Floor & Decor Continues to Expand, On Its Way to 500 Locations
The building supply retail chain has opened its first store in the Pittsburgh market, one of 20 new locations planned for this year. The rapidly growing specialty retailer of hard surface flooring and related accessories for homeowners and professionals has opened in the southern Pittsburgh suburb of Bethel Park. At the start of the year, […]
Wood Waste Isn’t Waste Anymore with New Building Technology
A group of researchers have created a potential alternative for structural flooring material using wood waste and bioplastics. Wood waste won’t be wasted anymore if a new technology developed by researchers comes to fruition. SHoP Architects working with the Department of Energy and the University of Maine have created a structural floor material that is […]
Who Wins Now that LL Flooring Has Lost?
With the big retailing flooring chain liquidating, several competing retailers stand to pick up its $900 million in annual revenues. The news that LL Flooring, the 400-store specialty chain already in bankruptcy, would be shutting down completely and liquidating was not totally unexpected: the company had said if it couldn’t arrange for a new owner […]
Hymmen to Feature Digital Lacquer Embossing Presentation at IWF
A live talk by flooring expert Sebastian Bazyk on Digital Lacquer Embossing (DLEplus) for SPC flooring highlights Hymmen’s IWF presentations. Hymmen, the technology provider for flooring, other high-end surfaces and engineered wood, is presenting a special educational conference session at this summer’s International Woodworking Fair in Atlanta on the role digital printing will play in […]
Video: How Elmwood Timber Customizes Floors on Compact All-in-One System
Since the most recent IWF trade show in 2018, two flooring companies—Elmwood Reclaimed Timber (video above) and Excelsior Wood Products (described below)—have installed a Cefla CFS, a compact, all-in-one flooring system that incorporates sanding (up to four sides), coating, wiping and curing. Elmwood Reclaimed Timber specializes in converting barn boards and other wood retired from […]
CFL Flooring Adds Hymmen Digital Printing Line
Calhoun, GA—CFL Flooring acquired a Hymmen Jupiter JPT-C print-to-board digital printing line for its U.S. facility. This move is part of CFL’s longer-term digital printing strategy under which its next-generation rigid core products will be produced digitally. As part of the installation, CFL also signed a digital printing technologies agreement with i4F, which manages Hymmen’s […]
Maxwell Flooring Fined for Injury at Unguarded Blade
Monticello, AR—The Department of Labor proposed Maxwell Hardwood Flooring be fined $204,797 after a knot saw operator lost part of his index finger when his hand came in contact with an unguarded rotating blade. That incident and five others, including a June 2021 laceration of a co-worker’s palm on a similar saw, led to an […]
Lumber Liquidators, Now LL Flooring, Underwrites Industry Apprenticeships
Richmond, VA—LL Flooring, formerly Lumber Liquidators, (NYSE:LL), will partner with the National Flooring Contractors Apprenticeship Program. With 420 stores, LL Flooring is the largest U.S. dealer of wood and hard surface flooring. With scores of wood flooring installation contractors in its network, LL Flooring is the first national retailer to partner with the flooring apprenticeship […]
Digital Print Engineered Floors Weather Well at Outdoor Venues
Portsmouth, NH—Groove Surfaces, LLC has developed a digitally imaged engineered wood flooring that is designed for semi-permanent use at outdoor venues. Groove Semi-Permanent/Outdoor Flooring is fabricated from a plywood base on which images, texture, and wear layers are laminated. Groove flooring is distributed by Palmer Snyder, a furniture manufacturer and supplier specializing in education and […]
Virtual Tour of Egger TFL Particleboard Plant, Its First in U.S.
LEXINGTON, NC—Egger Wood Products now offers a virtual tour of its new $700 million manufacturing plant in Lexington, NC—its first North American production facility. The online plant tour shows behind-the-scenes views of the raw particleboard and thermally fused laminate (TFL) production processes at the state-of-the-art plant. With 20 production plants worldwide, Egger Wood Products LLC […]