What’s different about No Bother Sisal carpets? On the top, it’s the same as Alternative’s other sisal carpets. But underneath, the backing, it's not latex - so these sisals can be traditionally fitted. Ideal as bedroom carpet, lounge carpet or fitted on stairs. The two designs are Sisal Boucle and Sisal Super Boucle in a total of eight natural shades that bring out the characterful texture of this natural fibre.

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Woodland Heather Twist from Cormar Carpets is set to become a modern classic. This is an 80% pure new wool carpet launched for Spring/Summer 2021 and available in a palette of 14 beautiful shades, including earthy neutrals and on-trend grey tones such as Pine Nut, Charcoal and Silver Fox. It is tufted on tenth gauge machinery to create a fine and elegant, dense pile finish.

www.cormarcarpets.co.uk

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Durham Tweed has been created through the love of colour and the firm’s designers say that having seen a beautiful blue tweed jacket, its team were inspired by the blend of stunning shades that went into making that jacket appear ‘blue’. This one encounter has inspired a full range of quality wool carpets which take that very essence and add a little magic to it.

www.hughmackay.co.uk

Velvet ranges have been in Victoria Carpets history for 125 years – most recently for Kate & William’s wedding. Over the last 12 months Victoria have been working on Royal Velvet. This 100% wool offer based on Royal Victoria is available in 20 timeless shades and care is taken to get the look, feel and colours, on point for today’s new velvet consumers who want to add that quintessential finesse to their home.

www.victoriacarpets.com

Pattern is making a strong and welcome return to home interiors, so Abingdon is inviting retailers to embrace its reappearance so they are ready to capitalise on the style’s strong performance. The Stainfree Wilton Collection is divided between florals, tartans, checks and hessian effects and the collection uses a palette of elegant blues, greys and naturals perfectly in balance with today’s schemes. 

www.abingdonflooring.co.uk

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Anywhere is an original and ingenious indoor-outdoor carpet collection with the visual texture of sisal but with the fit-anywhere performance of easy-clean polypropylene construction. The collection is available in five textured patterns in classic and contemporary natural shades with 23 choices. There is a range of Anywhere borders making this range ideal for bespoke rugs too.

www.alternativeflooring.com

With its subtle pattern, Marble Fusion offers character in the form of a stunning marble look which is both classic and timeless, thanks to its contemporary colour palette. Using i-tuft technology to create impressively large pattern designs, these high-performance carpets have a dense, high and low-loop structure and plays with the combination of shiny and matt yarns in solution-dyed polyamide.

www.balta-carpets.com

Elegance is already a strong best-seller for Furlong but has been re-introduced with a set of substantially enhanced features. it now has 180,000 tufts per square metre, up 20,000, to offer a pinpoint finish and is 3oz heavier for better performance. The range also now features Furlong’s Combi-bac backing for fitter-friendly, scuff-free installation and which also eradicates the risk of carpet separating from its backing.

www.furlongflooring.com

Carbontex’s stylish wood and stone designs are a great choice for homes looking for a fast and easy fit. Carbontex is the latest Avenue cushion vinyl collection to benefit from Luxatex, a textile-backing that is ideal for quick refurbishment projects and instant room makeovers. Capable of being installed over existing wood, laminate and ceramic floors without glue, it is stylish and supremely comfortable.

www.avenuefloors.co.uk

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BerryAlloc is an original pioneer of 100% water-resistant laminate floors – and now Ocean+ is the company’s latest range to take advantage of this technology, bringing a laminate floor that’s completely safe for bathrooms and kitchens, on top of general household use. A hydrophobic coating repels water from joints and is combined with airtight locking systems to make Ocean+ completely water-resistant.

www.berryalloc.com

Hurst Herringbone is a new authentic wood effect LVT collection of petite planks, designed to be laid in a stylish herringbone pattern. Featuring ultra-realistic wood grain textures, these tactile luxury vinyl floor tiles look and feel like real wood, but are hugely practical, durable and sustainable. They have also been recognised for their low environmental impact including the Eurofins Indoor Air Quality Gold Standard.

www.harveymaria.com

Kährs launched Kährs Life this year as a new type of wooden floor with more durable properties at an attractive price-point. Combining the best of both worlds – the authentic look of a wooden floor with properties close to vinyl flooring – Kährs Life bridges the gap between wood and vinyl, perfectly balancing naturally beautiful aesthetics and performance.

