Did you know…

• Frank T. Peters, president of Mohawk Industries, is originally from Shamokin, PA.?
• The American carpet industry began in 1791.
• Catherine Evans-Whitener is credited to giving birth to the tufted carpet industry from her method of creating tufted bedspreads in the early 1900’s.
• Erastus Bigelow founded America’s first carpet mill in 1825.
• Prior to 1950 over 90% of carpet was woven.
• DuPont invented nylon in the 1930’s and the name is a combination of the words “New York” and “London”.
• Dalton, Georgia is known as the “Carpet Capital of the World”.
• The name Berber comes from the Moroccan tribe meaning “saddle weaving”
• ScotchGard protection first appeared on carpet in 1973.
• The most popular carpet color is beige.
• On average, people change their carpet every 7 years.
• The yearly US carpet production is well in excess of one billion square yards.
• One billion square yards amounts to roughly: a 12 feet wide piece of carpet wrapping around the equator six times.
• The largest carpeted floor space in America was the World Trade Center Towers.
• Mohawk is the largest industrial recycler in America.
• On average, 30 plastic bottles are recycled to make one square yard of Mohawk EVERSTRAND™ carpet.
• DuPont™ Sorona® is made with 37% corn sugars, therefore every 7 yards of carpet made with DuPont Sorona saves about 1 gallon of gas.
• The dimensions of the red carpet at the Oscars: 500 feet long, 33 feet wide.
• Ceramic Tile was invented more than 6,000 years ago, and tiles dating back to 4th century b.c. survive to this day.
• In an average 6-room household, 40 pounds of dust will fall in one year.