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With more flooring companies challenging themselves to expand their sustainability efforts and processes, Floor Trends spoke with designer David Oakey and trend analyst Cindi Marshall Oakey on the future of green and how it ties into a product’s design.

Karastan is introducing collections and rugs in warm, soft, naturally renewable New Zealand wool and silky wool/viscose blends for the winter markets.

Milliken has integrated an average of 8% to 10% additional recycled content in all standard modular carpets in the Americas, according to the company.

Roger De Clerck, founder of Beaulieu, has passed away at the age of 91.

The first residential carpet innovation of its kind, LifeGuard™ is a revolutionary protection system that covers the entire product, from face fiber to backing.

Fall is nearing its end and winter is approaching, that time of year when the biggest flooring shows and markets get ready to showcase aisles upon aisles of manufacturers eager to unveil their latest products and get the 2016 selling season under way.

Alex Markarian grew up in the family business, watching his grandfather, dad and uncle grow the company they launched in the ‘70s into a chain of Carpeteria stores—now Carpeteria Carpet One Floor & Home—in the San Diego area.

Support from Carpet Recycling U.K.’s (CRUK) core funders has been crucial in the industry’s achievement of diverting rising volumes of waste carpet from landfill within the last decade, according to the organization.