Synthetic Fiber Carpet

NylonThe fiber nylon was introduced first by the DuPontChemical Company in 1938. Several years later, aftera great deal of development, nylon became the firstsynthetic fiber to be used in the entire carpetingindustry.The first 3 generations of fiber experienced manyproblems with the worst being staining. The 4thgeneration fiber of nylon had a mill applied coatingthat solved a majority of the