ARDEX Americas Wins 10 Awards at 2018 Starnet Design Awards, Including 5 Gold
Aliquippa, PA, April 23, 2018 – ARDEX Americas is proud to be recognized at The Starnet Commercial Flooring Design Awards as a preferred vendor for 10 winners, including five gold awards. Starnet is the world’s largest network of full-service, independent flooring contractors, committed to the pursuit of excellence in the industry. The 20th Annual Starnet Design Awards recognizes outstanding commercial installations for their creative use of flooring, overall design and quality.
“We’re honored to be involved in so many of their year’s winning projects,” said Robert Dalton, ARDEX Director of Customer Operations and Commercial Excellence. “Starnet contractors’ commitment to installing exceptional floors mirrors ARDEX’ dedication to providing quality products that deliver consistent results.”
The 10 winning installations that named ARDEX as a preferred vendor included both ARDEX and HENRY products. HENRY, a division of ARDEX Americas, is a manufacturer of adhesives for all types of flooring installations. The five gold medal winners are:
People’s Choice Gold: Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Orange, California Starnet Member: Universal Metro
Education Gold: University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wisconsin Starnet Member: J. Martin & Sons, Inc.
ARDEX President Jesse David said, “ARDEX is proud of our long-standing partnership with Starnet, an organization dedicated to raising the bar in the flooring industry, and we look forward to many more years to come!”
About ARDEX, A Global Innovation Leader in High Performance Specialty Building Materials: Recognized by installation experts, ARDEX is a global leader in the development, manufacture and distribution of high-performance specialty building products for all aspects of substrate preparation, floor covering, tile and stone installation systems and architectural concrete systems for commercial and residential applications. As a family-owned company, the ARDEX Group leads through local customer interaction striving for excellence in all that we do. For more information about ARDEX Americas: www.ardexamericas.com, or call 724-203-5000.
ARDEX Receives 2017 Vendor Partner Award from Fishman Flooring Solutions
ARDEX Receives 2017 Vendor Partner Award from Fishman Flooring Solutions
BALTIMORE, MD., April 23, 2018 – Fishman Flooring Solutions, a leading distributor of flooring and flooring installation products, has presented ARDEX Americas with its 2017 Vendor Partner Award, recognizing the company for its contributions to Fishman’s sales growth. ARDEX Americas is a flooring industry pacesetter in developing and manufacturing high-performance products used for concrete repair and resurfacing, substrate preparation and flooring installation. ARDEX has been a Fishman vendor for more than seven years.
Recipients of the Vendor Partner Award must demonstrate the highest standards for training Fishman’s sales team, its customers and general contractors in the proper use of the vendor’s products. They must also provide superior marketplace support for those products. ARDEX has multiple sales representatives in each of Fishman’s five regions. Their training on the use of highly-technical ARDEX products ensures that users will derive the most value from them and consistently enables Fishman to “delight our customers,” said Bob Wagner, president and CEO of Fishman.
“Receiving this award is very important to ARDEX, because we understand that business growth is not a matter of chance,” said Jesse David, president of ARDEX Americas. “We work very hard every day to deepen our engagement with distributor partners like Fishman, in order to grow their business and ours. The increase in ARDEX business with Fishman over the past seven years is evidence that our efforts are paying dividends. »
Caption: ARDEX President Jesse David (r) accepts the 2017 Vendor Partner Award from Fishman President and CEO, Bob Wagner.
The 2017 Vendor Partner Award was presented at Fishman’s recently-concluded annual sales meeting, which was held April 16 to 18, 2018 in Baltimore, Maryland. The event featured 28 vendors exhibiting flooring installation products, with several vendors providing training in the use of their products.
Wagner and David, surrounded by the ARDEX/Fishman Sales Support team.
About Fishman Flooring Solutions:
Fishman Flooring Solutions, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, is the “Solutions Provider” distributor of flooring and flooring installation products. It has approximately 230 employees and 36 branches serving Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. The firm, a division of L. Fishman & Son, Inc., distributes more than 36,000 products for approximately 75 vendor partners. For more information, please go to www.lfishman.com.
