Georgia 9th District Congressman Tom Graves will be the featured speaker at the Carpet and Rug Institute's Annual Business Meeting scheduled for Wednesday, November 9, 2011, from 10 until 11:30 am in the Lecture Hall of... more

Dalton, Georgia, Sept. 29, 2011 - The Carpet and Rug Institute (CRI) is taking a key role in the Product Management Alliance, an inter-industry partnership designed to promote market-based solutions for extended producer responsibility. A September 27, 2011 press release states that the group's mission is to "support voluntary market-based extended producer responsibility efforts and... more

CHICAGO, IL –The North American Association of Floor Covering Distributors (NAFCD) will offer two additional sessions exclusively for NAFCD members at the 2011 Distributor Marketplace, focusing on current floor covering industry issues and... more

CHICAGO – The North American Association of Floor Covering Distributors (NAFCD) is calling on its members to submit nominations for the 2011 NAFCD Leadership in Action Award and Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as... more

Dalton, Georgia, August 18, 2011 - John Wells, president of Interface Americas and chairman of the board of directors of the Carpet and Rug Institute (CRI) has announced board approval for a new organizational structure for CRI, the carpet industry's primary trade association. CRI represents... more

CHICAGO, IL – The North American Association of Floor Covering Distributors (NAFCD) is offering a new identity theft protection service to its member companies through LifeLock. This service makes it easy for members to protect employees from the devastating effects of identity theft, an increasingly... more

CHICAGO, IL – The North American Association of Floor Covering Distributors (NAFCD) has selected market research firm Kadence International to conduct an upcoming member needs survey... more

By Dean Thompson, President, Resilient Floor Covering Institute

The Resilient Floor Covering Institute has started the process of developing environmental product declarations (EPDs) for the North American resilient flooring industry. An EPD is a brief, third-party-verified report of product ingredients and their... more

PHOENIX—The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has introduced its latest green building rating system, LEED for Healthcare. The rating system guides the design and construction of new buildings and major renovations of existing ones, and can be applied to... more

NEW ORLEANS—Jim Walters has been elected the new chairman of the World Floor Covering Association (WFCA) effective July 1. The vote took place during the organization’s spring board meeting here. Walters, president of Macco’s Floor Covering in Green Bay, Wis., will take over... more