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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.)
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