If you’re familiar with firearms, you know that, while caliber is important, it’s the type and construction of the bullet that is key to success. Just as a hollow-point bullet won’t penetrate an engine block, buckshot is unlikely to be effective when dove hunting.
When bamboo first arrived on the floor covering scene, it was akin to that third cousin you never see suddenly showing up on your doorstep, suitcase in hand.
I recently attended a meeting with a number of leaders in LVT manufacturing. One attendee referred to his product as “a luxury flooring system featuring vinyl chemistry technology.”That’s ingenious, and a pretty accurate definition of pure LVT.
Lee Lacocca’s famous quote, “Lead, follow or get out of the way!” From the early 1980s has a much more profound meaning today when you apply it to the new model of retail selling affecting the way you will be, or already are, doing business.
The heat-welding process arrived in North America in the late 1980s, a technique developed to ensure seam integrity, produce an aseptic-free seam and ride the move from felt-backed to vinyl-backed materials. In my travels looking at commercial resilient concerns, I am constantly encountering failures with the heat-weld process. After looking at many of these failures I have developed, in no particular order, a list of THE MOST COMMON.
Moisture problems have been plaguing our industry for the last two decades. It represents a problem of about $1 billion dollars annually to the industry.
Four flooring retailers in southwest Ohio recently became the first in the region to offer health and environmental scorecards for their full line of “green” flooring products along with virtually every traditional product they carry.