Floor Trends reports on the latest flooring technologies and sustainable initiatives from Domotex in Hannover, Germany. 

Küberit USA will debut its new integrated process for profile selection, sample acquisiiton, and resources for specification support at this week’s TISE. 

In 2023, Performance Accessories further expands this promise by enhancing its stair tread program and emphasizing its waterproof accessories.  

A carefully considered staircase renovation might mean replacing newel posts, handrails, base rails, and spindles, with new parts. Check out top staircase trends for 2023. 

Laticrete, a leading manufacturer of globally proven construction solutions for the building industry, is adding profiles and trim to its growing roster of tile, stone and flooring installation products, making it the industry’s first manufacturer to provide a complete tile installation system including trim options.

The company announced plans to launch an e-commerce platform in the second quarter of 2023. The new site will highlight Versatrim's high-end product offering and will offer improved functionality to streamline the online order-entry process.  

Attendees will be able to expand their knowledge, find solutions and connect with others in the flooring community with Performance Accessories from September 20 to September 22, 2023. 

Versatrim's new Quick Ship program offers seven trim profiles in 60 stock colors ready to ship next business day with no minimums. 

Daniel Koutavas, territory business manager for Fishman Flooring Solutions’ Southeast Region, offers basic guidance for selecting and installing flooring transitions.

From calming neutrals to bright, saturated bolds, the hues serve as the base colors for Distinct Designs Studio Collection rubber flooring and all Flexco wall base. 

The collection is organized into palettes, profiles and sizes that make it easy to achieve a coordinated look across flooring, treads, risers, wall base and more. 

Jack Ulstrom with Artistic Finishes answers a few common questions about profiles, trims and transitions.

The Versaflex collection features seven different flexible molding and trim options, in addition to flooring and stair solutions.

Performance Accessories offers a total system of industry-leading flooring solutions — including trims and transitions, stair solutions, adhesives, underlayments and cleaners — designed to complement and complete any flooring installation. 

Versatrim has expanded its Versaflex collection to include a corner molding profile.

Laticrete’s Ben Lampi offers advice on pairing color and finishes to take a tile installation to the next level. 

Four new profiles come in 114 color options as well as digitally printed designs to match any aesthetic. 

Mannington’s SimpleStairs stair treads offer a seamless look for luxury vinyl flooring installations with treads that exactly match Mannington's AduraMax, AduraRigid, AduraFlex and Realta wood-look floors. 

Beyond its refreshed corporate logo, Bolthouse Fresh Foods is revealing its new consumer brand, Bolthouse Fresh, and packaging for its consumer-facing portfolio of fresh carrots and on-the-go snacking solutions.

The PowerPak 1000 has been specially developed as an entry-level machine for the thermoforming segment and offers advanced functions previously reserved for machines in the higher performance range.

SÜDPACK and industrial printing specialist LEIBINGER have joined forces test the suitability of continuous inkjet (CIJ) inks for printing on recyclable films for packaging food that is sterilized following the packaging process.

The different types of flexible packaging paper cover a range of requirements — from good knurling and heat‐sealing properties with or without a barrier function, to teabag wrapping and flow packs.

In a Multipeel pack, sliced cheese loses less moisture and weight after being opened for the first time, compared to a packaging concept without a reclose system.

Well-designed packaging can provide shelf impact to attract attention and set the product apart from its competition, enhance usability, prevent damage, maximize shelf life and offer sustainable attributes.

UPM Specialty Papers has used coatings from Michelman to develop recyclable paper packaging designed for food applications.

The advantages of choosing refurbished or hybrid conveyors, especially when considering bottle conveyors, are numerous and extend beyond simple cost savings.

Sanders and Morley Candy Makers, which first worked its way into the hearts of those who live in Michigan with factory tours for school kids, is beloved in its home state and is growing nationally.

What Hispanic Cheese Makers is doing with its wastewater and with its sustainability efforts overall makes it a model for producers looking for ways to be sustainable and good neighbors, and it’s why Hispanic Cheese Makers is being featured as a Fabulous Food Plant.

Producing more than 1.4 billion pounds of pork and turkey annually, the Prestage Farms family of companies employs more than 2,700 associates and is affiliated with more than 470 farm families across the U.S.

Conagra Brands’ ‘Green Jay’ and Graeter’s ice cream production facility take diverging paths for production, but both facilities meet the aims of their respective companies.

The JBS Principe facility is FOOD ENGINEERING’s 2024 Plant of the Year for its daring modern take on traditional Italian-style dried meat production.

PBNA tripled its local warehouse footprint with the relocation of its former downtown Nashville distribution warehouse facility.

In a three-step selection process, designers can purchase a motor that is built to order using the company’s online configurator.

The vertical bagger has a compact machine layout for small footprint and good accessibility from all sides.

The mobile post hoists are on a rolling frame that enables one worker to easily move the vacuum conveyor into place above mixers, reactors, tanks and other equipment.

These extra-large, high-capacity conveyors can be engineered for grading, aligning, distributing and other specialized food handling functions.

The system includes cameras, AI software, a conveyor and automatic ejection mechanisms with dual drops (one for foreign material, one for culls) to ensure only ideal potatoes reach later process stages.

Designed for the food and beverage industries, this addition to GDT's FoodSafe product line offers enhanced cleaning efficiency and water flow, catering to the stringent hygiene requirements of food production facilities.

Control Station has launched System Health Monitoring (SHM), a tiered service offering that leverages intelligence captured by the company’s PlantESP Loop Performance Monitoring solution.

With precise, automatic and synchronized control of dough sheet length, conveyor speed and number of laminations, the operator has an efficient and effective process, resulting in consistent, high-quality product.

This program includes a range of modular spiral belts tailored for various applications, including cooling, chilling, freezing, proofing and steaming. 

The ADVANTEC Narrow brings all of the capacity and functionality benefits of the original ADVANTEC Impingement Freeze, but with innovations aimed at reducing its footprint and alleviating the pressures of high cryogenic gas prices on companies.

This device combines a built-in full function controller, both onboard and expandable I/O, and a 4.3” touchscreen display, in a compact all-in-one form factor.

The conveyor’s lanes combine product, making a mixed variety of can or bottle flavors to create a multi-flavor case pack.

The TruStream Drum Port’s fully contained sampling system mitigates external contamination and exposure to air, maintaining product purity and quality.

I’m due to travel from AMS-DOH-SGN on QR this Sunday and have just noticed my Osprey Farpoint 40 is 5cm over the maximum length. All other dimensions are fine and I’ve weighed my bag and it’s within the 7kg weight limit. Will QR measure the bag...

I'm going to start a nomadic life soon. I'll need to carry a lot of stuff with me unless I decide to get a storage unit and pick a home base city. I'm hoping to get down to 2x100L bags or preferably a single 130-160L bag that I don't need to...

A new year and new opportunities are in motion for the industry, after a (sometimes) bumpy but successful 2021.

UV sterilization technology works successfully in water treatment plants and HVAC systems, but milk and juices too?

It’s no surprise that alternative meat products are popping up everywhere these days. In fact, they have grown so much that Ernst & Young data predicts alternative meat could see 40% market share by volume by 2040 in the United States.