November 7, 2006—Frank O’Neill, Co-Publisher Floor Focus Magazine discusses The Dixie Group’s third quarter earnings, The Carpet & Rug Institute’s consumer research project assessing consumer attitudes about carpet, More on the Floor Focus Top 250 Design Survey 2006 and the honesty factor in dealings with designers and Armstrong’s contemplation of a vinyl plant in Mexico.
November 6, 2006—Franco Rossi, President, Aquafil USA, in the first part of a two-part series, discusses the grand opening of the company’s new yarn extrusion facility in Cartersville, Georgia and the people who were on hand for the event. Rossi talks about the facility, its capacity, the products manufactured at the new plant and the company’s focus going forward.
November 6, 2006—Mike Barker, Investment and Retirement Management discusses the Labor Department’s jobs numbers, which were released this past Friday and the sizable differences between the preliminary numbers released in August and September and the revised numbers released in Friday report and what this means for the creditability of the report. Barker discusses the decline in Mohawk shares since the company reported third quarter earnings and the latest on the housing market.
November 4, 2006—Jon Dougal, Editor of Green Building News, in the first part of a four-part series, discusses the concept of life cycle assessment or life cycle analysis, its goals and its rationale. In this segment Dougal defines the concept and lists the elements involved in the process of establishing a life cycle assessment rating.
November 4, 2006—Jon Dougal, Editor of Green Building News, in the second part of a four-part series, discusses the concept of life cycle assessment or life cycle analysis. In this segment Dougal talks about the process some companies call on to carry out this process and how the process should be perceived and how life cycle analysis relates to the floor covering industry.
November 4, 2006—Jon Dougal, editor of Green Building News, in the third part of a four-part series, discusses the concept of life cycle assessment or life cycle analysis. In this segment Dougal talks about how life cycle analysis is used in comparing two flooring products, how the concept is currently being used in purchasing floor coverings and other products, how the process is evolving and where it will likely be in the future.
November 4, 2006—Jon Dougal, editor of Green Building News, in the final part of a four-part series, discusses the changes in the LEED sustainable building rating system related to wood, bio-based materials and rapidly renewable materials like cork and bamboo. In this segment Dougal defines the two sides of the discussion with the timber industry on one side and rapidly renewable materials industries on the other and how this debate has spilled over into the public policy arena
November 3, 2006—Bob Peoples, executive director of Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) and director of sustainability at the Carpet& Rug Institute (CRI), in the final part of a four-part series talks about the Green Carpet Standard becoming a national standard and the plans for the current draft to be advanced to a final version in time for GreenBuild 2007 in Los Angeles. Also discussed is the recently held CARE entrepreneur meeting, topics on the agenda, including the fundamentals of carpet identification technology, processing equipment and how members can increase the volume of collected carpet.
November 2, 2006—Bob Peoples, executive director of Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) and director of sustainability at the Carpet& Rug Institute (CRI), in the third part of a four-part series talks about the Green Carpet Standard becoming a national standard and the plans for the current draft to be advanced to a final version in time for GreenBuild 2007 in Los Angeles. Also discussed is the recently held CARE entrepreneur meeting, topics on the agenda, including the fundamentals of carpet identification technology, processing equipment and how members can increase the volume of collected carpet.
October 31, 2006—Frank O’Neill, Co-Publisher Floor Focus Magazine discusses third quarter earnings from Mohawk and Armstrong, Invista’s agreement to acquire Honeywell’s nylon 6 operations in the Asia Pacific region and the results from Floor Focus magazine’s annual Top 250 Design Survey.