British Columbia Foreign Policy

British Columbia is known for policy alternatives.  Foreign and domestic policy issues need to be addressed so we can fully understand our nations stance on policy issues.  Below are some recent news and current event articles on policy issues.  Please read and feel free to comment on the issues at hand. 

Carpet Manufacturing in Canada  

                Living in North Georgia, where most of the income of the population comes from manufacturing carpet, including my parents, it is important to me to understand how the process works.  It is a very detailed process that has evolved into using mainly machines to produce. Although most carpet is produced in Dalton, Georgia there is still a lot of carpet manufactured in Canada. 

                90% of the carpet produced today is made by using a process called tufting. This process helped speed the production of carpet, as well as making it affordable for more consumers.  Tufting is a process of stitching pile yarns into a backing material. This process is also similar to embroidery, it is pushed in and out of the backing material to form loops on the face of the backing.  Once the loops are formed, adhesive is applied to the back to hold the yarn, and then a second backing is placed on top to make the carpet more stable. 

Berber Carpet
Plush Carpet
Frieze Carpet
Cheap Carpet

                A second type of tufting that is used to produce carpet today is modern tufting.  Modern tufting is  produced with the use of several high-powered machines. First, you have the gauge rate, which is the amount of distance between each tufting needles.  Next, you have the stitch rate, is the number of tufts along the length of carpet.  Lastly, you will have a pile height, which the height of the pile from the surface of the primary backing to the top of the tuft, pile height is important because the lower the pile height the more sturdy the carpet will be.

                A third type of manufacturing process for carpet is carpet twist level.  The higher the twist level the better performance the carpet will have.  If the carpet has a low twist level it is more likely to come untwisted, which will result in a matted appearance for the carpet.  Twist level is measured by the inch, so a higher quality carpet may have 7 to 9 turns per an inch, a lower quality may only have 3-4 turns per an inch.

Apartment Carpet
Commercial Carpet
Wholesale Carpet

                Each type of tufting is very effective in quality, and should be a great investment for any home.  Each process is created by the use of several thousands of hard-working individuals who pride themselves on creating a great flooring to make your house a home.  In the years to come, manufactures will probably evolve the processes into a more creative innovative way to produce carpet more efficiently, but in hopes jobs will be saved as well.