Lancaster-based Ecore International, a privately held company that specializes in transforming reclaimed materials into flooring and surface products, is investing $25.5 million to open a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Ozark, Alabama.

Mountville, Lancaster County-based AHF Products, which recently acquired the former Armstrong flooring plant in Lancaster, announced it will close its Titusville, Crawford County factory and move manufacturing of select solid and engineered wood flooring products to Kentucky and Tennessee. 

AHF Products, which last month purchased three Armstrong Flooring plants, sold and leased back five other properties in its industrial portfolio.

Like an aging heavyweight boxer on his way to a final defeat, Armstrong Flooring may have taken too many body blows to ever hope to be victorious, unless they can land one last lucky punch.

After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this month, Lancaster-based Armstrong Flooring is looking to auction its assets in a competitive bidding period next month. 

Armstrong Flooring has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as it continues to search for a buyer. 

After securing a week-long extension from its lenders to evaluate the best path forward for its business, Lancaster-based Armstrong Flooring said that it is likely that it will be seeking bankruptcy protection. 

Following its announcement last year that it was looking to sell the company, Lancaster-based Armstrong Flooring wrote in an annual report that it will need to either sell the company or refinance to stay solvent. 

Armstrong World Industries Inc. has named Austin So senior vice president, general counsel and secretary, effective Feb. 1. 

Following the departure of its CEO and co-founder last week, Harrisburg-based specialty flooring retailer Touch of Color (TOC) Flooring has promoted its vice president of sales and operations to CEO. 

The owner and founder of a Harrisburg-based flooring company has sold his 19-year ownership stake in the company to focus on another flooring venture. 

Lancaster-based industrial epoxy flooring contractor, Surface Technology, announced a new division to respond to critical projects on short notice.

Luxury vinyl tile maker, Parterre, is the latest to join AHF Products’ portfolio of flooring brands after the West Hempfield Township company recently acquired certain assets of the Wilmington, Massachusetts-based manufacturer.

After Armstrong Flooring Inc. sold its hardwood flooring business to a private equity firm, a wood product scientist with 16 years of experience with the company left to form his own business.

Wood flooring manufacturer AHF Products expects to close on a deal next month with a Texas-based competitor.