Research

Got links to look into locations of manufacturers of my healthy alternatives to carpet. 

http://www.amtilestone.com/manufacturers.html

This website showed me all the ceramic tile manufacturers.

Dal-Tile 

* Contacted via email about their seven manufacturing plants within the United States to see if any are  in Kentucky

Did find one manfacturing plant in Kentucky dedicated to making ceramic tiles, which is: Florida Tile Inc. in Lawrenceburg, KY.

Also I contacted via email Karen Lefler, a worker for KY Cabinet for Economic Development in the department of Office of Research and Public Affairs.  Found her information from www.ThinkKentucky.com.  She recommended that I search the Think Kentucky website, which I had already done and didn't find anything.  Also, she said I should check out North American IndustryClassification System (NAICS).  I have checked out the website and got the codes for the different flooring materials under the category of manufacturing from the U.S. Census Bureau.  There wasn't any code for bamboo or certified wood.

* Linoleum 326192 (none within KY)

* Ceramic Tiles 327122 (2 within KY)

* Cork 321999 (31 within KY, but that is under the category of "All other miscellaneous wood product manufacturing.  So isn't just referring to cork flooring manufacturing)

I went and contacted via email the Census Bureau departmarts of NAICS and Economics asking if they would be able to give me the locations of the 2 ceramic tile and 31 cork products manfacturing plants within Kentucky.

With cork flooring, found website http://www.floorfacts.com/corkfloors.asp with many cork flooring manufacturers listed.  Just need to contact them about their locations.