Announcements

As Of February 2018 the new owners of Aqua Hospitality Carpets has re-branded the products "EF Hospitality:

If your projects install after that date, Tarkett/Johnsonite we understand will have cross-over products.

Most of us in the DC area have long had the privelege of working with Tom Gillingham of CH Briggs as our Corian and Zodiaq rep.  Tom is making a long and eagerly anticipated change that will  have him leaving the sales rep arena.  He is being replaced in our area by…

The new yarns in their products will contain 25% renewable vegetable content. Chilewich can be cleaned with water and bio-degradable detergents.

For the time being both will keep their own identity.

Camira, a natural fiber textile manufacturer, has changed reps again.  The company, most recently being represented by the McLain Group, is now being represented by Barbara Nolan Inc. (main reps being Barbara Nolan and Marie Davis).

Laura Ann Francis, the operator of LPC Associates; has ended operations of here company in order to become a sales rep with PANOLAM.  Laura provided the following informaiton on the interim points of contacts for the companies she had represented

Many designers in the DC community know Ilkim from her work as a librarian with Library Resources for many years.  Ilkim has left Library Resources, and has become a rep for Marble Systems & Country Floors.

By the close of 2016 PPG will divest its entire flat Glass manufacturing and glass coatings operations  to focus more on their paints and coatings division.