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Flooring, China is making it's move

How is china affecting the flooring business?

In recent years We have had many hard surface products show up in our market that were produced in China. We have seen this do mainly good things and embrace it in our industry. We find ourselves now able to offer wood and laminate flooring of fine quality at very affordable prices to the consumer. Also has been the skyrocketing popularity of bamboo floors which have many brands produced in China. This has driven down the pricing of both wood and laminate flooring and not caused a deterioration in quality IF you know how to determine quality. We see this trend continuing and the Chinese made hard surface products category  continuing to grow.

But we are now asking the question is china going to hurt the multi billion dollar carpet industry in the US? It is our opinion that currently because there is no real domestic market for carpet of any size in china, that it will take several years before we need have any worry about that. Most of what is produced there is olefin and of lower quality and the US market has a high demand for upper level carpets focused on design and styling as well as high quality.

We feel this will be a factor one day, but not for several years. For now we are focused on the great things china is doing for the US wood flooring, laminate flooring, and bamboo sectors of our industry.

Jan 2007

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