The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) and the University of Minnesota are pleased to announce the members of the InformeDesign Advisory Board.

Shaw Industries Inc. has announced that the company will not attend Surfaces 2004 in January.

Shaw Contract's flux systems program has received the Best of NeoCon Gold Award in the broadloom carpet category at the acclaimed interior design show in Chicago recently.

Pergo, leading manufacturer and marketer of laminate flooring, recently welcomed BPI of Memphis, Tenn., as its newest distributor.

Lees Carpets' rbn broadloom carpet collection won a silver in the broadloom category at this year's Best of NeoCon awards.

Sales of new homes hit a record pace in May. A recent Commerce Department shows that new, single-family homes rose 12.5 percent to a record 1.157 million annual rate.

Existing single-family home sales rose in May and were at the third-highest monthly pace on record, according to the National Association of Realtors.

North American Technologies Group Inc. (NATK) announced it has been awarded a cash grant from Carpet America Recovery Effort ("CARE") to continue research into the use of post-consumer carpet as a raw material for its TieTek composite railroad tie.

Shaw Industries Inc. was recently honored with the Environmental Protection Agency's Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award.

Effective July 1, Unilin Decor, the Belgium-based parent company of Quick-Step glueless laminate flooring, will change its name to Unilin Flooring.