Trade Show Booth Size Says Less About a Flooring Company’s Actual Strength Than People Assume
Walk any major flooring trade show floor and the largest, most elaborately designed booths inevitably draw the…
India’s Flooring Market Is Growing Fast, But Not in the Way Most Forecasts Assumed
India has shown up in flooring market growth forecasts for years now, generally framed around the country’s…
Container Shipping Costs Stopped Making Headlines, But They Never Actually Went Back to Normal
There was a period when container shipping costs were genuinely headline news, with dramatic price spikes affecting…
Slip Resistance Ratings Sound Objective, But the Testing Methods Behind Them Tell a Different Story
Slip resistance ratings on flooring products carry an appealing simplicity, a number or rating that tells you…
Anti-Dumping Investigations Into Flooring Imports Keep Happening, and the Pattern Is Worth Understanding
Anti-dumping investigations targeting flooring products, particularly certain laminate and engineered wood categories from specific manufacturing origins, have…
Why Vietnam Quietly Became a Bigger Flooring Export Story Than Most People Realize
Flooring industry coverage tends to gravitate toward the largest, most established manufacturing hubs, and for good reason,…
Why a Flooring Product Compliant in One Country Can Still Fail Compliance in the Next
It’s a genuinely common source of frustration for flooring manufacturers and exporters: a product that’s fully compliant…
Private Equity’s Growing Interest in Flooring Manufacturing Comes With a Pattern Worth Watching
Private equity acquisitions of flooring manufacturers have become a regular enough feature of industry news that it’s…
Why Walking a Major Flooring Trade Show Floor Tells You Less Than the Side Conversations Do
Major flooring trade shows get covered primarily through their exhibition floors, new product launches, impressive booth displays,…
Germany’s Flooring Market Has Become a Bellwether for the Rest of Europe, and That’s a Mixed Blessing
Industry analysts covering European flooring markets have increasingly started treating German market data as something close to…