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Carpets - Wool Pile, Wool Blend and Modular Wool


Product Image Product Name Name of Manufacturer Functional Purpose of Product Data Quality 3.1.3 Warrenty for color fastness (years) 3.1.4 Product Warrenty (years) 3.1.5 Carpet is modular 3.1.6 Treated against moth and beetle attack to the minimum requirements of the ACCS or Woolmark/ Woolmark Blend E10 specification, or the Wool Interiors specification 3.2.1
Wool Scours

Heavy Effluent is Treated
3.2.2 Rinse water effluent is covered by a resource consent, and the discharge when fully mixed does not raise the Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) level of the water body by more than 2.5mg/l (see standard for definition of fully mixed) 3.2.3 Wool grease content in the primary effluent, before discharge or treatment (kg/tonne wool scoured) 3.2.4 Water Use (l/ton wool scoured) 3.2.5 Energy Use, excluding by water treatment facilities (GJ/ton wool scoured) 3.2.6 Does not use alkyl phenol-based detergents 3.2.7 Is not insect resist treated with synthetic pyrethroids 3.3.1
Yarn

COD Level of Dye-House Effluent (kg/ton of fiber dyed)
3.3.2A Insect-Treatment(s) Used
If yes - List names and quantity
3.3.2B Pyrethrim or bifenthrin Insecticide (total mg/L present in factory effluent) 3.3.3 Spinning Lubricants Used (% of weight of wool) 3.3.4A The following are not used: after-chroming dying, Fluorochemical finishes, Sulphonated phenolic stainblockers 3.3.4B Chromium Content in Effluent from Dye House (ppm) 3.3.4C Scouring Surfactants are biodegradable 3.3.4D Organophosphate Pesticide Content (ppm) 3.3.4E Organic chlorine pesticide content (ppm) 3.4
Cotton

Any cotton used in manufacturing of wool carpet is unbleached
3.5.1
Finished Product

TVOC emission rate (mg/m2 per hour, after 14 days)
3.5.2 Complies to Carpet and Rug Institute Green Plus Air Emissions Label, and/or low emissions (<0.05mg/m2/hr) for the following: Fomaldehyde, Acetaldehyde, Benzene, Caprolactam, 2 – Ethylhexanoic Acid, 1 – Methyl – 2 Pyrroldinone, Naphthalene, Nonanal, 3.6.1
Adhesives

Instructions recommend installation adhesives which are Water based, pressure sensitive, low VOC.
3.6.2 VOC of adhesives at most 5% by weight of the final product excluding water 3.7.1 Customers are offered a service for rotation and replacement of worn tiles 3.7.2 Manufacturers have a take-back (return) system at end of life for the product, or active research into implementing one 3.8 Compliant to all site emission permits 3.9 High standard of social & worker obligations
product photo Carpet Cavalier Bremworth
12 or 15 12 or 15 No Yes No Yes 19.56 Below 30,000 l/t Less than 4.0 GJ Yes Yes Less than 30 This treatment is carried out to the requirements of the Woolmark/ Woolmark Blend E10 specification. No insect resistance treatment is applied during the scouring process. Below 0.2 mg/L Less than 3% Yes 0 Yes 0.3 none No Below 0.5 mg/m2 Complies Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes

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