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Home » Coverings 2016 Wrap-Up: New Products, More Energy
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Coverings 2016 Wrap-Up: New Products, More Energy

Coverings 2016
Coverings 2016 was held at McCormick Place in Chicago.
Atlas Concorde's Redeem and Forge
During Coverings 2016, Atlas Concorde announced Atlas Concorde USA, a new company which will focus exclusively on the U.S. market. Among the nine new collections for the U.S. launch are Redeem wood-look and Forge metallic-look tile (both pictured).
Laticrete's 60th anniversary party
Laticrete celebrated its 60th anniversary with a party at the House of Blues in Chicago.
Crossville booth

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, Crossville’s booth was busy throughout the show.

Coverings show floor
The show floor was crowded and bustling during Coverings.
Dancik's bourbon and scotch tasting
Dancik held a bourbon and scotch tasting during the first two days of the show.
Mike Chmielecki posing with Microban mascot

Floor Trends senior editor, Mike Chmielecki, poses with a microbe mascot outside of Florida Tile’s booth. The mascot promoted the partnership between Florida Tile and Microban.

Marazzi's newest collections

Marazzi’s newest collections are inspired by concrete, wood and industrial design looks.

MAPEIs new introductions

Among MAPEI’s newest introductions were five grout color collections and Ultracolor Plus FA grout, which features fine aggregate in a rapid-setting product.

Custom Building Products ice cream tasting event
Custom Building Products offered an ice cream tasting that tied into an old promotional campaign comparing grout colors to ice cream flavors.
Coverings 2016
Atlas Concorde's Redeem and Forge
Laticrete's 60th anniversary party
Crossville booth
Coverings show floor
Dancik's bourbon and scotch tasting
Mike Chmielecki posing with Microban mascot
Marazzi's newest collections
MAPEIs new introductions
Custom Building Products ice cream tasting event
June 15, 2016
Michael Chmielecki
KEYWORDS ceramic tile / commercial market / grout and mortar / natural stone
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Coverings 2016, held recently at McCormick Place in Chicago, featured more than 1,100 exhibitors of tile and stone products and services. While attendance numbers were not available at press time, consensus on the show floor was that attendance was up. Exhibitors polled during the show said the event was busy and bustling, with an elevated level of energy.

Atlas Concorde used the show as a launching pad for Atlas Concorde USA, a new company based out of Franklin, Tenn., featuring the tagline “Styled in Italy. Proudly American.” According to Maurizio Mazzotti, president of the new company, “We will blend American style with Italian creativity to present something new [to the market].”

Davide Saguatti, marketing director for Atlas Concorde USA, stated, “We are launching nine new collections that combine the contemporary and the classic, with one metal, one wood and one fabric collection.”

The nine collections are: Redeem, a wood-look tile; Fray, a distressed fabric look; Forge, offering metallic shades evoking the look of corrosion and oxidation; Ridge, a mix of traditional and rustic stone looks; Path, featuring a vein-cut travertine visual; Eon, a marble look with lots of variation; Motion, a veined marble look; Sign, a travertine marble visual with delicate veining; and Get, a metropolitan-inspired look.

Florida Tile’s exhibit featured a furry blue “microbe” standing outside the booth and interacting with customers, as a nod to the partnership between Florida Tile and Microban antimicrobial protection. Sean Cilona, Florida Tile’s director of marketing and product development, stated, “The theme for us this year is the commercial side of the business. We have new presses and new equipment in Kentucky and so we are able to do larger sizes.”

He also announced a new partnership: “We are going to be the exclusive supplier of the Cotto d’Este brand in the U.S. It’s an ultra-premium luxury porcelain line, and the most installed thin tile in the world. We’ll be supplying the product through our inventory and our sales team in the U.S.”

Soci returned to Coverings after several years away. According to Connie Gumm, Soci’s vice president, “It’s our first year back since 2011. We’re returning with a new booth, a new logo and a new website. We’re also unveiling our first-ever porcelain line.”

New Products for Contractors

Gino Soroker, brand manager for first-time exhibitor Kemper System America, showcased his company’s Kemperol 022, a solvent-free, fully reinforced, two-component resin waterproofing system.

“Our company has been around since 1957,” Soroker explained. “We are generally a spec-driven product, and are well-known by architects for our exterior-grade waterproofing and roofing systems.”

The company noticed that contractors were using its exterior-grade waterproofing product indoors, so Kemper developed a system that’s easier to use in interior applications under tile. “The system includes a resin, reinforcing fleece and silica sand, which is broadcast into the resin while it is still wet,” Soroker stated. “We came to Coverings to tell the [tile and stone] world about it.”

Kemper wasn’t the only seasoned manufacturer testing the waters of the tile market. Joel Guth, president of iQ Power Tools, demonstrated his company’s iQTS244, a dry-cut tile saw with integrated dust control.

“We started building our first units 15 years ago, but we are primarily known for masonry saws,” Guth noted. “We looked at the growth going on in the tile industry, and decided to bring our 15 years of saw technology into this.”

The saw incorporates a 92 CFM high-output vacuum that starts running as soon as the saw turns on, a filter system designed for easy cleaning and a dust containment tray that only needs to be emptied once a day, Guth said.

Shane Smith, marketing manager for Bellota, demonstrated his company’s POP Tile Cutters, which can be used to cut porcelain, ceramic and mosaic glass tile via a replaceable tungsten carbide cutting wheel. “Rubber pads secure tile to the base when scoring, and absorb shock when breaking the tile,” he explained.

Tony Pasquarelli, Custom Building Products’ director of marketing services, previewed two new products: SpeedSlope and RedGard SpeedCoat. “SpeedSlope is a rapid-setting sloping mortar. SpeedCoat is a rapid-curing waterproofing membrane,” he said.

He added that the products are designed for the rapid installation of custom-made showers. “People remodeling now are either ripping out an existing bathtub and putting in a shower, or expanding their existing shower. They are throwing away the idea of a standard-sized shower. These products offer flexibility to those remodelers.”

Coverings 2017 is slated for April 4-7, 2017, in Orlando, Fla. For more information, visit coverings.com.

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Michael Chmielecki wrote about the floor covering industry for BNP Media for more than ten years. As editor of Floor Covering Installer and senior editor of Floor Trends, he always sought ways to better connect and inform the installation and contracting community. Mike has a degree in journalism from the University of New Hampshire.

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