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If you simply selected your carpet based on looks alone, SmartStrand would be an obvious choice. But your home demands a carpet that is tough, resilient, and able to withstand the rigors of household action.
In addition to everything your family will put it through, your carpet must support furniture and furnishings while still maintaining its luxurious appearance.
At Mohawk, we put our SmartStrand through extensive wear-testing because we know your carpet requires the highest level of durability.
Thanks to Triexta, the new standard in carpet fiber, we can offer you just that.
SmartStrands Triumphs in Durability
Certified testing includes a “walk test” of more than 20,000 footsteps to simulate an entire year of foot traffic over SmartStrand Triexta, nylon carpet, and PET polyester carpet of different weights. The results by and far demonstrated the superior performance of Triexta’s resiliency and crush resistance.
Proving durability carpet with hexapod tests and other such experiments in a laboratory doesn’t really matter when it’s in your home. So Mohawk and DuPont decided to put SmartStrand through the ultimate test: The living room of a Black Rhinoceros. The SmartStrand Rhino Challenge really shows how durable the carpet really is.
SmartStrand, nylon, and PET carpets were also analyzed in a Modified Hexapod Test, a mechanical test that simulates the aforementioned walk test in a condensed amount of time.
This demanding assessment proved that SmartStrand performs better than PET and comparable to or better than nylon in even the most strenuous conditions.
These results confirm that we are giving our customers the best product available, an improved option over both nylon and PET polyester carpet.
It also reaffirms a fact that we’ve always known — when it comes to durability, SmartStrand is just better!
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