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Georgina Sikorski, Executive Director of the Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) has informed the CARE board of directors she will resign her post shortly after the group's Annual Meeting in April.

Building-materials suppliers battered by a six-year slump in U.S. new-home construction are rallying as investors bet that the worst is over.

Välinge has terminated its license agreements on glueless mechanical locking system with the Chinese laminate producers Jiangsu Better Decorative Materials Co., Ltd. and Changzhou Haokai Decorative Materials Co., Ltd.

W.F. Taylor has published an Executive Summary on Isocyanates in Urethane Flooring Adhesives, in response to an action plan last April from the U.S. EPA regarding Methylene Diphenyl Dissocyanate (MDI) and Related Compounds.

Click here for a four-minute interview with FCICA Chairman Gerry Swift, conducted by Floor Covering Installer Editor Michael Chmielecki.

Home Legend, a leading supplier of hardwood, bamboo, laminate, cork and luxury vinyl flooring, was one of six national flooring manufacturers who participated in a first-ever recycling effort following the January 2012 Surfaces/StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas in Las Vegas.

Shaw Contract Group opened a showroom in Mexico City on March 1, providing its customers with greater access to Cradle to Cradle certified flooring products and services. 

CoverQUIK Tile has announced that Mark Haaland is the firm's new National Sales Manager.

Formica Flooring announces the launch of a 2012 social media campaign, which includes a blog (appropriately named FormicaFloorum) on formicaflooring.com and an enhanced presence on Facebook, Twitter, Pintrest, YouTube and Google+.

Pictured is Jeanne Matson, president and CEO of Starnet Worldwide Commercial Flooring Partnership, with Gerry Swift, FCICA chairman, at the Flooring Contractor's Association's 30th anniversary convention in Savannah, Ga., earlier this week.