Infloormation

The challenge was to find a replacement for silk. The United States was in a wartime economy, in the middle of WWII, and we were running out of silk to make parachutes and other military textiles. Embracing this challenge, the chemical and textile engineers at DuPont invented a synthetic replacement for silk, which came to be called nylon. Because of its strength, durability and flexibility, nylon fibers found their way into a host of different markets, including commercial and residential carpet manufacturing.

60 years later, the essential chemical structures of nylon remain exactly the same as they were in their wartime debut. What have made dramatic changes are the processes for dyeing, constructing and finishing carpet products. Decades of improvement in these technologies means significant gains in the way nylon carpets perform on your floors. Fortunately, these improvements extend to both cut-pile (plush) and loop pile carpet constructions.

Contributing significantly to nylon’s success as the world’s most specified fiber for carpet is its characteristic colorfastness. In particular, solution-dyed nylon – where the polymer is colored prior to its extrusion into fiber – is almost completely impervious to the effects of exposure to direct sunlight or bleach! Even when the fiber is dyed after extrusion, today’s advanced technologies for stain and soil protection keep nylon extremely colorfast.

Once constructed, installed and maintained properly, you can expect your nylon carpet to retain its original shape and appearance for many years. In fact, nylon carpet will never actually wear out . . . it just gets ugly once its useful life ends.