From: BUILDER 2012
Posted on: January 30, 2012 3:53:00 PM

SURFACES 2012 Products: Day 3

By:: Nigel F. Maynard

Launch Slideshow

SURFACES Day 3

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Courtesy WD Flooring

Dark and consistent, this select walnut flooring offers a distinctive, upscale look. To minimize the sapwood variations, the company steams its walnut to create a more uniform and rich floor. The solid wood boards measure about 36 inches long. www.wdflooring.com.
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Courtesy Greenwood Products Co.

Products in the Resin Infused Hardwood Collection are made from scraps of 100% post -industrial recycled hardwood scraps from the furniture and pulp-wood industries. The recycled hardwood pieces are layered, infused with VOC-free resins, and cold pressed into planks. www.greenwoodflooring.com.
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Courtesy AMB Bois

Pave de Paris is an end-grain hardwood flooring imported from France. The pre-finished product can be laid with no nails or glue and instead uses a floating compression system. It comes in rubberwood, French oak, guatambu, iroko, smoked oak, and ashy oak. www.ambbois.com.
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Similar in hardness to ipe, olive wood is the new flooring product that soon will be introduced to the U.S market. Wood is harvested in a manner that does not harm the 300-year-old trees and is used to make engineered wood flooring measuring 3-, 4-, and 5-inches wide with a 6-millimeter-thick top layer. Various colored finishes are available. tuscanyolivewood.com.
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Courtesy Brenco LLC

Harvested from Africa and manufactured in Portugal, this wenge solid wood flooring is one of many authentic African species that the company offers. Products are available in engineered and solid planks and in such species as iroko, bubinga, sapele, and celtis, among many others. www.brencollc.com.

Surfaces, the annual trade show for the flooring industry, is the place to see new introductions in carpeting, cork, and laminate flooring. But the show’s real strength is in the motley collection of wood flooring products.

Held simultaneously with StonExpo/Marmomacc, the largest international stone show in the U.S., Surfaces reportedly listed more than 120 exhibitors selling hardwood flooring—making it one of the more popular categories at the show.

Here are five more wood floors that caught our eyes at the show.

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