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Armstrong World Industries

Armstrong World Industries, Inc. is a Pennsylvania corporation incorporated in 1891.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Armstrong World Industries, Form 10-Q, Quarterly Report, Filing Date Oct 29, 2012 )〕 It is an international designer and manufacturer of floors and ceilings. Based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Armstrong operates 32 plants in eight countries and has approximately 8,500 employees worldwide.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Armstrong World Industries, Form 8-K, Current Report, Filing Date Nov 6, 2012 )〕 In 2011, Armstrong’s net sales were $2.86 billion, with operating income of $239.2 million.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Armstrong World Industries, Form 10-K, Annual Report, Filing Date Feb 27, 2012 )

Armstrong World Industries, Inc. emerged from Chapter 11 reorganization on October 2, 2006.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Armstrong World Industries, Form 8-K, Current Report, Filing Date Oct 2, 2006 )〕 Its stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange October 18, 2006 under the ticker symbol AWI. The Armstrong World Industries, Inc. Asbestos Personal Injury Settlement Trust, holds approximately 66% of AWI’s outstanding common shares. Armstrong's “Fourth Amended Plan of Reorganization, as Modified,” dated February 21, 2006, and confirmed by U.S. District Court Judge Eduardo Robreno in August 2006,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Armstrong World Industries, Form 8-K, Current Report, Filing Date Aug 18, 2006 )〕 become effective Oct. 2, 2006.〔 The Plan includes a comprehensive settlement resolving AWI’s asbestos liability by establishing and funding a trust to compensate all current and future asbestos personal injury claimants. The company had filed for reorganization December 6, 2000,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Armstrong World Industries, Form 8-K, Current Report, Filing Date Dec 7, 2000 )〕 with the federal bankruptcy court in Delaware for reorganization under Chapter 11 because pending asbestos injury claims appeared to exceed the value of the company, and were growing.
“In addition to resolving AWI’s asbestos liability, we used the time in Chapter 11 to restructure our flooring business to make it more competitive,” Mr. Lockhart said. “We made substantial improvements in our cost structure by closing several plants and streamlining our workforce in the U.S. We have also expanded capacity to manufacture wood flooring, broadened our product lines and improved product quality and customer service.”
On March 27, 2007, Armstrong World Industries, Inc. and NPM Capital N.V. entered into an agreement to sell Tapijtfabriek H. Desseaux N.V. and its subsidiaries, the principal operating companies in Armstrong’s European Textile and Sports Flooring business segment, to NPM Capital N.V.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Armstrong World Industries, Form 10-Q, Quarterly Report, Filing Date May 3, 2007 )〕 The sale was finalized in April 2007.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Armstrong World Industries, Form 8-K, Current Report, Filing Date Apr 3, 2007 )
On February 15, 2007, Armstrong World Industries, Inc. announced that it was initiating a review of its strategic alternatives.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Armstrong World Industries, Form 8-K, Current Report, Filing Date Feb 15, 2007 )
== History ==

In 1860, Thomas M. Armstrong, the son of Scottish-Irish immigrants from Derry, joined with John D. Glass to open a one-room shop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, carving bottle stoppers from cork by hand. Their first deliveries were made in a wheelbarrow. Armstrong was a business pioneer in some respects: he branded each cork he shipped as early as 1864, and soon was putting a written guarantee in each burlap bag of corks he shipped from his big new factory. The company grew to be the largest cork supplier in the world by the 1890s. The company incorporated in 1891.
Cork began being displaced by other closures, but the company introduced insulating corkboard and brick. In 1906, two years before he died, Thomas Armstrong concluded that the solid foundation of the future was covered with linoleum, and construction began on a new factory in a cornfield at the edge of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1909, Armstrong linoleum was first offered to the trade.
After corkboard, the logical move was to fiberboard, and then to ceiling board. Cork tile and linoleum led to vinyl flooring, then ceramic tile, laminate flooring and carpeting.
In 1917, Armstrong Cork signed with the Batton Company advertising agency, a relationship that continues to this day through their corporate descendants.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBDO Worldwide )
In 1998, Armstrong acquired Triangle Pacific Corp., a leading manufacturer of hardwood flooring and kitchen/bathroom cabinets.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Armstrong World Industries, Form 8-K, Current Report, Filing Date Jun 15, 1998 )
In 2009, Armstrong’s annual net Sales Total US$2.8Billion.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Armstrong World Industries, Form 10-K, Annual Report, Filing Date Feb 26, 2010 )
Armstrong Cabinets is no longer owned by Armstrong World Industries. The business was sold to American Industrial Partners on October 31, 2012.

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