Wellman Recycle Carpet
Accumulation of those unused carpets threatens to put a crimp in wellman s collection and recycling of nylon 66.
Wellman recycle carpet. Wellman advanced materials mainly via its post consumer ecolon product line has been a key participant in the automotive industry s recent shift towards green manufacturing. In the meantime find a carpet recycling facility near you with our recycle center locator. E colon a brand of wellman engineering resins is a unique nylon compound produced via wellman s patented process of turning post carpet recycled pcr fiber into nylon resin and then into high quality and consistent nylon compounds used in some of the most demanding applications in automotive and other industries the company s compounding history goes back 50 years to the mid 1960s. Find recycling guides for other materials.
A shortage of nylon 6 carpet in europe may offer a solution. Post industrial plastic is extremely cheap and in many cases wellman buys post consumer carpet from dc foam recycle at a loss he said. That left wellman without an outlet for the nylon 6 carpets it takes in. Care carpet america recovery effort is a nonprofit organization working to develop the infrastructure needed to recycle carpet efficiently across the u s.