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Carpet Design & Construction
Carpet Construction, Carpet Australia – Superior carpet construction process
Carpet, Carpet Construction, Carpet Australia – Invista carpet certification standards
Stainmaster® Carpet is made in Australia by Godfrey Hirst and Feltex Australia under license to INVISTA. In doing so the carpet must meet strict certification standards set by INVISTA. Only when these standards are met can a carpet be labelled a Stainmaster® Carpet.
Here are the steps involved in the construction of Stainmaster®
Carpet:
Bulked Continuous Filament (BCF)
Continuous strands of nylon are formed into yarn. They are also texturized to increase their bulk and to change from straight into kinked
or curled fibre.
Twist
Each carpet fibre is wound around itself to make the carpet pile more resilient. The tighter the twist, the more the carpet will resist
crushing, matting and changes in texture.
Heat Setting
After the fibre is twisted, it is treated with heat to lock in the twist. The result: carpet fibers that won't easily unravel or crush
under heavy foot traffic.
Tufting
The heat-set fibre is fed through needles and then stitched or tufted into the primary carpet backing. The density of a carpet is determined
by how much yarn is used and how close the tufts are to one another.
Dyeing
The tufted carpet is saturated with liquid dye then treated with a fixation solution and dried.
The Advanced Teflon® Repel System
The dyed carpet is now saturated with an anti-stain treatment.
Then it undergoes a fixation process and is dried again. Next,
the Advanced Teflon® Repel system is applied. The result is carpet that
has the long lasting ability to repel dirt and resist stains.
Carpet Grading
The ACCS is a voluntary industry labeling and grading scheme for carpet. The ACCS has been designed to provide buyers of carpet (both residential
and commercial) with easy to understand information on carpet quality and performance.
