About Floor and wall coverings:

• Floor & Wall covering items can be classified as following:-
• PVC flooring & Printed PVC flooring
• Non-woven carpets
• Woolen carpets
• Carpets / floor coverings of polypropylene, polyester, etc
• Generally polypropylene, wool and acrylic carpets are used for floor coverings.
• Although, as soon as the customers start on to look for reasonably priced carpets that were easy to care and maintain at domicile, the trends started shifting towards polyester.
• Diverse advantages such as higher bulk, strength, resilience, color, clarity, fastness, easy care, affordability and longevity have stimulated the domination for polyester carpets.
• At the present times, wall-to-wall carpets are also being used extensively which are made up by non-woven needle punched process. For dust free environment and good insulation against noise wall to wall carpet are foremost.

Product characteristics and applications

• Floor and wall coverings applications are:-
• 1 mm thickness: Can be used in Residential Areas & Study Centers.
• 1.5 mm thickness: Computer Rooms, Departmental Stores,
• 2 mm thickness: Industrial Areas & Electronics Rooms
• The Vinyl flooring is manufactured  in a range of designs i.e. mosaic, floral, granite, ceramic, wood, marble, etc. to suit several applications in Offices, Nursing Homes, Airport, Bank, Home, Hotels, Hospitals, Railways, café, Shopping Complexes, etc.
• Commercial flooring in 2mm thickness is designed to suit medium and heavy traffic areas like Hospitals, Offices, Airports, Shopping Complexes, Railways, Libraries, etc.
• The non-woven wall-to-wall carpets and floor coverings are also increasingly being used in market. These carpets are made of PP and are tufted.

Raw-materials:

• Typically the non-woven floor and wall coverings are made of polypropylene.
• The PVC Vinyl flooring is also extensively used now.

Technology used

• For the non-woven floor and wall coverings, needle-punching process is used. Needle loom is the key machinery for manufacturing these nonwovens.
• Coating