Greenline Carpets from Condor

Condor Carpets are launching an interesting new collection of carpets to be known as the ‘Greenline’ collection. Why do I say interesting you may ask? well, it’s kind of made from corn. Corn? corn??

I’ll let Condor blind you with their science:

“Condor Carpets uses the processed polymer Sorona® from DuPont in its new Greenline collection. Sorona® consists of 100% PTT polymer of which 37% is extracted from corn sugar.

During the production of Sorona® 30% less energy is required and the pollution emitted is 63% less compared to polyamide.”

Ah, so it’s down to DuPont, the masters of nylon. Good quality nylon carpets are very much missing in the UK market and if this new fibre/fiber has DuPont’s name on it, then it’s likely to be top notch.

There is a great video on the Greenline website in which a jolly Belgian-accented chap gets all excited by his wonderful new product. I shouldn’t scoff, it’s bound to be better than the endless identikit polyprop twists we see season after season. One of the things I notice when I head Stateside (okay so I’m weird and I go into carpet and flooring shops when I’m on holiday) is just how superior their lovely nylon carpets feel to our tired old polyprop – somebody really needs to address the lack of nylon carpets in the UK.

Anyway,Greenline promises softness, easy care and durability and let’s hope it delivers. I can’t wait to see some sampling.

(Originally posted on the 6th February 2010)