Four flooring retailers in southwest Ohio today became the first in the area to offer health and environmental scorecards for their full line of “green” flooring products, along with virtually every traditional product they carry.
Throughout the country, prisons are stressing state budgets. Recidivism rates are high, driving costs even higher and reducing public safety. And for the small cohort of state inmates who have very high health care needs, the costs are higher still.
Chinese wood flooring producer HuaNan HeXin Wood Co., Ltd. has signed a license for use of Välinge's mechanical locking systems. Hexin will introduce the 2G locking system on solid wood flooring products.
Johnsonite, the commercial arm of Tarkett, was recently awarded the 2012 Green GOOD DESIGN Award for its iQ vinyl flooring product line, the only resilient flooring that restores itself with dry buffing.
Strengthening house prices in metros across the country contributed to slightly lower housing affordability in the second quarter, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index (HOI), released today.
Montville Township police are investigating an apparent burglary of between $8,000 and $9,000 worth of flooring materials from a Pine Brook business' vehicle.
The 2012 edition of the Radiant Flooring Guide, a joint venture by the Radiant Professionals Alliance and BNP Media, recently was presented a 2012 APEX Award for Publication Excellence in the Custom-Published Magazines & Journals category.
At the 19th CFI Convention in Nashville on August 9, 2012, the first annual Chris Davis Award was presented to Bernie Madden, owner of Madden-McFarland Interiors, LTD of Leawood, KS for recognition and dedication to quality flooring installation through CFI.
ProSpec is launching a new formulation of its Floor Patch Pro, a polymer-modified, cement-based skim coat and patching product. This new formula has a 15-minute initial set time and accepts most floor coverings in as little as 30 minutes.