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Article: Hardwood trends: wide, distressed, exotic and easy installation.
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- Flooring
- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 Douglas Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Hardwood flooring companies brought an array of new products to Surfaces 2002, with highlights that included locking products, a continued expansion into wide widths, an increase in exotic species and colors and more distressed looks.
The trend in glueless, locking flooring, which started with laminate flooring and accelerated a year ago with half a dozen laminate companies introducing glueless floors, is increasingly moving into the hardwood market. Award Hardwood Floors, for one, last year previewed a glueless engineered product, Touch of Wood, with a surface veneer of hardwood. Award this year added the "Just Click It" locking system to its Longstrip and ...