EDITOR’S NOTE Hello and welcome to our annual Resilient Flooring Focus.


It has been a tough 12 months for the commercial flooring sector as the pandemic put a temporary halt to contract work at the beginning of the first lockdown and restrictions on retail, hospitality and leisure put new fit-outs to the bottom of the list of priorities.


However, as AMA Research discuss in the indepth market report on page 4, the resilient flooring subsector has proven robust in the market despite the significant impact of Covid-19 – falling by just 4% compared to the flooring sector as a whole which saw a 10% decline. This is potentially down to the surging popularity of luxury vinyl tile as design innovations mean that the product is able to more realistically replicate natiural materials while offering a wealth of safety, hygiene and acoustic properties.


In this annual supplement, you’ll find technical advice to help you achieve the best installations everytime, spectacular case studies and design inspiration as well as some of the latest launches from across the flooring industry.


I hope you enjoy the issue.


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MARKET INSIGHT AMA Research presents


findings from their latest floorcoverings reports on the market developments and future predictions for the resilient flooring market.


TECHNICAL ADVICE


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A FLAWLESS FINISH Neil Sanders, Technical Director


at F. Ball and Co. Ltd. provides an expert guide to installing luxury vinyl tile.


THE VINYL FIT The experts at Tilemaster


Adhesives talk us through how to achieve successful subfloor preparation and adhesive specification for LVT and sheet vinyl.


CASE STUDIES


SPORTING SUCCESS Polyflor’s Palettone helps provide


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sports lovers with a vibrant workplace designed for both work and play.


QUALITY AS STANDARD When specifying flooring to use


across all of its new schemes, a top Welsh social housing provider turned to Altro.


PRODUCT FOCUS


THE ACOUSTIC COLLECTION


Forbo Flooring Systems brights together its well-established Sarlon acoustic vinyl range and Modul’up adhesive-free solutions to provide a new acoustic flooring offering.


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THE POWER OF NATURE Tarkett introduces the new ultra-


realistic modular vinyl collection, iD Inspiration which captures the beauty of wood and stone with the most subtle details in grain, texture and colour.


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