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Editor Darius Helm offers an overview of the three IP firms and reports on recent innovations, including new click systems, direct digital printing, lightweighting technologies, PVC-free resilient flooring developments and wood flooring innovations.
Editor Jessica Chevalier takes a look at the issues involved in producing LVT domestically, from consumer sentiment to factory strategies, and she offers updates from AHF Products, Engineered Floors, Mannington, Nox, Novalis, Shaw and CFL.
Editor Darius Helm reports on the state of the single-family housing market, including comprehensive 2023 results, a flooring overview, builder strategies and what to expect from the market this year and beyond.
Floor Focus showcases designs from Spark Award contract dealer winners, with categories including Best in Show, Most Creative Flooring Design, Most Maximized Budget, Best Flooring Solution, Most Aggressive Timeline and Toughest Site Conditions.
Publisher Kemp Harr discusses improvements in home sale numbers, and he also reports on three buying group meetings in March: Fuse Commercial Flooring Alliance, National Floorcovering Alliance and Alliance Flooring.
Publisher Kemp Harr interviews Iris Ceramica’s Hector Narvaez, discussing his tenures with Marazzi and Dal-Tile, his mentors, what it takes to be a great communicator, team building strategies, and the challenges facing the tile industry in the U.S.
Fabiano Designs’ Kaleena Vasilik reports on the redesign of Houston’s Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa, including how flooring from Ecore, Gerflor, Artistic Tile, DuroDesign, Mohawk Group and Junckers helped achieve the design vision.
Editor Jessica Chevalier profiles Colorado-based Floorz, a contract dealer in the business since the turn of the millennium, covering developments over the last 24 years, project management strategies, investing in people and collaboration.
Contributing editor Ryan Fasan writes about the history of digital printing on tile, which goes back 23 years with machinery from Spain’s KeraJet, as well as new and innovative printing techniques and what the future holds.
Contributing editor Sam Allman writes about the ‘epidemic of homophily,” which is the tendency for people to seek out those that are similar to them, and he argues for the benefits of diversity, ending with four dimensions of people power.