Waltham, MA, October 25-- Back in 1974, when Ron Sickels started working at Waltham's Jordan's Furniture, Barry and Eliot Tatelman had not made a single TV commercial, according to the MetroWest ...

Thomas R. Durkan, the founder of Durkan Patterned Carpets who was credited with creating a lucrative niche market for upscale printed carpet in the commercial carpet industry, died at his Dalton ...

Trelleborg, Sweden, July 23—Pergo reported its results for the first six months of 2004. Sales during the period were SEK 1,417 M ($187.9M) (1,344), an increase of 13% compared with the year ...

New York, NY, May 12--According to a report from Reuters a rapid surge in oil prices has pulled the rug out from under the U.S. carpet industry. The price of oil, a key component in modern carpet ...

Washington, DC, Oct. 13--Cork has gone way beyond bulletin boards and bottle stoppers. Long appreciated for durability and resilience and widely used on floors and small household items, the ...

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 ...

Chatsworth, GA, Sept. 8--Mohawk Industries Inc. prides itself on community relations, but the carpet giant is facing bad publicity in a small town where a close-knit family and the police ...

Washington, DC, Oct. 1--Federal regulators have safely shipped a large amount of radioactive material to South Carolina from a defunct floor-manufacturing plant in central Pennsylvania, officials ...

Lancaster, PA, Aug. 5--A consolidation of the top offices at Armstrong World Industries Inc. has left its number two man, Chan W. Galbato, the odd man out, according to the Lancaster New Era.

Orlando, FL, Nov. 26--During 20 years in business for himself, Orlando tradesman Bill Miller has earned a decent living, mostly by doing repairs and other small drywall work, the kind of jobs that ...

Greensboro, NC, Mar. 3-- Unifi is closing two plants, cutting back at another and eliminating nearly 400 jobs, or about 10 percent of its work force, to cut costs in response to the slump in the ...

Greensboro, NC, Mar. 18--Wilbur Ross made it official yesterday that he has merged Burlington Industries Inc. and Cone Mills Corp. to form what he believes will be a competitive global textile ...