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CFJ AWARDS 2025

Flooring in hotels

Hygienic flooring solution developed especially for Tofu King’s new manufacturing plant

‘A reliable base for a lasting education floor’

Snickers Workwear produces protective wear collection

Building a future for skills

Training Plans – It’s time to embrace the rise in LVT flooring by unlocking the full potential on investing in staff training

PALLMANN now stocked in the UK

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F Ball & Co launches F58 PLUS ‘No time to wait’ LVT adhesive

floorwise expands curvable PVC floor trim range

Speedy installation at Greenhead College

IDS managing director John Bagshaw retires after 40 years of service

Louis de Poortere launches the Runners Box

Kelmore Wins National Manufacturing Start-Up of the Year at Made in the UK Awards 2025

Taraflex® triumph for Gerflor at Pencoedtre High School, Wales

ProKnee stresses its commitment to sustainability with kneepad models

Kelmore expands flooring team with northern area sales manager

Parkside ‘improves your tile specification experience’ with new website

Evil under the sun

Menopause at work – are women legally protected?

‘Sustainability and innovation is driving change in LVT’ says Shaw Contract

LTP launches new ECOPROTEC sealer for hard landscaping

Training: It’s a lifetime thing

How to get properly fitted for ProKnee 0714 custom-fit kneepads

The march away from ‘solvents’

Abingdon Flooring | ‘Fusion of style, performance’

Louis De Poortere takes another step to circularity with Ecorugs 2026

Multi-Hire stock a wide range of hand floor-scrapers at low prices

Visitors and staff at Sutton Civic Centre ‘wowed by stunning install’

BerryAlloc launches refreshed laminate collection

Karndean Designflooring interiors have a reduced impact on the environment

A whole new ball game

Why an end-user wasn’t too happy with his flooring installation

Tilemaster Adhesives says it offers a full range of professional adhesives

How long will my diamond tooling last?

A curate’s egg?

An Outlook on Social Housing

Fast and Clean Luxury Vinyl Installs with Flex Pro Pure

Work shorts ‘for cooling comfort this summer’

Asia-Pacific’s premier flooring industry event is back

Mapei ‘delivers surface solution’ at The Cocoa Works

John Lord Flooring takes on two new apprentices

Heywood’s extensive expertise in quality engineered and solid wood flooring

Chaunceys celebrates completion of new showroom

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Reducing downtime in retail entrance matting refurbishment

Interface launches Embodied Beauty in UK

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New rules for witness evidence in business and property courts

Altro raises the bar on sustainability disclosure

Carpet solutions which offer ‘endless workplace design solutions’

Pioneering Change: UKSFA’s vision for a sustainable tomorrow

Oval cricket ground recently underwent a major extension, Bostik provides subfloor preparation products

Studio Moods wins at SBID International Design Awards

Simply Smooth POS rolls out across the UK

Beauflor ‘brings the bold and beautiful’ at FFD

Imperfection proves perfect for Oktra’s office

Invictus: Revolutionizing home flooring with premium carpets and luxury vinyl tiles

What’s key when installing LVT?

Condor Group and Tide Ocean join up to collect and recycle ocean-bound plastic waste

‘Fast-track smoothing compounds for care settings’

Starling – A bird in the hand?

The benefits of bamboo compared to wood flooring

Why is polyurethane screed flooring important for the food sector?

BAL and ARDEX achieve gold standard for carbon reduction

Mapei offers cleaning and maintenance products

modulyss ‘makes its marks in sands of sustainability’

CFA Annual General Meeting – Keynote Speaker announced

‘A Superhero installation from ADP’

TVS RESi Dry & Concrete Floating Floor Systems

Is your business too BIG or too small to join the CFA?

Gypsol Anhydrite Screed has environmental, sustainability and health and safety benefits

DPM and acoustic underlay systems meet brief for The Octagon

New acoustic format ‘brings quiet confidence to shared residential spaces’

Be warned: Inhaling wood dust can get you into a serious scrape

The green benefits of collaboration

ALE Heavylift and Carpet & Flooring

‘Capture the look of aged parquet’with Les Iconics

The Role of a Surface DPM in Moisture Control

Heckmondwike on social media

Flowcrete’s ‘complete car park deck solution’

Moving and maintaining your flooring machinery

Don’t let safety slip

Anglo Recycling represents low tech, low energy underlays

Kemtile paves the way for sustainable vertical farming with high-performance flooring solution

DOMOTEX asia/CHINAFLOOR 2023 Post Show Review

ProKnee introduces ‘new innovative strap design’

SampleWorx to join ADP Distribution superhero team

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Floorwise appoints new product manager

Granorte ‘meeting demand for sustainability and style’

An international affair

Does LVT flooring work with underfloor heating?