About ARDEX, A Global Innovation Leader in High Performance Specialty Building Materials:
Recognized by installation experts, ARDEX is a global leader in the development, manufacture and distribution of high-performance specialty building products for all aspects of substrate preparation, floor covering, tile and stone installation systems and architectural concrete systems for commercial and residential applications. As a family-owned company, the ARDEX Group leads through local customer interaction striving for excellence in all that we do. For more information about ARDEX Americas: www.ardexamericas.com, or call 724-203-5000.
Announcing the Latest Recipient of the Bruce Newbrough Memorial Scholarship: Mark Holman
Aliquippa, PA, January 17, 2018 – FCICA, the Flooring Contractors Association, along with ARDEX Americas and nora systems, Inc. announced that Mark Holman is the 2017 4th quarter recipient of the Bruce Newbrough Memorial Certified Installation Manager Program (CIM) Scholarship.
Holman, who works for Garmon and Company, is from Charlotte, North Carolina. He studied Civil Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and opened a commercial flooring installation business. To maintain a constant work load, Holman constantly worked to master installation techniques of the many type of floors and concrete preparation methods available.
Working for Garmon & Company as a field supervisor, Holman writes, “Using my experience to catch a problem before it becomes one is very gratifying. I always try to improvise and find a way to complete jobs even if conditions, schedule, or materials are not ideal. If someone says it can’t be done, that’s the project I want to be on!”
Harmon continues, “The opportunity provided in the CIM program to learn more about our profession and how to be more proactive and capable in all aspects of managing a project is invaluable. Any new knowledge that I can acquire to make jobs better for our company and our installers is greatly appreciated. I hope to continue Bruce Newbrough’s legacy by passing along the knowledge I receive to others.”
Bruce Newbrough, a former ARDEX Director of Technical Services and later Applications Development, was the inspiration for the eponomous scholarship due to his passion for industry education and training of proper substrate preparation. The scholarship covers the costs associated with the Certified Installation Manager (CIM) Program, including application, content and assessment fees.
Scholarship applications are accepted throughout the year. Applications are available on the FCICA website: www.fcica.com/CIM .
About ARDEX, A Global Innovation Leader in High Performance Specialty Building Materials: Recognized by installation experts, ARDEX is a global leader in the development, manufacture and distribution of high-performance specialty building products for all aspects of substrate preparation, floor covering, tile and stone installation systems and architectural concrete systems for commercial and residential applications. As family owned company, the ARDEX Group leads through local customer interaction striving for excellence in all that we do. For more information about ARDEX Americas: www.ardexamericas.com, or call 724-203-5000.
About the Certified Installation Manager (CIM) Program:
The CIM program provides industry-specific training modules led by experts that speak from years of floor covering experience packaged with assessments to confirm the vast knowledge obtained. The program is completely online, allowing users to work at their own pace, on their own time. For more information about the CIM Program, go to www.fcica.com/CIM.
About FCICA: FCICA, headquartered in West Bloomfield, Michigan, is the resource for premier commercial flooring contractors. Promoting the advancement and continuous development of Certified Installation Managers (CIM). Providing technical education, business support and industry expert networking. Delivering skills and knowledge to enhance the professionalism of commercial flooring contractors. FCICA is an international association whose contractor members serve the continental United States, plus Canada and Guam. For more information about FCICA: visit www.fcica.com or call 248-661-5015; toll free (877) TO-FCICA.
Turkey for You, Turkey for Me 2017
Yesterday was the annual ARDEX « Turkey for you, Turkey for me » event! ARDEX’s dynamic leadership team: Jesse David, President, Americas; Lori Angelo, Chief Financial Officer and VP Shared Services; and Mike Crouch, President, Americas, Latin America, Innovation & R&D were on hand to give out turkeys to every employee.
The ARDEX tradition has been in practice for decades, and as employees gather in the technical training center to eat pie and collect their huge birds (mine was a staggering 19.25 lbs!), it’s a rather festive way to celebrate the upcoming holiday. That pile of boxes held about 150 turkeys to be distributed yesterday.