www.kahrs.com

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Crucial’s distinctive Wool Enigma range is about “creating curiosity” with an impressive floorcovering which immediately catches the eye with its unique pattern and two-tone design. This new wool collection is available in nine colour options, from the subtle tones of Spellbound and Desert Island to the drama of Enchanted Forest and the intensity of Eternal Flame.

www.crucial-trading.com

A luxurious wilton carpet, new Grand Designs has a 1 million point construction in heat-set polypropylene to create a fine velvet that is the height of opulence – a style enhanced by the distinctive snake skin and leopard designs launched in conjunction with some traditional favourites including plaids and small geometrics.

www.fellscarpets.co.uk

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Galaxy is a hand-woven and hand-sheared carpet in type 6 nylon with a lovely soft silk-like feel. The antiqued look and fine lustred effect in conjunction with a carefully chosen palette of fashionable colours delights interior designers, reflecting pure luxury alongside the practicality and benefits of utilising a very durable fibre.

www.itcnaturalluxuryflooring.com

Ulster has curated the Natura collection to present a set of designs that magnify the beauty of nature by focusing on the intimate detail of the world around us – a perfect balance between impactful aesthetics and subtle beauty. The concept is carried through into the 24 colourways available – balancing the strongest earth hues with the hushed tones of nature.

www.ulstercarpets.com

The Invictus LVT collection was launched to great acclaim and additional design effort is delivering fashionable new options including three stone designs – Pure Marble, Hudson Stone, Bergamo – as well as Royal Oak, an eye-catching parquet to add even more breadth to this agenda-setting, high performance range.

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19th century encaustic floor tiles form the inspiration behind Northmore - a new and  best-selling LVT collection - that blends unique decorative pattern, heritage colour pigment and authentic patina. Harvey Maria has reinterpreted these stylish and prestigious Victorian floor tiles to create a collection that stands up to the demands of modern home life.

www.harveymaria.com

Using technology developed for LVT, Vitality delivers an authentic natural look that’s not been seen before on sheet vinyl flooring. The floor uses an original texture and stunning optical clarity to deliver a range of wood and concrete effects that provide homeowners with a premium look and the practicality of sheet vinyl. In 14 designs, Vitality has all the hallmarks of a floor that offers premium looks and great performance.

www.leoline.co.uk

This remarkable collection comprises 40 unique, nature-inspired wood decors, designed in line with growing consumer desire for more natural styles and comprises elegant, outspoken and vibrant patterns from light to dark shades. Moduleo LayRed has already received a Red Dot Design Innovation Award for outstanding design quality and a and a German Design Award for innovation. 

www.moduleo.com

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ECO FusionBac is a unique premium carpet backing. It is made by fusing together a fleece layer and a woven polypropylene backing. ECO FusionBac carpet backing combines advantages of these materials: it is strong and stable as well as soft and insulating. This backing makes carpet easy to install, improves its heat and noise insulation and makes it last longer. ECO FusionBac is suitable for all installation methods including stretch fit.

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Flowing K Screed from Flowcrete is a new flowing cementitious screed that delivers

the fastest drying time, high strength and versatility. Using the latest cementitious technology, Isocrete Flowing K Screed can be used with a range of subfloor systems, such as underfloor heating and acoustic insulation,whilst maintaining a lower thickness profile compared to a standard screed build up.

www.flowcrete.co.uk

Using the latest advancements in cement technology, F. Ball has created a new ultra-smooth, flexible, rapid-drying floor finishing compound for creating a flawlessly smooth subfloor finish. It is walk-on hard and ready to receive new floorcoverings from just 20 minutes after application. The water-mix product is suitable for use in biologically sensitive areas and its beige colour allows for easier marking out.

www.f-ball.com

The newly formulated F596 spray adhesive is a heavy duty product for fixing a wide variety of floorcoverings to almost any subfloor with excellent bond strength and super quick drying – and it’s free of chlorinated solvents and is non-carcinogenic. Fitters also find the handy can ideal for detail fixing work with trims, profiles and edges.

