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Vinyl: How It’s Made

While home consists of what’s under your roof, such as family, friends and furnishings, don’t forget what’s under your feet. Floor coverings also have a huge influence on your home and home life. In this section we explain how vinyl is made. This information can be very advantageous because it enables you to understand the product’s materials and evaluate its performance aspects: why certain vinyl floors wear better and longer.

Rotogravure Construction:

Most commonly used method for making residential vinyl floors
Offers unlimited possibilities in pattern and design
Process involves a print cylinder that spins around while the vinyl’s core layer (called the gel coat) passes underneath
Cylinder systematically prints various colored ink dyes to create the pattern
After the print dyes are set a clear wearlayer is applied to the surface
Appearance retention depends on the durability of the wearlayer

Wearlayer:

Absolutely critical to the performance of your vinyl floor
Thickness varies with each product collection
Generally measured in mils
Thickness of a mil is about the same as a page in a phone book
More expensive vinyl floors have thicker wearlayers

Performance Characteristics:

Easy to clean
Stays looking like-new
Resists staining from normal household products
Doesn’t show scratches easily
Easy to clean up spills
When a floor begins to look old, it is caused by hundreds of fine hairline scratches in the wearlayer

Vinyl: How It’s Made

Rotogravure Construction:

Wearlayer:

Performance Characteristics:

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