Starnet is proud to welcome Franklin Interiors as it’s first member partner in Pittsburgh, PA.

Bentley Prince Street joins a distinct group of leading organizations across North America in adopting a more sustainable approach to doing business.

Looking for some important pre-installation checklist items you can use to “be prepared” for your next flooring project?

Mats Inc. announced today the official launch of a new and improved backing for its popular Supreme Nop matting product. Resembling the appearance and strength of elephant hide, Elephant Backing™ is made from a superior quality, high density breathable rubber that enhances Supreme Nop with a stronger grip and even longer lasting performance. Supreme Nop [...]

Starnet vendor Armstrong goes to school with high performance floors for high performance students — with their wide variety of flooring materials for creating healthy and productive environments for students and teachers. Design patterns using colors appropriate to every age group and application, from cool, eye-relaxing grays to stimulating bold, bright colors… even better, many [...]

Contract magazine and The Center for Health Design announced the winners of its annual Nightingale Awards — and our special congratulations to our friends at Mondo Rubber Flooring for winning in the flooring category: Five winners, as well as one honorable mention, were named across a variety of markets. The annual program, which is open to [...]

Our friends at Floor Daily have the following article up about the winners of Centiva’s challenge to Starnet Members in honor of the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day. Member companies were encouraged to work on “fun projects that would benefit the environment.” The Project results were due by the first of October and they repeatedly demonstrated [...]

A wonderful story from our friends at Floor Covering News: partnering with the Dallas Zoo, Mohawk is putting SmartStrand with DuPont Sorona to the ultimate durability and resiliency test: six African elephants weighing a combined 45,000 pounds.

Our marketing materials go-to guy, Clint Schramm, pointed us to this piece of good news from the AIA: “For the first time since January 2008, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) indicated a growth in design activity in September, increasing for the fourth straight month. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI reflects [...]

Dear friends — please enter your best flooring project to the Starnet Design Awards 2011. We look forward to seeing your work!

Wonderful fun news from Armstrong Commercial Flooring: Armstrong is pleased to be participating in a new NBC show called School Pride! The show has a very similar concept to “Extreme Makeover Home Edition”. If you watch any programming on NBC you may have recently seen a trailer for the show. The pilot episode airs this [...]

Click on the Starnet YouTube channel to see our own Jeanne Matson discussing Vancouver! Part one is here Part two is here Part three is here

Dear Starnet members and vendor partners — please contact Pamela Herrlinger if you didn’t receive the September Starnotes. And everybody, please remember to send Pam your stories, news, and photos!

Here’s an interesting, up-beat forecast for the flooring industry. We have had Jonathan Trivers entertain and enlighten our Membership at a past Annual Meeting. He presented the following at FIANA — and it’s full of good information for all of us. At the recent FIANA Convention in San Antonio, Texas, we had the opportunity to [...]

Dear Starnet Members and Vendor Partners — don’t forget to read this month’s Starnotes! Hot topics include the November Starnet 2010 Fall Meeting, an intro to our new Controller, and a brief on the the unique selling proposition that is Starnet. Read on for member news and business solutions, and please remember to send us [...]

Floor Daily reports that the Carpet and Rug Institute (CRI) is supporting proposed legislation in California that provides incentives for carpet recycling: “The Carpet Stewardship Bill, sponsored by Assembly Speaker John A. Perez, (D-Los Angeles) represents new thinking in the area of product stewardship, in that it will incentivize carpet recycling by rewarding those entrepreneurs [...]

A lovely article in Floor Covering News on the tribute to the wonderful life and work of industry stalwart Sonna Calandrino: “…hailed as a pioneer, a teacher, a visionary, and praised for her courage, determination and caring nature, but most of all she was called a friend to everyone throughout the supply chain… …That was [...]

The registration link for the Starnet 2010 Fall Membership Meeting is LIVE! Members and Vendor Partners, please refer to the link Starnet emailed to you. Members may also register by logging into S-Net. Through this link, you can sign up for all activities connected with the meeting as well as reserving a room at our [...]

Remember to read Starlog for ongoing discussions of floorcovering issues! This month, a lot of good reasons — even in (or especially in) a down or slowly recovering market — to use quality products and network with top-notch vendors on every aspect of the job. Read the whole thing here!

Our friends at Mats Inc. sent us news about the launch of Floorazzo™, their: “new line of prefabricated terrazzo tile flooring by Mats Inc. Floorazzo™ offers the beauty and luxurious look of terrazzo flooring without the lengthy and expensive installation process. The Floorazzo™ line boasts 35 standard colors across two unique collections, Marbles and Gems. [...]

We got a fun email from the good folks at Wilsonart that we want to share: “Dear Starnet team, We hope you might enjoy reading the latest issue of Wilsonart Flooring’s July Laminate Flooring Journal. It’s a patriotically-themed tribute to this made-in-America company’s latest projects: “To Honor and Empower Wounded Warriors”: Learn more about Wilsonart [...]

On September 25, from 8:00 a.m.  to 2:00 p.m., meet up for Mr. David’s 2nd Annual Bike Challenge at Randall and North Avenue, Saint Charles, IL. The 2nd Annual Mr. David’s Bike Challenge is a 50k bike race/ride benefitting Elmhurst Memorial Hospital Foundation. The schedule for this very worthy event is: 8:00am Registration at Pavilion [...]

