How did Congoleum get involved with technology from the aerospace industry?
Floating floors have been gaining in popularity, and we challenged our R&D people to come up with a floating product. Our sister company, American Biltrite, was producing an adhesive film for the aerospace industry that has tremendous tensile strength but doesn’t shrink or expand. They created an adhesive that prevents side-to-side movement, but is not difficult to remove when needed. We applied the film to a number of planks and did a lot of examination in our research lab to create a new floating floor. We found that if you put two pieces of this flooring together incorrectly, you can pull them up and reposition them without difficulty. Is Connections your first floating floor? We actually have a fairly wide array of floors that can float today. We have this new product, Connections. We also have Underflor, which allows retailers to install our DuraCeramic or Endurance Plank products in a floating installation. We also have a family of products called AirStep Plus and Evolution. Thos
