Anna McCortney, operations manager, and Sam Robinson, sales and showroom coordinator with Ultimate Flooring in Akron, Ohio, represent the next generation of flooring professionals and are finding creative ways to fund their education journey, including a Shark Tank style fundraising video to get them to TISE 2025. They share their experiences as first timers to TISE and Coverings and their efforts to attract and retain young people into the flooring industry as well as their own flooring journeys.
The International Surface Event (TISE) National Installer of the Year Competition offers flooring installers the opportunity to showcase their talent on a world stage in Las Vegas in January 2026.
The first of four TISE Regional Competitions took place on July 19, 2025, at WJ Grosvenor, a Division of L. Fishman & Son, Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts.
Performance Accessories' VP discusses how American-made flooring products provide cost stability and perfect color matching while helping retailers avoid tariff-driven price increases on imported goods.
The National Institute of Certified Flooring Inspectors (NICFI) is spearheading an effort to unite all flooring inspection schools under common educational standards, driven by growing concerns about inadequately trained inspectors entering the field.
Q.E.P.'s new Roberts adhesives manufacturing facility in Dalton, Georgia represents the firm's largest investment in 15 years, strategically positioning the company for better East coast distribution.
The Ballin Knows Best (BKB) new AI assistant features Russo Trading Company's (RTC) complete product catalog and delivers quick responses to customer inquiries, solving the problem of unanswered questions that typically come through social media channels.
Despite numerous opportunities for product and installation education through multiple channels, flooring professionals continue to make costly adhesive application mistakes by failing to research how evolving chemical formulations impact their specific projects and bottom line. Here, installation educators explain how they and the product manufacturers they represent are working to help prevent failures on the front end.
Basic flooring installation program instructors from various community and technical colleges gathered at the Certified Flooring Installers (CFI) headquarters in Dalton, Georgia, for the first-ever Floor Covering Education Foundation (FCEF) instructor training, taking place June 9 to 13.
AI expert Maksim Nazarchuk addresses flooring dealers’ biggest AI concerns, explaining how the technology processes data while protecting privacy and why clear communication is key to successful implementation.
