Lord Corp., a supplier of coatings technology for the surfaces, panels and flooring industries, has acquired acrylic ultraviolet (UV) and waterborne coatings for wood products manufacturer L/T Technologies LLC.
Flooring America has launched its redesigned website, FlooringAmerica.com, providing visitors with the visual appeal and content they want, and the easy access and navigation they need, according to the company.
The fifth annual George Buckhardt Memorial Golf Outing
will be hosted by George's Flooring Supplies, now part of Carpet Cushions and Supplies, at Colonial Oaks Golf Course in Fort Wayne, Ind.
To accommodate the more than 10,500 athletes who arrived in Athens, Greece, for Olympic competition, new athletic facilities and an Olympic Village needed to be constructed before the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics. Tarkett Commercial supplied flooring for many of these new facilities -- including the locations where basketball, volleyball, beach volleyball, softball, handball, boxing, equestrian, weightlifting, fencing, field hockey, tennis and shooting events are being held.
Effective Sept. 13, the Dow Emulsion Polymers business is increasing the prices of all latex sold into the carpet industry by 5 cents per pound (dry) in the United States and Canada. This increase is in addition to the 5 cents-per-pound August price increase.
Dalton, Ga.-based commercial floor covering manufacturer Tandus Group Inc. has announced that it will close its broadloom carpet manufacturing plant in Santa Ana, Calif., and transfer most of those assets to its existing Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada, facility.
Q.E.P. Co. has acquired substantially all the assets of Naperville, Ill.-based Tuplex Corp., the manufacturer and distributor of the Harmony and Tuplex brands of underlayment for use under all laminate and engineered hardwood floating floors.
Congoleum Corp. has reported that sales for the three months ended June 30, 2004, were $63.0 million, compared with sales of $55.0 million reported in the second quarter of 2003, an increase of 14.5 percent. Net income for the quarter was $1.4 million versus a net loss of $2.0 million in the second quarter of 2003. Net income per share for the second quarter of 2004 was 16 cents, compared with a net loss per share of 24 cents in the year-earlier period.