Lauzon Distinctive Hardwood Flooring, of Papineauville, Quebec, is one of 10 companies named by Canada’s International Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew as a winner of the 2001 Canada Export Awards.
Retail buying group CarpetsPlus of America has added a new sales region, headed by sales manager Joe Waid, to boost its membership growth in the southeast.
Organizers of Surfaces 2002, the floor covering industry’s biggest trade event, say that the upcoming edition of the show will be even bigger and feature a greater variety of exhibitors than Surfaces 2001.
Sales of existing single-family homes reached a new record in August, but sales are now slowing and likely will be lower than previously expected over the months ahead.
Advanced Flooring Specialists (AFS) will offer training for “color blenders” from October through December at the World Floor Covering Association (WFCA) headquarters in Anaheim, Calif. Color blenders specialize in correcting sidematch problems for carpet mills.
Robbins Sports Surfaces will shift its production exclusively to the manufacture of an engineered maple floor featuring pre-assembled, industrially strengthened wood strips that are a uniform 7-foot length.
The National Association of Purchasing Management recently reported that its monthly manufacturing index rose to 47.9 in August from 43.6 in July, above forecasts of 43.9.
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