Luxury vinyl tile and plank floorcoverings (LVT) are among the hottest flooring products in the market today, and their use is growing exponentially in the commercial, hospitality and residential ...

After a period of contraction, the U.S. education construction market stabilized in 2014, growing 1% to $78 billion, according to Market Insights LLC. This year got off to a slow start, actually ...

A growing category in the commercial market for decades, carpet tile has found favor with the architecture and design community due to its willingness to evolve, its style-forward character and ...

Black Mesa, AZ, August 5--Mary Lou Thinn perches on the faded pink cushions in front of her 4- by 5-foot loom. A new day has barely broken. Before her routine of herding sheep and preparing ...

Assistant to the chairman at Engineered Floors, James Lesslie grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, the son of an Internal Revenue Service manager and a teacher. After earning degrees in ...

Over the decades, various flooring producers have attempted to distribute residential hard surface flooring direct from the factory to specialty flooring retailers, many of them unsuccessfully.

Mohawk Industries is launching a new concept in soft flooring that not only breaks the mold on traditional manufacturing methods but, more importantly, offers retailers and consumers new features ...

The acute healthcare segment is an evolving market with a bevy of flooring needs. Many of these needs are driven by safety—prevention of slips and falls and infection resistance—but protecting ...

While the carpet industry was fairly flat last year, not all carpet backing producers experienced the same lull in activity. Residential carpet sales were slower than commercial sales, so backings ...

Kennesaw, GA, June 4-- DuPont Flooring Systems, a division of DuPont Textiles and Interiors, has changed its name to The Invironmentalists. The new name reflects the firm's new market focus on ...

Dalton, Ga., Dec. 24--The inaugural meeting of the newly formed Synthetic Turf Council (STC) held the week of December 1st in Orlando, Fla. produced an unexpected result. During these meetings ...

Washington, DC, Nov. 18--The Bush administration, in a further escalation of trade tensions between the United States and China, announced Tuesday it had decided to impose quotas on three types of ...