If there was any doubt as to whether the industry is starting to bounce back from the deep pit it fell in due to the Great Recession, one only needed to attend this year’s Surfaces, as both exhibitor and attendees expressed the kind of optimism and hope that had been absent for the last six-plus years.
From soft surface to hard surface, manufacturers of all products and of all sizes were expressing a renewed optimism in business in general and with how the market itself was.