Coverings announced today that Steve Forbes, president and CEO of Forbes Inc., and editor-in-chief of Forbes Magazine, will be the show's keynote speaker.

Invista, the manufacturer of Antron carpet fiber, will retire 11,726,000 pounds of global warming credits to offset emissions caused by energy use at the 2003 U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Nov. 12-14, 2003.

BlueBolt announced the addition of industry-standard environmental information aligned with leading green building systems and practices to its online library of more than 60,000 products.

Pergo has announced that it will exhibit at the annual Surfaces show in Las Vegas.

Custom Building Products offers a new flagship product to lead the company's line of architecturally engineered, polymer-modified thin set mortars.

C&A Floorcoverings, a Tandus company, has earned Environmentally Preferable Product (EPP) certification for its entire line of ER3 modular carpet and 6-foot structured back broadloom.

Columbia Flooring has announced that the company's hardwood and laminate flooring products have been selected by Abbey Carpet, Floors To Go and The Floor Club stores to be offered at more than 850 storefronts nationwide.

Mohawk Industries Inc. has completed the acquisition of Lees Carpet for approximately $346 million subject to adjustment for working capital amounts at closing.

Alloc Inc. has appointed a new distributor to the Pacific Northwest.

MMP Capital Partners, L.P., an affiliate of the Washington, D.C.-based Milestone Merchant Partners L.L.C., has purchased Florida Tile Industries Inc. from Illinois Tool Works Inc.