Triexta Ptt Carpet

Ptt triexta polyester march 17 2014 in flooring by thais sousa.

Triexta ptt carpet.

Lifeproof with petproof technology pretty penny color earth tone pattern 12 ft. Triexta is a relatively new carpet fiber to the market that you ll see called several different names. However because the nylon fiber itself is more costly to produce than the triexta fiber a given nylon carpet will likely be more expensive than a triexta carpet of equivalent quality. Triexta carpet is engineered to resist stains not on its coating but within its very fiber.

Triexta is much newer and it s simply impossible to say a triexta based carpet can last 30 years or more since the fiber itself didn t exist that long ago. The fiber has been officially recognized by the u s. To prove its point mohawk industries let 10 large zoo animals and 43 000 zoo visitors trample on smartstrand for two weeks. Sorona smartstrand or ptt are all different names for triexta.

This is the first extension that the ftc has approved for textiles in five years and the first extension for residential carpeting in 50 years since nylon was established under the textile fiber act in. Therefore triexta is a serious fiber and its characteristics and cleaning procedures can t be ignored. Polytrimethylene terephthalate ptt was first synthezided and patented in 1941. Triexta fiber polytrimethylene terephthalate properties.

Triexta has been primarily limited to the residential market but may soon enter the commercial market. Triexta is currently produced exclusively by dupont under the brand name sorona so you may hear the names triexta and sorona used interchangeably. Environment the vast majority of triexta in the marketplace is sold under mohawk s smartstrand label which features rapidly renewable corn glucose in place of petroleum up to 37 percent. Some would say that there is not enough difference between polyester and triexta to merit distinction.

Ptt that s polytrimethylene terephthalate trexita for your carpet gurus is a basic carpet fiber made from polyester carpet fiber and by 1998 all the bugs were fixed and ppt could be commercially produced. For now the primary manufacturer of triexta carpet is mohawk under the name smartstrand. Henceforth ptt is to be called by the generic name triexta and no longer designated under the polyester classification. Triexta was invented by dupont the same company responsible for the invention of nylon fiber.

That said based on all evidence from existing carpets triexta does seem to be of equivalent durability to a same grade nylon carpet which means both are likely to be equally resistant to high foot traffic. Federal trade commission and named triexta it is a thermoplastic polyester fiber that can be spun into yarns that are used extensively in the carpet industry. Carpet 3 89 sq.