NWFA/MFMA Hold Basics School in St. Louis

The NWFA and co-sponsor MFMA held a Wood Flooring Basics school at its St. Louis training facility on Sept. 11-14. The NWFA's Director of Technical Training Frank Kroupa led the instruction, along with these volunteer instructors:

• Galen Fitzel (3M)
• Cort Dunlap (Bamboo & Hardwood Inspections)
• Josh Neuberger (Basic Coatings)
• Matt Bingham (Clarke American Sanders)
• Roger Barker (Fortifiber Building Systems Group)
• Mark Long (Real Wood Floors)
• Adam Martin (Woodwise/Design Hardwood Products Inc.)
• Mike Rocher (Bona US)
• Kelly McCarthy (Glitsa, a division of Rudd Co.)
• Bob Sponamore (All Type Hardwood Floors)
• Bill Costello (DuraSeal)
• Jason Nieminski (Aacer Flooring)

These students completed the school and earned credits toward an NWFA degree:

• Daniel Held (Gateway Construction)
• Jose Silva (Master Tiler)
• Emily Boehmig (ELOF Hansson USA)
• Scotty Stevenson (Flour Hause)
• Moshe Schreiber, Yehuda Sasonkin (Tribeca Flooring)
• Gilmar Marcelino (Avalon)
• Vanderlei Carneiro
• Kristen Stensby, Jeremy Krug (Champion Floors)
• Kristina Smith (Pure Wood Studio)
• Eric Kurtz (Bostik)
• Ashley Schenfeld, Bobby Mohr (Bona US)
• Robert Lotzko (Sunshine Flooring Supply)
• Mark Woods (Ideal Floor Covering)
• Chas Farasyn (Nesheins)
• Ronald Gould (Inspect Solutions)
• Gary Bittner (Columbia Flooring)
• Karen Gross (MBD Floorcovering)
• Annamarie Rimkevicius (Buff and Coat)
• Ken Malsky (Malsky Hardwood Flooring)
• Taft Smithson (Sun Country Floors)
• Mark Vick (Basic Coatings)
• Leah Bostrom (3M)
• Larry Elkin (Applied Building Sciences)
• Jennifer Trumino (Mercer Abrasives)
• Chris Burgin (Lanham Hardwood Flooring)
• Tom Crowe (Mastercraft Flooring)
• Dominic Kam (Perth Bamboo Flooring)
• J.G. Kelley (Kenny's Tile)

Last, these companies served as Partners in Education for this school:

• 3M (St. Paul)
• Aacer Flooring (Peshtigo, Wis.)
• Bamboo & Hardwood Inspections (Granite Falls, Wash.)
• Basic Coatings (Toledo, Ohio)
• Clarke American Sanders (Plymouth, Minn.)
• Delmhorst Instrument Co. (Towaco, N.J.)
• Fortifiber Building Systems Group (Fernley, Nev.)
• Goodwin Company
• Lignomat USA Ltd.
• Maple Ridge Hand Scraped (Livonia, Mich.)
• Peace Flooring Co. Inc. (Magnolia, Ark.)
• Powernail Company Inc. (Lake Zurich, Ill.)
• Real Wood Floors (West Plains, Mo.)
• Somerset Wood Products Inc. (Somerset, Ky.)
• Wagner Meters (Rogue River, Ore.)
• Waterlox Coatings Corporation (Cleveland)
• Woodwise/Design Hardwood Products (Redmond, Wash.)
• Bona US (Aurora, Colo.)
• Glitsa, a division of Rudd Company (Seattle, Wash.)
• Dura Seal (Chagrin Falls, Ohio)
• All Type Hardwood Flooring (O'Fallon, Mo.)