Overheard: « ARDEX finds a good home for every turkey! » And if that isn’t a great Thanksgiving message, I don’t know what is! Happy Thanksgiving all!
Lori and Jesse prepare to begin handing out the turkeys!
ARDEX folks eye up the table of pie.
Keeping watch over the turkey pile.
Mike helps Pam, our ARDEX Academy guru, with her turkey.
Aliquippa, PA (November 7, 2017) – ARDEX Americas is pleased to announce that ARDEX UI 720™ FLEXBONE® Floating Uncoupling Membrane is now available in convenient sheets for purchase at ARDEX distributors throughout North America.
A revolutionary unbonded, floating uncoupling membrane for true 100% uncoupling, the ARDEX UI 720 FLEXBONE sheets are designed for installer convenience on smaller jobs. Each sheet is 39” wide x 78.75” long (1 m wide x 2 m long) for 21.5 ft2 (2 m2) of coverage per sheet.
ARDEX UI 720 FLEXBONE saves up to 50% on installation time and cost and is an ideal solution for frequently changed-out floors or for use directly over an array of difficult substrates that would normally require subfloor preparation prior to installation. The unique bone shape design allows for fast and easy prefilling in just one pass.
“Our UI 720 FLEXBONE SHEETS are the perfect solution for smaller jobs when the 215 sq. ft. roll is too much.” said Russ Gaetano, ARDEX Senior Marketing Manager, Tile & Stone Installation Systems. “The innovative technology behind this one-of-a-kind uncoupling system is now available as a convenient solution for every size installation!”
For more information on ARDEX Americas, please visit www.ardexamericas.com or call 1-888-512-7339 to find a distributor near you.
A Global Innovation Leader in High Performance Specialty Building Materials:
Recognized by installation experts, ARDEX is a global leader in the development, manufacture and distribution of high-performance specialty building products for all aspects of substrate preparation, floor covering, tile and stone installation systems and architectural concrete systems for commercial and residential applications. A family owned company, the ARDEX Group leads through local customer interaction striving for excellence in all that we do.
ARDEX Participates in Adopt-A-Highway
Yesterday ARDEX’ Adopt-A-Highway volunteers dodged November rain to pick up litter from Todd Road during our Fall clean-up. The team picked up 28 bags of trash and other miscellaneous debris.
This is ARDEX’s 11th year participating in the Adopt-A-Highway program.
Payam Riazati Receives the Bruce Newbrough Memorial Scholarship
Aliquippa, PA, October 18, 2017 – FCICA, the Flooring Contractors Association, along with ARDEX Americas and nora systems, Inc. announced that Payim Riazati is the 2017 3rd quarter recipient of the Bruce Newbrough Memorial Certified Installation Manager Program (CIM) Scholarship.
Riazati of Universal Metro, Inc. writes, “I have always believed in the power of education and the difference it can make in one’s life.”
Riazati holds a bachelor’s degree in civil and environmental engineering with a specialization in structural design from the University of California, Irvine, and his master’s degree in civil engineering with a specialization in construction management. As Director of Construction Services at Universal Metro, Riazati has been working on substrate remediation techniques.
Riazati said, “I am humble and proud to be the recipient of the Bruce Newbrough Memorial Scholarship. This opportunity will help me in engaging myself in a life-long learning experience through CIM programs. It is my vision and dream to learn and deliver this knowledge to the next generation of Certified Installation Managers. On behalf of our entire team at Universal Metro, I would like to thank the FCICA board and committees as well as the sponsors of this program: ARDEX and nora.”
Bruce Newbrough, a former ARDEX Director of Technical Services and later Applications Development, was the inspiration for the eponomous scholarship due to his passion for industry education and training of proper substrate preparation. The scholarship covers the costs associated with the Certified Installation Manager (CIM) Program, including application, content and assessment fees.
Scholarship applications are accepted throughout the year, the next scholarship opportunity will open this December. Applications are available on the FCICA website: www.fcica.com/CIM .
