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Canadian imports and consumption of ceramic tiles decreased to 41 million sq.m in 2018. Read More

While carpet and hardwood are suffering a decrease of their market share, the US floor covering market experiences the strong advance of LVT. Read More

US tile consumption grew just 1.2% in 2018 to about 288 million sq.m. Domestic sales of US tile dropped to 84 million sq.m, while imports rose to 205 million sq.m (+5%), mainly from China, Spain and Brazil. Read More

After five consecutive years of record earnings, the US flooring giant Mohawk Industries encountered greater difficulties than anticipated in 2018, with inflation increasing dramatically, luxury vinyl tile impacting ceramic tile and other flooring products and most markets slowing. Read More

Ceramics of Spain Releases its Sector Forecast March 8, 2019 from Floor Trends Magazine ASCER, the Spanish Association of Ceramic Wall and Floor… Read More

The US Market and what to expect in 2019 From Ceramic World Web – January 15, 2019  by  Joseph Lundgren Consulting  With the US market being one of the… Read More

After five years of uninterrupted growth, the Italian ceramic tile industry experienced a downturn in 2018 with production, sales and exports all seeing falls of between 2% and 3%. Read More

Q4 floor covering dollar sales up by 5.3 percent Wednesday, January 02, 2019 from Floor Covering Weekly [Delray Beach, Fla.] Catalina Research has released the… Read More

Tile is a sector in which aesthetic is as important as function. Hard surface sales continue to climb. During the third quarter of 2018, hard surface flooring may have accounted for 56.6 percent of total dollar sales — a 7.5 percent increase from 2017, according to Catalina. Read More

Ceramic tiles have quickly become one of the most popular types of materials used in building and construction activities.Ceramic tiles are made of sand, natural products, or clays. Read More