www.floorwise.co.uk

UZIN NC 151 is a heavy duty, cement based smoothing compound which dries quickly, reliably and consistently. It is ready to receive most floor coverings after only 6 hours whether applied on an absorbent or non-absorbent surface. It has great strength, excellent flow and is easy to spread, producing an exceptional finish ideal for all floor coverings such as vinyl, lino and luxury vinyl tiles.

www.uk.uzin.com

Production waste is a big challenge for maufacturers so Balta set out to find new uses for waste materials. Pure Loop is the result of that research: a machine that turns polypropylene waste from its manufacturing sites into backing for automotive and exhibition carpet and an extra backing for broadloom carpet. It recycles some 1.500 tonnes of polypropylene every year, processing a single bale in just 10 minutes.

www.baltagroup.com

Innovate Recycle’s mission is to transform the way in which the UK utilises post-consumer and industrial carpet. The company’s first recycling line is under development in Northamptonshire and is chemical and emission free. It will recycle 15,000 tonnes of polypropylene carpet per annum to produce a polypropylene pellet for use in a wide range of industries. The bi-product of calcium carbonate powder will be used to replace virgin mineral in concrete production.

www.innovaterecycle.co.uk

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Ezy-Warm is an incredibly simple and efficient underfloor heating system with one of the thinnest profiles available. Natural radiant heat technology produces super-efficient uniform heating versus conventional gas radiators or electric heaters, enabling the homeowner to significantly reduce energy costs and power their heating with renewable energy, for example, from solar panels.

www.iobac.com

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Cavalier has developed its ‘Colour Tin’ system, holding yarn in stock for fast-track custom woven axminster carpets for retailers who need to respond to rapid turnaround requirements from customers. The concept runs alongside the Creations collection of eight in-stock 'off the peg' axminster designs based on the Colour Tin yarn system. Muted tones and highlights that are designed to co-ordinate with fabrics and other finishes. 

www.cavaliercarpets.co.uk

Furlong Flooring has developed new innovative POS display stands which can exhibit a mixture of products together, specially designed for those retailers who like to display a mixture of hard flooring and carpet or vinyl together. The modern, eye-catching stands are adaptable and can be ordered as a small standalone unit or a larger graphic unit, creating a perfect display stand for any size store.

www.furlongflooring.com

Kellars Flooring has undertaken a major re-branding programme, developed in-house by its marketing/design team, to develop the company’s range of own branded products Each brand is a different distinctive creative concept and has been created in a unique style of product promotion and advertising including the dramatic Centicus carpet collection, classical Forma laminates and elegant Allora SPC products.

www.kellars.co.uk

Victoria Carpets set out to celebrate their 125th anniversary with cake, of course, and created an imaginative Carpet Cake Stand. This exclusive walk-around concept has been designed to create a showroom centrepiece without dominating the retail space and carries curved, bespoke sampling and folders for the company’s best-selling EasiCare ranges – First Impressions, Ultimate Impressions and the Heartland collection.

www.victoriacarpets.com

The Carman Companion App is a revolution for the flooring sector and sets out to connect retailers, fitters and estimators, allowing you to stay in control of your business whilst on the go. Carman Companion can manage stock, deliveries, sales, and fitting staff – all from your handheld device. App users can also monitor sales data, product lines, profit as well as taking pictures and managing the diary dynamically.

www.computersforflooring.com

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In response to the coronavirus pandemic, F. Ball introduced virtual site visits, allowing flooring contractors to receive on-the-spot site assessments and answers to their technical questions via video calls with the company’s technical service officers using mobile and tablet apps. The popularity of the virtual site visits has led the company to make them an ongoing option. 

www.f-ball.com

The CFJLIVE Online Flooring Expo in July 2021 was the first UK online flooring exhibition. Exhibitors were able to broadcast live feeds from their showrooms, training centres, demo areas and pop-up stands in offices plus share video, apps or powerpoints. Visitors interacted by going live to ask questions and the main stage included 5 hours of live demonstrations and technical help.

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i4F sets industry standards with cutting-edge digital printing technologies enabling flooring manufacturers to create unique designs, achieve superior optical quality and avoid unnecessary inventory on pre-printed materials. i4F licenses the world’s most advanced digital printing technologies delivering results so close to the real thing it’s almost impossible to tell the difference.

www.i4f.com