About ARDEX, A Global Key Player in High Performance Specialty Building Materials: Recognized by installation experts, ARDEX is a global leader in the development, manufacture and distribution of high-performance specialty building products for all aspects of substrate preparation, floor covering, tile and stone installation systems and architectural concrete systems for commercial and residential applications. As family owned company and built on a foundation of product performance and a global focus on training, the ARDEX Group leads through local customer interaction striving for excellence in all that we do. For more information about ARDEX Americas: www.ardexamericas.com, or call 724-203-5000.
About the Certified Installation Manager (CIM) Program:
The CIM program provides industry-specific training modules led by experts that speak from years of floor covering experience packaged with assessments to confirm the vast knowledge obtained. The program is completely online, allowing users to work at their own pace, on their own time. For more information about the CIM Program, go to www.fcica.com/CIM.
About FCICA: FCICA, headquartered in West Bloomfield, Michigan, is the resource for premier commercial flooring contractors. Promoting the advancement and continuous development of Certified Installation Managers (CIM). Providing technical education, business support and industry expert networking. Delivering skills and knowledge to enhance the professionalism of commercial flooring contractors. FCICA is an international association whose contractor members serve the continental United States, plus Canada and Guam. For more information about FCICA: visit www.fcica.com or call 248-661-5015; toll free (877) TO-FCICA.
ARDEX Americas Matches Employee Donations for Hurricane Relief Efforts
Aliquippa, PA, September 18, 2017 – ARDEX Americas is committed to aiding recovery and rebuilding efforts by all those affected by the recent hurricanes and announced that it will be matching employee donations collected through the end of September. The contributions, as well as an additional corporate donation, will be made to the Red Cross.
As the immediate recovery ends and long-term rebuilding efforts begin, ARDEX Americas will be working in collaboration with distribution partners to help those affected in the local communities to recover and rebuild.
For more information on ARDEX Americas, please visit www.ardexamericas.com or call 1-888-512-7339 to find a distributor near you.
A Global Innovation Leader in High Performance Specialty Building Materials: Recognized by installation experts, ARDEX is a global leader in the development, manufacturing and distribution of high-performance specialty building products for all aspects of substrate preparation, floor covering, tile and stone installation systems and architectural concrete systems for commercial and residential applications. A family owned company, the ARDEX Group leads through local customer interaction striving for excellence in all that we do.
Trash Talk: ARDEX Making Big Strides in Recycling
This summer ARDEX Americas’ Dallas, Georgia, plant rolled out an innovative recycling initiative that will effectively eliminate a large portion of waste produced the facility. Michael Deppa, Plant Engineer, spearheaded the effort with the help of Tim Blanchett, Plant Manager.
Michael explains, “Essentially nothing used to produce our products will end up in a landfill – things like cardboard, stretch film and plastic pails.”
The Dallas plant partnered with a local, well-established, industrial recycling company to recycle the material. Designated plant areas were assigned for each type of material, and employees in each department were individually trained to use, empty and maintain the areas.
“It does require a little bit of coordination to set this up and keep it working,” Deppa said. “Our challenge now is to maintain and motivate everyone to continue the processes we’ve set up.”
Pictured: ARDEX Shipper/Loader Britanya Womack participates in the plant-wide recycling initiative.
Tim believes that, “This is a vital program that underscores ARDEX’ commitment to the environment and sustainability. Every plant employee plays a role in the success of this program.”
“Efforts like this one have the potential to make a huge impact over time,” Michael says in closing, “and as an added bonus, we’re saving money on dumpsters!”
ARDEX Recognized by NASFA For Participation and Support
NASFA, the National Association of State Facilities Administrators, recognized ARDEX Americas during their 2017 Conference & Resource Expo held from June 11 to June 14, 2017. Robert Jones (left), President of the NASFA Virginia Chapter, presented the award to Mike Tracy, ARDEX Business Development Manager, in appreciation of ARDEX’s participation and support for the event and the organization.
Tracy said, “This was ARDEX’s first participation in NASFA’s Annual Conference. The caliber of the attendees, professionalism, level of engagement and information interchange was impressive and exhilarating!”
The Expo was held at the Sheraton in Virginia Beach, Virginia. NASFA is an association committed to fostering communication and providing leadership for the state facilities professional.
