Saluda, SC, Oct. 14--Textile maker Milliken and Co. says it will close two plants and cut roughly 240 jobs--a major blow to a textile stalwart that's been in the forefront of trying to protect the ...

Glasgow, Scotland, September 7--The deadly MRSA superbug could soon be wiped out in hospitals by a new weapon – linoleum, according to the Scottish Record & Sunday Mail. Research has found that ...

Troy, MI & Hoffman Estates IL, November 17--Kmart Holding and Sears have signed a definitive merger agreement that will combine Sears and Kmart into a major new retail company named Sears Holdings ...

Chicago, IL, July 15--NeoCon World's Trade Fair attracted more than 41,000 registrants to The Merchandise Mart, June 16-18. "The upbeat, optimistic atmosphere at this year's NeoCon was ...

It was ten years ago this month that the Invironmentalists, the contract dealer network owned by Invista, was dismantled. A decade earlier, in the 1990s, several of the flooring industry’s large ...

Atlanta, GA, Feb. 24--Home Depot launched a new national advertising campaign with a 60 second branding spot during the Grammy Awards on CBS. The theme of the new campaign is, "Home Depot is more ...

Washington, DC, June 19--The U.S. Department of Commerce on Friday imposed preliminary anti-dumping duties ranging to nearly 200 percent on $1.2 billion of wooden bedroom furniture imported from ...

Substrates or subfloors are the surfaces on which floorcovering materials are applied. They can be wood, concrete, plywood, stone or metal. Regardless of the material, there are specific ...

Southlake, TX, Aug. 26--Many household cleaning products leave floors more slippery than they were before cleaning, the National Floor Safety Institute (NFSI) reported this week. NFSI released ...

Brothers Jason, Lance and Austin Calvetta opened their first Calvetta Bros. Floor Show in Bedford Heights, Ohio in 1999. Eighteen years later, with four locations and $16 million in annual revenue ...

When students, staff and visitors enter the Thompson Elementary School, they are greeted by a colorful, open and welcoming space that carries the building’s playful exterior design through to ...

Lewisville, TX, May 13--Up until about four years ago, L.D. Brinkman Corp. was ringing up annual sales of about $400 million as one of the nation's largest suppliers of wood flooring, tile and ...