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Contributing editor Lew Migliore discusses the issues that can arise if medium-density and high-density fiberboard cores are used in the wrong settings. Knowing the core of each product can increase the success rate for any application.
Editor Jessica Chevalier reviews the niche sector of transportation, including the products required for airline flooring and the stability aviation carpet businesses can offer to those who break through the high barrier of entry.
Editor Beth Miller gives a sneak peek of flooring introductions at the upcoming Surfaces show taking place in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event draws close to 40,000 people due to its partnership with the Las Vegas Market.
Editor Beth Miller highlights firms that have chosen to showcase their new products through venues other than Surfaces. These firms include: Shaw, Metroflor, Chilewich, Flexco, Oriental Weavers, Emil Group, Object Carpet and Milliken.
Executive editor Darius Helm discusses how carpet backings have gone through comprehensive redesigns in response to a decade-long loss in marketshare to hard surface flooring. Recent innovations target polyester carpet and latex binders.
Executive editor Darius Helm covers products from the floorcovering landscape that have evolved to ensure successful LVT installations. Producers of self-leveling products and adhesives are among those who have stepped up their game for LVT.
Contributing editor Jim Dion explains the next step retailers can take to create a customer-centric environment, which includes being both mindful and proactive toward potential buyers in order to keep them from switching over to Amazon.
Publisher Kemp Harr reviews the biggest changes EF has made following the Beaulieu America acquisition, plans for brand strategy on the residential side and future product plans concerning sourcing and diversification.
Publisher Kemp Harr provides perspective on the new tax reform law and how it will impact the flooring industry, and reviews the factors that are contributing to a healing economy as well as discusses Shaw's launch of its new Anderson Tuftex brand.
Greg Holcomb, design director of IDGroup, highlights how Spaces, a co-working environment, simultaneously honored its building's origins with an industrial look and created an enlightened facility with a host of amenities.