Everything You Need to Know About Carpet Backing

A carpet backing is critical to its performance throughout its lifetime. A quality carpet tile with backing will maintain its durability and retain its appearance. The right carpet backing will not only ensure the carpet tile remains dimensionally stable and flat on the floor, it can also provide acoustic, insulation and sustainability benefits. This is due to its construction as primary backing is compiled with several supportive layers making it suitable for a range of high traffic areas.Different environments call for different carpet backings and making the right choice is an important part of the carpet specification process.As a commercial carpet backing manufacturer, Yuzhimu offers a range of innovative, practical and sustainable carpet backing options for all types of commercial environments. 

What is carpet backing?

Carpet backing is best described as the underside of a carpet tile. It’s designed to make the carpet more durable adding strength and stability, and it also secures the tufts of carpet together. Carpet backing normally consists of several layers combined; including primary backing, which acts as the foundation to hold the yarn in place and secondary backing layers which provide extra strength and comfort amongst other properties for best performance.

What is secondary backing on carpets?

Secondary backing is a second layer alongside the primary backing on the underside of a carpet tile. Secondary backing acts as extra support for your carpet, ensuring longevity in busy commercial areas. Milliken carpets offer several layers of backing, providing premium support for sound insulation and acoustics in offices, hotels and open-plan commercial settings.

What is the best type of carpet backing?

The best type of carpet backing depends on your personal specifications. In cases where there is a requirement for additional performance characteristics, such as design projects then premium cushion backing is ideal. Yuzhimu’s bicomponent nonwoven backing offers PET+PA6 or PET+PP nonwoven backing. PA6 acts as a binder, while PET ensures stability. Using two materials with different melting points, each intersection point is connected together through thermal bonding. It is used as primary and secondary backing