Matt at Floor Covering News lets us all know about their new social media — now there’s lots of fun, easy ways to get the latest scoop on the flooring industry: Matt writes: “I just wanted to make everyone aware that Floor Covering News is moving up the social media ladder in such areas as Facebook, [...]

Last May, our friends at Heritage Contract Flooring planted 30 trees at Buffalo Public Schools. Heritage has partnered with LPCiminelli, Lees Carpets, and Starnet Worldwide. All 30 trees were donated by Re-Tree of WNY. Each tree was planted by Heritage staff members, with help from students at the following six schools: PS 82 Early Childhood Center, [...]

Our own VP of Operations Fred Williamson on YouTube! Here Fred discusses Starnet in general; here he talks about our relationships with vendor partners; and here he explains our best practices committee’s work. Fred, you are a star!

Congratulations to Vortex Commercial Flooring for winning the 2010 Small Corporate Starnet Design Awards with their graceful, serene work for Pfingsten Partners. Vortex Commercial Flooring worked with architects Eastlake Studio and designers Tom Zurowski, AIA; Ann Chin, Senior Designer, LEED AP; Ian McCain, LEED AP; and lovely product from Karastan. An strong interior, opening up to [...]

Randy Rubenstein sends us fun photos of Rubenstein’s Contract Carpet LLC and Teragren working together on their Earth Day 2010 project of caring for the magnificent Madrona Woods in the Pacific northwest. Thank you for these inspiring and lovely images!

Starnet members aren’t just smart and skilled — they are strong as iron! In a first for us, member Ian Martin, VP Commercial Sales for Great Floors in Idaho completed the Iron Man! Wow! His time was a seriously impressive 12 hours and 4 minutes. Find Great Floors LLC at 524 E Sherman Avenue in Coeur d’Alene, [...]

Mannington Commercial has been honored with two Best of NeoCon awards in this year’s competition: for Earthly Elements hardwood flooring in square tiles and planks, and for Choices that Work, a mobile App that truly serves designers. Designers working in segments from corporate to healthcare are inspired by the new look in engineered hardwood, Earthly [...]

Hot Topic #1: New Ardex K55 Rapid and Microtec Self Leveling Underlayment with a general overview of self leveling underlayments Date: Tuesday, June 29th Time: 1:00 – 2:00pm Eastern; Noon – 1:00pm Central; 11:00 – Noon Mountain; 10:00 – 11:00am Pacific Focus: Sales/Technical Presenters: John Felker, Seth Pervarnick, and an Ardex Architectural Specialist to be [...]

CCA’s Sean Flannery participated in the 16th Annual Special Olympics Challenge day at the James E. Duckworth School, located in Beltsville, Maryland on May 21, 2010. Assisting AOBA (Apartment and Office Building Association of Metropolitan Washington) who hosted the day’s events, Sean Flannery really got into his role as the catcher for the adapted javelin [...]

Congratulations to  Alexandria Carpet One Floor & Home — awarded the prestigious 2009 Angie’s List Super Service Award! The Super Service Award, now celebrating its 11th year, is reserved for companies who have achieved and maintained a superior service rating on Angie’s List – the nation’s leading provider of consumer ratings on local service companies [...]

Starnet member Corporate Floors, Inc., a Grapevine, Texas, based commercial flooring services company, has acquired the assets of Dallas-based ReSource Flooring Group. Corporate Floors, a minority certified business, member of the StarNet Commercial Flooring Partnership and a MilliCare Textile and Carpet Care franchisee, is known for its strong commitment to customer service and industry-leading sustainability [...]

From Sam Prager of Carpet Services Inc. in Irving TX and Joshua Perry of Sally Beauty Company in Denton TX, here’s a great testimonial to the power of Starnet — the cooperation that gets everybody the floor they want, when and where they want it: “I just wanted you all to know that the Starnet [...]

In our 2010 Category: Public Space, Starnet Member Floors and More won for their strong, natural floors, which designate space and help to guide shoppers at Harps Food in Benton AR. Universal Flooring worked with J Price Architecture and manufacturers Armstrong, Ardex, and Daltile. A serene, clean interior!

Here’s a fun, interesting PR from our friends at Mannington — a mobile app for designers! Mannington Commercial announces the launch of Choices that Work, the floorcovering industry’s first mobile application designed to serve designers’ process. Using a smart phone’s integrated camera and scanning technology, the app integrates with Mannington sample books to show coordinating [...]

Awarded Honoree in our 2010 Student Achievement category, Rachel Erickson from the Virginia Tech School of Architecture and Design created a clean, open space for the World Wildlife Fund Headquarters, Washington, DC. Rachel worked with Teragren on the lovely bamboo surfaces. Another Honoree in our 2010 Student Achievement category, Lindsey Richards from the Virginia Tech School of Architecture [...]

Our friends at Cornerstone Commercial Flooring kindly sent us some good news from Louisiana — thank you! “Cornerstone Commercial Flooring is proud to announce the Grand Opening of their new innovative Design Center and Sample Library in Baton Rouge. Wednesday, the 26th of May from 2:00 to 7:00 pm. 10125 Mammoth Ave. Baton Rouge, LA [...]

Our friend Tammy Weadock from Wilsonart sends us a press release announcing their new spec binder. Tammy writes: “HPL Leader Introduces New Specification Binder As a leading manufacturer of High Pressure Laminate (HPL) surfacing, Wilsonart has a history of delivering exceptional performance, value and service. In fact, no other flooring manufacturer offers more trend smart, [...]