Orange, TX, August 27--Fifteen jobs were cut this week at Invista Sabine River Works west of Orange as the plant goes through restructuring, according to the Orange Leader. A written statement ...

Modern, industrial, hi-tech—these words might bring to mind Mies van der Rohe, Joseph D’Urso or Karim Rashid. But I’m talking about flooring material. Woven vinyl, to be specific.

Software for flooring dealers and distributors has come a long way from the accounting programs developed in the ’80s. Today’s software offerings are fine-tuned instruments of commerce ...

The hotel industry has been in the midst of transformation for a couple of decades, shifting from a market dominated by big hotel chain brands to increased competition from boutique hotels, then ...

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 ...

Kansas City, MO, July 30--Sutherlands Lumber and Home Improvement its last store it operated in the Omaha area by the Kansas City based home improvement retailer, according to the Omaha World-Herald.

Los Angeles, August 6--Platinum Equity has completed the acquisition of DyStar, a provider of dyes and services to the fashion and textile industry. Previously, the company was owned jointly by ...

Self described as an architect who got into the flooring business, Don Finkell, CEO of American OEM, has spent more than 30 years in the hardwood flooring industry. He spent many of those years as ...

Helsinki, Finland, June 15--Dynea and Shaw have signed a letter of intent for Shaw to acquire all of the assets of Dynea’s Welcome, North Carolina paper overlays plant for an undisclosed cash ...

Calhoun, GA, March 1--Mohawk Industries, Inc., agreed to purchase one plant located in Roanoke, Alabama, that produces secondary carpet backing from Propex Fabrics Inc. The new plant employs ...

John Wells, president of Interface Americas since 1999, grew up the youngest of four children to a small town family doctor and his wife in Dalton, Geogia. He diverged from his siblings’ path ...

Manchester, NH, January 12--Alan Greenberg, co-CEO of CCA Global Partners, announced today that Flooring Canada, formerly a master franchise of Flooring America, would now become a fully ...