Carpet tile continuing to grow at rapid pace

Carpet tiles have been around for over 60 years and, from the start, they were recognized as a great product choice for many commercial applications. It has only been over the last decade that carpet tiles have begun to make a real impact. Today, the product is doing more than shaking up the industry. In some ways, it is controlling the market as modular carpet has been growing to the point where it now represents at least half of all soft surface commercial sales—including those on Main Street.

Tim Baucom, Shaw Industries’ vice president of commercial sales and marketing, believes carpet tile “represents a little more than half of the total revenue in the commercial [carpet] market, and about 17% of the total carpet market.”

For Natalie Jones, Mannington’s vice president of commercial brand development and creative product, “modular carpet [not only] continues to take market share, even in broadloom markets, with Mannington, more than 60% of our commercial carpet is now tile.”