McAdenville, NC, July 6--Pharr Yarns, LLC will build a new state-of-the-art fiber extrusion plant adjacent to its Complex 46 facility in McAdenville, North Carolina. This new manufacturing plant will ...

The retail sector has been an evolving terrain for several years. 2025 was no exception, and 2026 is expected to bring additional alterations to the landscape. Amid these major transitions-which ...

South Pittsburg, TN, Jun. 14--Shaw Industries Inc. will cut 390 jobs in South Pittsburg when it closes its plant in August, the carpetmaker's executive vice president said. Julius Shaw said the ...

West Point, GA, June 2--WestPoint Stevens Inc. filed for protection from its creditors in federal bankruptcy court, joining the raft of textile makers forced to restructure because of overseas ...

Dalton, GA, May 25--After more than 38 million square yards and approximately one billion dollars in retail sales, Anything Goes! turns 25. Shaw Industries’ ShawMark Floors division has announced ...

Dalton, GA March 111--The Carpet and Rug Institute (CRI) has launched its new website as part of the trade association's new, enhanced identity, in an on-going effort to make CRI an even more valuable ...

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 ...

Washington, DC, Jan. 13--The North American Laminate Flooring Association (NALFA) recently announced that its newly revised and upgraded LF-01-2003 standard for laminate flooring has been approved by ...

Elkins, NC, Aug. 6--Darrell Poindexter was carrying an armful of plumbing supplies and shopping for more in a new Lowe's store in his rural hometown. The selection wasn't huge in this store, a ...

Ludwigshafen, Germany, March 24--BASF is planning to phase out nylon (nylon 6) polymers production at it Enka, N.C. site by 2007 and consolidate production of these materials at its site in Freeport, ...

Piet Dossche, founder and CEO of US Floors, didn’t hail from a business environment. His father was a judge in his home country of Belgium, so he grew up in an academic household. He was an ambitious ...

The first carpet tile was made 50 years ago by a small Dutch company called Heuga. That first tile, a bitumen-backed, ten inch square needlefelt product called Felt, was a far cry from the stylish ...