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West Warwick, RI, April 28, 2008--Natco Products Corp. is expanding its domestic area rug and accent rug machine-made operations, adding 60,000 square feet to its existing 100,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Sanford, Maine.
Vienna, Austria, April 28, 2008--Oil prices hit an all-time high just short of $120 a barrel today after a weekend refinery strike closed a pipeline system that delivers a third of Britain's North Sea oil to refineries in the U.K.
Salem, NJ, April 28, 2008 – Mannington Mills has named Zack Zehner vice president of commercial hard surface. Zehner has been with Mannington’s residential division since 2003.
Fresno, CA, April 28, 2008--A fire Saturday night at a Big Bob's Carpet store that caused about $80,000 in damage was started by a smoldering cigarette, according to firefighters.
Darien, CT, April 25, 2008 – Starnet has a new website, designed to handle the increase in traffic the site has seen as membership has grown.
Zhongshan, China, April 28, 2008--New Elegant Living Timber Manufacturing Ltd. has signed an agreement with Malaysian timber firm Samling Global Ltd on material supply.
Saint George, SC, April 28, 2008--A Saint George recycling plant that handled carpet and other materials was destroyed by fire.
San Rafael, CA, April 28, 2008--Sustainable flooring company EcoTimber, recently acquired by a private equity firm, will move from San Rafael to a much larger 20,000 square foot site in Richmond.
Kish Island, Iran, April 28, 2008--The Second Kish International Hand-Woven Carpet Exhibition is slated for April 29 to May 2.
Lancaster, PA, April 25, 2008--Armstrong World Industriesis planting and managing 506,000 hardwood trees this year in the U.S. in partnership with the Hardwood Forestry Fund.