Forbo creates ‘stylish and sustainable’ office space

Volunteers chalk up 90 miles along Hadrian’s Wall to raise cash for construction charity

Accessing training courses in LVT

Why temperature onsite is so important

Shaw Contract’s ‘In Stock UK Programme’ has huge demand

‘Give rooms a stylish uplift’ with LeoLine’s Novus

La boutique du parquet showcases unique and innovative parquet designs

Trelawny’s grinding options offer efficient and durable single and twin-head machines

LION Floor exhibits at FloorSkills open day

Calwyn DeCoster continues Mapei journey in new specification role

Workspace Design Show returns in November

EXCLUSIVE: Manufacturer & Distributor of the Year finalists revealed for CFJ Awards

Protect yourself and your customers from DCMin spray adhesives

Building safety questions now mandatory in newversion of common assessment standard

F Ball and Co products facilitate remarkable transformation of Treggudick Manor into english spirit distillery

Kerakoll’s UFH systems ensure fast, reliable installations with advanced smoothing and adhesive solutions

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Installation 101: made for modular

Visitor registration platform for DOMOTEX asia/CHINAFLOOR 2023 is now open

Nelson Place enhances its Student Facilities with comprehensive high-performance flooring solutions from Gerflor

Chemique Adhesives: an introduction to artificial turf adhesives

Greening Skills and Sustainability

New entrance mats ‘fit well with any main floor’

IDS celebrates one year without lost time accidents

‘Painted perfection’ with Timberline

Gerflor Evercare surface treatment

F Ball and Co celebrates innovation at The Flooring Show

F Ball and Co chosen for Cairo hospital installation

REGUPOL moisture vapour suppressant barrier ‘dries in 30 minutes’

CLC: Unprecedented demand set to stay ‘for the foreseeable future’

10th anniversary for Moduleo in the UK

National Homebuilding & Renovating Show invites trades to get ahead in hours with free access to hundreds of building, construction and systems suppliers, experts...

In with the new

ADP service for Victoria Carpets

UltraFloor ‘creates a truly sustainable future’

Why skipping subfloor preparation is costing you more than you think

F Ball adhesives and compounds: Reliable solutions for flooring installations in residential developments

Abacus Flooring Solutions

BerryAlloc at The Flooring Show (Stand B27 / B57)

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‘High-level sophistication’ at Sanlam Wealthsmiths

Flooring blossoms in Portsmouth retail space

Kemtile delivers durable, hygienic flooring and drainage solution

Adhesive-free floors support new hospital programme approach

Master Installers ‘benefit from masterful marketing’

New Tessera Harmony range completes Forbo’s Tessera Union collection

Industry perspectives on how working practices could develop in the future

Ted Todd launch six new extra wide, extra thick floors

The benefits of F Ball’s rewards programme

‘Reward yourself’ with floorwise

Flooring meets AI: The next step in product visualisation

Get The Perfect Fix with floorwise

An easy to install alternative for BS 8203 complaint plywood

Havwoods says it was thrilled to be part of the Clerkenwell

Junckers were used for US company Slack’s new HQ

Stellar Event Carpets launches at HRC 2023

A Christmas gift – success in saving apprenticeship delivery in Scotland

Time-saving innovation revitalises children’s ward floors at Derbyshire hospital with F Ball

FESTOOL presents its new CSC SYS 50 cordless table saw

Construction crisis: one in five construction employees have suffered from bullying in the workplace

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Granorte’s Natural way to welcome in cork

EGGER Group celebrates start of construction of €200m investmentproject at Markt Bibart plant in Germany

Is your LVT floor dementia friendly?

Corporate crime law: it’s time to take note

The Flooring Show to celebrate 60th birthday at Harrogate Convention Centre in September

IVC: Enrich experiences with dynamic textures

Harvey Maria talks flooring trends for 2022

Bureau Veritas welcomes amendment to Part B and encourages firms to take heed of new combustible cladding laws

Collectively cultivating a brighter future

Brand ID reflected at Aberdeen Offices

FAQs – Distributors

Job applicants with criminal records?

Designing safety into surface preparation

The Colour Flooring Company to showcase Corka Format at SDS

Residential – Marlowe house – Stair nosings and entrance matting

North London church brought to new life by DCTUK fitters

Excitement builds as tickets sell like hotcakes for CFJ Awards

Be wary of wayward installations in winter weather

F Ball focuses on adhesives at Harrogate

TTA technical committee chair receives MBE in New Year’s Honours

SWFC: Sustainability is in our DNA

Artisan Luxury Flooring: Where customers become part of the family

CFA become Event Sponsor of Clerkenwell Design Week and The Flooring Section

Välinge shakes up the wood flooring market and commits to investment

LVT training school

Kerakoll | The natural choice

Why it pays to know when a location needs safety flooring – and when it may not

‘It’s not all a bed of roses’

EGGER: Time for more trees please

SDS ‘back in business’ at Business Design Centre in London

A third of all tool theft is from vehicles, new police data reveals

LTP ECOPROTEC range now available in the UAE

TVS Group multi-million pound refurbishment project at Hotel and Spa Resort

Top tips for installing LVTflooring in colder months

‘SampleWorx creates super swatches for Rhinofloor Evolution’

‘Quick-Step impresses at Harrogate’

Rawson Carpet Solutions has released new primary entrance solution

Gower College Swansea launches new floorcovering apprenticeship to address skills shortage in the industry

CFA responds to landmark government consultationon payments and retention

A diamond career in flooring

Scotland Networking Lunch and Golf Competition

Flowcrete has now launched what it says is the latest in liquid screed technology

MAPEI preparation products used to complete an Altro floor installation at a new community venue

Abingdon Flooring celebratesnew styles and colour updates with limited offer on lecterns

First Expo proves to be a big success

CEMFLOOR is described as a high-performance cement-based, free-flowing, self-compacting liquid screed

F Ball and Co helps create therapy room for Jack

ULTRAFLOOR Level IT Hydra Bond is described as a ground-breaking, water-based floor leveller

Twisting Again!

Shaw Contract introduces Nordic LVT collection to its In Stock UK programme

IVC Group ‘proves its best for the trade at Flanders Flooring Days’

BAL Adhesives: Building tomorrow with the ARDEX Group

Taking the risk out of adhesives

Tile Giant offers a range of tiling and flooring to suit all budgets

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