FCNnovation Awards 2025: Laminate

FCNews unveiled the winners of its fifth annual FCNnovation Awards—a program designed to recognize and showcase some of the most innovative new products and technologies launched in 2025. These awards honor groundbreaking ideas and industry-changing concepts that have impacted flooring across categories and verticals. Below are the laminate winners, including Mannington’s Everest and Karastan’s BelleLuxe.

Mannington—Everest

Everest, Mannington’s latest addition to the Restoration Collection, shows off the added realism and innovation behind Mannington’s product design. The line features subtle edge spalting that brings a sense of scale with its impressive new 60-inch-long boards and 18-plank repeat for added realism. Everest is embossed in register and features Mannington’s SculptedEdge pressed bevel, creating greater realism.

The nnovative structure behind the construction of products across the Restoration Collection gives floor covering retailers a laminate flooring product that provides trade-up opportunities over entry-level laminates, while still offering consumers a more affordable option to real wood. The end result is a product floor covering dealers can have confidence selling.

Highlights:

• Trending design
  Eye-catching, 60-inch-long boards
• Color palette
  Mirrors top-selling hardwood stains
• SculptedEdge
  A pressed bevel innovation that enhances visual realism
• SpillShield Plus Technology
  Provides water resistance

Karastan—BelleLuxe

BelleLuxe Waterproof Laminate features Mohawk’s Signature Technology, which entails up to 75 layers of texture for a multidimensional beauty consumers can see and feel. The latest visuals offered aim to better replicate natural hardwood than what’s currently available on the market, thanks to wider, longer planks that are indistinguishable from the genuine article. Updated BelleLuxe collections expand dealers’ options, while providing consumers and end users with a high-fashion product at an accessible price point.

The line’s latest updates don’t stop there. BelleLuxe also features the addition of GenuEdge XR, an upgrade to Mohawk’s innovative GenuEdge Technology. This innovation creates highly realistic wood visuals by allowing the surface design to wrap over the edges of the plank, mimicking wood’s real rolled edges. As an added plus, all BelleLuxe products offer WetProtect for full-coverage waterproof protection.

Highlights:

• GenuEdge XR
  Combines natural coloration with a sharper, more realistic pressed bevel
• WetProtect Technology
  Provides full-coverage waterproof protection
• Visuals
  Premium oak visuals, like Gloriana Charm, stand out in a crowd

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