use Instagram to discover new brands and products. Social commerce in the U.S.

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