JOHNSON CITY, TENN.—Mullican Flooring is growing its workforce and adding another production line for solid prefinished hardwood flooring at its headquarters and manufacturing site here. The expansion represents a... more

As I turned the pages of the issue of Floor Covering News devoted to the celebration of Carpet One’s 25th anniversary, I was reminded of our humble beginnings and all the great milestones we achieved along the way. I would like to offer my... more

DALTON—Dalton State College students enrolled in MGNT 4701: Strategic Management and Policy are getting a taste of the flooring industry from the inside. Seniors working toward a bachelor’s degree in business are using... more

CROSSVILLE, TENN.—Crossville has launched what it calls a “revolutionary” tile take-back program, which, the manufacturer says, has solved one of the major environmental problems facing the tile industry today— recycling used tile... more

LAGRANGE, GA.—Travelers will soon notice that InterfaceFLOR leaves a strong footprint, though not an ecological one. Broadening its involvement in the green movement, the company’s carpet tiles have been chosen for several new projects in transportation and hospitality because of their... more

By Matthew Spieler

DALLAS—Regional markets have been picking up steam for a few years now. This was clearly evident in Texas’ largest city, with some of the industry’s largest mills, along with a number of the area’s major distributors, taking up... more

AUSTINTOWN, OHIO—Ryan Carpet Sales & Service recently dropped 50,000 pounds after announcing its commitment to help keep carpet out of the landfill. After saving carpet from dozens of jobs since the summer of ’08, the store recently delivered its first tractor-trailer of... more

ATLANTA—Air Quality Sciences (AQS), a company that focuses on indoor air quality (IAQ) issues, has seen the rise of sustainable building programs and how vast and differed they can be. Because the popularity of green building is not expected to slow, AQS created a white paper evaluating and comparing... more

Good friend Tom Fischel, the industry’s greatest after-dinner speaker and executive with Badische Corp. and later with BASF, stirred up some fond memories with this photo. He sent the picture with the notation that it was taken in the fall of 1981 at the Dalton Country Club during the company’s annual pro-am golf tournament. This photo was taken after a day of golf and before... more

DALTON—Shaw Industries and DAK Americas have formed a joint venture, Clear Path Recycling (CPR), to produce recycled PET (RPET) from post-consumer plastic drinking bottles... more