FloorDaily.net News & Interviews (October 20, 2016)
October 20, 2016-Willem Biesheuvel, CEO with Sencorables, and Kemp Harr discuss Sencorables' underfloor sensing technology developed in conjunction with Microsoft that enables building owners to monitor the footsteps within their buildings. Listen to the interview, recorded at FloorTek in Dalton, to hear just a few of the countless applications where this technology could prove resourceful in retail, healthcare or simple office environments. Listen at FloorDaily.net
Willemstad, Curaçao, October 20, 2016-Innovations4Flooring (I4F), a technology company providing flooring installation solutions, has announced a historic court case win against Unilin Beheer B.V. to nullify the Dutch part of Unilin's base pretension patent EP 1026341 (EP'341). Read at FloorDaily.net
Washington, DC, October 20, 2016-Total existing-home sales hiked 3.2% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.47 million in September from a downwardly revised 5.30 million in August, according to the National Association of Realtors. Read at FloorDaily.net
Washington, DC, October 20, 2016-The National Association of Home Builders' (NAHB) Remodeling Market Index (RMI) posted a reading of 57 in the third quarter of 2016, an increase of four points from the previous quarter and also a return to levels seen consistently throughout 2015. Read at FloorDaily.net
Bertrange, Luxembourg, October 20, 2016-Russian police raided Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Novosibirsk warehouses of Russian distributors Profpostavka and Opt-trading, which import and sell laminate flooring products under brands including Westerhof and Mario Loretto, finding products that infringe Unilin's Russian clic technology patents. Read at FloorDaily.net
Dalton, GA, October 20, 2016-When Engineered Floors completes the expansion of a plant to two million square feet, it will have the second largest building in Georgia, reports the Times Free Press, and the world's largest carpet plant. Read at FloorDaily.net
Seattle, WA, October 20, 2016-According to official statistics, the U.S. timber harvests were practically the same in 2015 as in 2011, coming in at 355 million m3, but analysis by Wood Resources International based on derived log consumption by the forest industry in the U.S. and net log trade, indicates that the actual removals of industrial roundwood were closer to 411 million m3 in 2015, and 10% higher than in 2011. Read at FloorDaily.net
Los Angeles, CA, October 20, 2016-The Rug Market America announces the debut of its new Custom Rug Program that enables customers to create one-of-a-kind rugs through personal selections of color, design, size and construction without minimums. Read at FloorDaily.net Click here to read all the latest floorcovering news... |
