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Working with new generation engineered stone in Australia
What are the Essential Tools and Equipment for the new material? The emergence of 0% Crystalline silica engineered stone in Australia has changed the stone fabrication industry. Working with this new material requires specific tools and equipment to ensure efficiency, precision, and safety. Q: Which machine blades perform [...]
Team Beare; A New Standard
Beare Flooring is a new age flooring business offering clients a fresh and exciting option when purchasing flooring products. In tune with consumer demands of the times, Beare Flooring are pushing the industry forward in leaps and bounds with their own newly developed software technologies and specialising in mobile showrooms. [...]
Growing Together with Andersens
Sally and Phil Ryan own Andersens Flooring in Dalby, 82km west of Toowoomba in Queensland. It’s a small town of less than fifteen thousand people but at the start of the country stores, they service customers hundreds of kilometres away. City or country, Andersens Dalby grows from the franchise’s values [...]
Working as One – Andersens Warwick
Andersens Warwick is one of over fifty Andersens retail flooring franchises. Located 130 kilometres south-west of Brisbane, the store is managed by Mike Smith who with his wife Christine, have owned and operated the store for over 29 years. Andersens is one of the oldest of the flooring groups or [...]
Slab Falls Take Lives
Every year workers are injured and often killed in accidents involving stone slabs falling. In addition to the suffering of workers and their families, employers are often left with poor morale and reduced productivity from other employees in the company. These injuries are preventable. A storeman was crushed under 22 [...]
Origin Collection – DESSO Recharge and Retrace
Lowest circular carbon footprint A global leader in sustainability, Tarkett is proud to announce that their Desso Origin carpet tile collection delivers the lowest circular carbon footprint in Europe*, one that is at least 6 times lower** than the total carbon footprint of Tarkett’s competitors. Tarkett’s innovative circular, closed-loop systems differ [...]
The important role building design plays for the vision impaired
According to the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), there are 1.1 billion people globally living with vision loss, and a further 2 to 3 billion needing ongoing access to eye care services. In Australasia alone, there are an estimated 1.6 million people with vision loss and of [...]
Polysafe Quicklay – rewriting the rules on subfloor preparation
As the market for looselay, easier installation flooring materials continues to gradually develop, the timing is now right for the launch of Polysafe Quicklay, Polyflor’s first looselay safety flooring collection. Specifically designed to be a practical choice for contractors and specifiers alike, the Quicklay installation method saves considerable time and [...]
Hexidek – creating beautiful balconies
If you have a balcony or patio that could do with a facelift, read on. Over the last 30 years the number of Australians living in apartments has grown by over 80%, and if townhouses are included the number is significantly higher. The choice to live in an apartment is [...]
Is a silicosis free stonework factory possible?
Pacific Stone proves the answer is yes. “There is a really bad stigma in the industry that if you work with stone you will get silicosis. If you work with a bad factory, then yes, you will die eventually, but if you work with a factory that has great practices, [...]