Portobello America brings "Portobello Home" to Coverings 2025, featuring immersive life-scale spaces showcasing seven premium porcelain tile collections. The "Bossa on the Road Feels Like Home" concept transforms booth #2605 into a sensory journey highlighting American-made products that combine global design expertise with comfort and sustainability.
Clarksville-based Florim USA celebrates 25 years of American-made porcelain tile production, pioneering sustainability with the industry's first carbon-neutral collections and revolutionizing surfaces with its award-winning Digital Texture technology.
Daltile's new Artefino collection offers three-dimensional porcelain tile mosaics in three sub-collections: Jewel with rich tones and 3D-hexagon designs, Vintage with bold retro colors in various shapes, and Element featuring matte-finished capsule tiles suitable for both walls and floors.
Responding to global tariff volatility, Mannington Commercial highlights its American manufacturing foundation, with 96.4% of its products made in the USA.
WIFI and Women of Starnet partner to present a comprehensive WBE/MBE certification guide on April 25th at the Starnet Spring Meeting in Carlsbad. The session covers certification processes, partnership opportunities, and success stories, providing valuable insights for both certification seekers and potential business partners.
Antolini's "village" at Coverings 2025 will showcase Alessandro La Spada's archipelago-inspired pavilion with nine stone islands featuring the Exclusive Collection, Textures+ innovations, Cristallo Vitrum "Wow" tableware, and gemstone-adorned Lady A jewelry—a paradise where natural stone's finest expressions meet cutting-edge Italian craftsmanship.
Growing economic uncertainty stemming from tariff concerns and elevated building material costs kept builder sentiment in negative territory in April, despite a modest bump in confidence likely due to a slight retreat in mortgage interest rates in recent weeks.
The International Surface Event has announced four regional qualifier locations for its 2025 Installer of the Year Competition, partnering with CFI and Mohawk Flooring. Installers will compete in Carpet and Engineered Wood categories in Boston, Minneapolis, Denver, and Dalton, with regional winners advancing to the national finals at TISE 2026 in Las Vegas.
Go Carrera’s cloud-based labor management platform is designed to match flooring installers, contractors and retailers with the right job or contractor, simplify the bidding and payment process.
Brazil reinforces its global natural stone leadership at Coverings 2025 with 57 exhibitors, primarily from Espírito Santo state. After exporting $1.26 billion in natural stone in 2024 with the United States as its primary market, Brazil aims to strengthen business partnerships through an architect-designed pavilion featuring hanging gardens and showcasing material elegance.
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