Top Ten Tips on Carpet Care

So you’ve bought yourself a new carpet. It’s now in place and looks just right. Don’t deny it, you love it. But here’s the catch. It may seem perfect now, with that glorious gleam and luxuriously soft surface–the best experience …

Tai Ping Achieves NSF Platinum Certification

Platinum is an extremely precious metal. It is indeed an exceedingly rare element of high value that is the object of much cupidity. Not far behind in terms of worth and want is gold. For the American National Standards Institute …

Texas Hold’em

To that first point, Tai Ping has made admirable strides to reduce even excess dust from escaping its manufacturing process. As for reuse, its subsidiary Carpets Inter exemplifies the principle: The company will remove the old carpeting from any Thailand-based …

The Wooly Mammoth in the Room

It’s not easy being green. Don’t roll your eyes; there really is truth to the saying.

Take wool. On the one hand, it’s an ecological no-brainer: How many biobased renewable materials do you know that can fend off fire?…

Glo-bah-lization

It’s noteworthy that wool is a high-performing biobased material. Even more so, because Tai Ping’s wool comes from farms that are becoming ever greener. But what about the fact that wool must be shipped to Tai Ping’s factories and the …

Wool 201: Not All Sheep are Created Equal

Sorry, Dolly. The pasture isn’t necessarily a democratic place.

Just as the Nordic countries have their share of blonds or Italy its signature summertime bronze, so sheep from different parts of the world boast different qualities. In New Zealand, …

Why Wool: A Primer

Seen underneath a microscope, wool may remind you of your third-grade class’ pet iguana. Each wool fibre has a scaly quality seemingly at odds with its soft touch.

But it’s that microscopic texture that contributes to wool’s performance as a …

Introducing NSF-140

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The Most Frequently Asked Question

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