Article Number: 3915
Mannington's breakthrough technology turns carpet into resilient flooring
1. CARPET TlLE TRIM & RECLAIMED CARPET VIA LOOP: The production of Mannington’s modular carpet tiles generates strips of excess material called frame scrap from tiles being punched out of larger sheets of carpet. Mannington also reclaims commercial carpet via its reclamation program known as LOOP.
2. GROUND CARPET TILE: Mannington sends the reclaimed carpet and the production frame scrap through a grinding process, producing a mixture of fluff from the face of the carpet and chunks from the carpet backing.
3. AGGLOMERATED CARPET TILE: This mixture is heated and pressurized into dense, cord-shaped pieces. These pieces are ground into chips.
4. PELLETS: The chips are used in place of virgin raw materials to make the pellets for RelayRE.
RelayRE: The biggest obstacle in recycling carpet is taking it apart. Some recycling programs exist for the individual parts, but the layers are too well attached to take advantage of some of these programs. That’s why Mannington researched and found a method to recycle the entire carpet and turn it into both commercial carpet backing (Infinity RE) and resilient flooring.
Specifically for RelayRE, the carpet is ground up then combined with other components to create a 6-foot sheet product with 35% recycled content: 20% is post-consumer via LOOP and 15% is pre-consumer (post-industrial) from carpet manufacturing.
Additionally, RelayRE is made in the U.S. in Salem, N.J. The manufacturing plant is registered to both ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 demonstrating excellent quality and environmental management systems. RelayRE meets FloorScore (and CHPS 01350) demonstrating excellent indoor air quality characteristics. It is also certified at the gold level to NSF-332 (2007) “Sustainability Assessment for Resilient Flooring.” Lastly, the 35% total recycled content claim is third-party verified by First Environment, Boonton, N.J.
2. GROUND CARPET TILE: Mannington sends the reclaimed carpet and the production frame scrap through a grinding process, producing a mixture of fluff from the face of the carpet and chunks from the carpet backing.
3. AGGLOMERATED CARPET TILE: This mixture is heated and pressurized into dense, cord-shaped pieces. These pieces are ground into chips.
4. PELLETS: The chips are used in place of virgin raw materials to make the pellets for RelayRE.
RelayRE: The biggest obstacle in recycling carpet is taking it apart. Some recycling programs exist for the individual parts, but the layers are too well attached to take advantage of some of these programs. That’s why Mannington researched and found a method to recycle the entire carpet and turn it into both commercial carpet backing (Infinity RE) and resilient flooring.
Specifically for RelayRE, the carpet is ground up then combined with other components to create a 6-foot sheet product with 35% recycled content: 20% is post-consumer via LOOP and 15% is pre-consumer (post-industrial) from carpet manufacturing.
Additionally, RelayRE is made in the U.S. in Salem, N.J. The manufacturing plant is registered to both ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 demonstrating excellent quality and environmental management systems. RelayRE meets FloorScore (and CHPS 01350) demonstrating excellent indoor air quality characteristics. It is also certified at the gold level to NSF-332 (2007) “Sustainability Assessment for Resilient Flooring.” Lastly, the 35% total recycled content claim is third-party verified by First Environment, Boonton, N.J.
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