2006: A year full of changes  (Mohawk Carpet)

The Dixie Group, a Chattanooga-based carpet manufacturer, opened a plant in Eton earlier this year. The carpet industry experienced a busy year with the retirements of several key executives as well as a slowdown in sales. …continued

The Mohawk Group welcomes a new leader to head its hospitality brand. The Mohawk Group’s President Jim McCallum announced that Lee Blair has been promoted to senior vice president of Durkan Hospitality. …continued

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Mohawk Carpet - DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products Begin Bio-PDO(TM) Production in

PR Newswire - Sorona(R) is currently sold in the residential carpet market by Mohawk Industries under the SmartStrand(TM) with DuPont(TM) Sorona(R) polymer brand. It also can be used in a variety of other applications including automotive and home furnishings More

Toronto Star - Mohawk and DuPont claim the carpet is softer than current synthetics and also more stain-resistant, durable and easier to dye. While it’s expected to be economically priced just below nylon the bio-fibre is not commercially available yet. More

Celebrity Baby Blog - Nicole Richie took her brother and sister to the movies last week, to see Charlotte’s Web. Nicole was adopted by Lionel and Brenda Richie . Lionel then married Diane Alexander and they had Myles , 12, and Sofia , 8. To honor her late father, Bruce More

OregonLive.com - A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter rescued a 47-year-old surfer stranded Saturday in a cove near Cannon Beach. The surfer later refused medical treatment. Around 9:45 a.m., Seaside 911 received reports of two surfers trapped in a cove on the north part of More

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On the Move  (Mohawk Carpet)

On the Move Here’s this week’s roundup of whos doing what, where in the design community. by Meaghan O’Neill Interior Design January 26, 2007 Read more…

HERKIMER - A flat-bed tractor trailer plunged into the Erie Canal from the Thruway above, Friday afternoon, narrowly missing a local store on its way down. Read more…

Good news could be coming for one Mohawk Valley business seeking Empire Zone status. Read more…

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From The Archives (Mohawk Carpet)

Syracuse Post-Standard - The cat was worried. It was a decent morning, as the apothecary kept his word. The sky was bone white and a gentle breeze blew across the Thruway. They were within 10 miles of Albany now, and no one - not a single Thruway worker, not a single state Continue reading

CNN Money - Employees have also filed an ongoing suit against Mohawk Industries ( Charts ), a carpet manufacturer in Dalton, Ga. “They are frustrated with illegals dragging down their wages,” says Chicago attorney Howard Foster, who filed the suit on behalf of the Continue reading

OregonLive.com - Portland-area residents strongly believe existing roads should be adequately maintained before any money is spent on new ones, according to a new Metro survey. The survey also showed the public to be evenly divided between those who say the best way Continue reading

AccessAtlanta - He actually lives in a sweet L.A. bungalow with the sweet-faced, mohawk-sporting mother of his absolutely adorable young son and-blue cable news channel that knocked CNN s ratings block off a little over four years ago rolled out the red carpet in Continue reading

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DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products Begin Bio-PDO Production in Tennessee, Worlds First Plant to Produce Propanediol from …  (Mohawk Carpet)

LOUDON, November 27, 2006 — DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products, LLC, an equally owned joint venture of DuPont and Tate & Lyle , today announced the first commercial shipments of Bio-PDO from its $100 million facility here. Details…

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Mohawk signs contract for new waste disposal program (Mohawk Carpet)

Herkimer Evening Telegram - AGREEMENT STRUCK - Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority’s David Lupinski, left, holds up one of the new garbage bags that will be used by residents who live in the village of Mohawk. A new contract was signed by Mohawk Mayor Irene Dibble, center details

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Future is coming fast: Nursing homes see technology as bright spot (Mohawk Carpet)

Observer-Dispatch - We certainly have set out the red-carpet treatment,” said Presbyterian’s Joseph, of his own facility’s efforts. But Folts Homes in Herkimer and Mohawk Valley Nursing Home in Ilion have teamed up to attack the shortage directly. Last fall they began More

Turkish Daily News - Usher and Simpson arrived on the red carpet not by car, but by luxury yacht. Simpson, glamorously attired in a white dress Dressed in a white suit and with a Mohawk haircut, he arrived in a towering yacht along with Ma$e, Naomi Campbell and Bruce More

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Mohawk Carpet - Rob Schultz: Bearded Stiemsma delivers best game as a Badger 

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Amidst the backslaps and attaboys that Greg Stiemsma received from his teammates Saturday afternoon, a lively locker-room debate started regarding why he had just played his best game in a Wisconsin men’s basketball uniform. …continued

ST. JOHNSVILLE The chance to celebrate this Mohawk Valley village’s sesquicentennial comes after one of the most difficult of St. Johnsville’s 150 years. …continued

Twelve upstate counties affected by this summer’s fierce floods will finally get the federal aid they’ve been waiting for. The government has granted $16 million in assistance to New York for work in the aftermath of last June’s flooding. …continued

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Cover all your bases and (Mohawk Carpet) consider carpet manufacturers 

Carpet, that endless expanse of nylon and other fibers that filled many a 1950s living room, isn’t the go-to floor covering it used to be. Continue…

OCTOBER 11, 2006 - — The Mohawk Group, with brands including Lees, Durkan, and Mohawk, has earned Scientific Certification Systems (SCS) Sustainable Choice Platinum and Gold Environmentally Preferable Product (EPP) certification. Continue…

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Mohawk Carpet - The Eastern Door - - KAHNAWAKE MOHAWK TERRITORY 

Kanienkehaka Onkwaw n:na Raotitiohkwa Cultural Center Executive Director Donna Goodleaf feels that a new Kanienk ha language initiative recently announced by the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake is a duplication of services. More…

Some on board favor them despite backlash at October meeting. School uniforms could be required at Northampton Area High School in the fall despite protests from more than 150 students and parents three months ago. More…

Brockport State junior guard Ashley Broadhurst (Sauquoit/Notre Dame) was named to the all-tournament team after helping the Golden Eagles reach the finals of the Morgan Chase Scholarship Women’s Basketball Tournament at Roberts Wesleyan. More…

A done deal A St. Regis Mohawk casino in Sullivan County has seemed to be pretty much a done deal since the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) delivered a finding of No significant environmental impact for the project late last year. More…

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