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Seventy-year veteran of the flooring business, co-founder of Shaw Industries and founder of Engineered Floors Bob Shaw sits down with publisher Kemp Harr to talk about his outlook for the flooring business amid COVID-19 and the changes its wrought.
Contributing editor Lew Migliore takes a close look at the challenges involved in installing LVT, including substrate moisture, expansion and contraction with temperature changes and the challenges of glueless installation systems.
Manufacturers are reducing their use of water and energy, the solid waste tonnage and greenhouse emissions, and they’re lowering the embodied carbon of their products. Executive editor Darius Helm explores sustainability in the flooring industry.
Executive editor Darius Helm examines the focus on greener chemistries, which has heavily influenced the flooring industry’s evolution, as well as how greener building materials have helped drive the growth of models for health and wellness.
Contributing editor Lew Migliore writes about LVT installation, its reaction to environmental conditions, solvents and surfactants, slip resistance, dimensional stability, wearlayer performance and much more.
Executive editor Darius Helm takes a close look at the expansion and renovation of Methodist Mansfield Medical Center’s neonatal intensive care unit, designed by Perkins + Will and featuring Ecore’s Rx resilient flooring collection.
The COVID-19 outbreak is changing consumers’ spending habits and priorities, including what they buy and how they buy it. Editor Meg Scarbrough takes a look at things flooring retailers should know and how they can react to the changing landscape.
Stephen and Kathleen Cloud, owners of M. Frank Higgins Co., talk about changes in the commercial design arena and how health and wellness are taking center stage. Hear what trends they are seeing and how they factored into their new offices.
Publisher Kemp Harr talks about the newly reinstated tariffs on luxury vinyl tile produced in China and what it could mean for flooring produced there, as well as how important it is for flooring retailers to be adaptable to changing consumer habits.
Russ Rogg, president of Metroflor and chief product officer of HMTX products, talks with publisher Kemp Harr about his career in the flooring industry, the strategic plan for HMTX and the advice he has for his children as they forge their futures.