Carpet Stocks List
Symbol | Grade | Name | % Change | |
---|---|---|---|---|
TILE | A | Interface, Inc. | 33.03 | |
BERY | A | Berry Plastics Group, Inc. | 0.18 | |
WDFC | A | WD-40 Company | 0.89 | |
SEE | A | Sealed Air Corporation | 1.13 | |
CTAS | B | Cintas Corporation | -0.09 | |
RPM | B | RPM International Inc. | -0.53 | |
HD | B | Home Depot, Inc. (The) | -0.29 | |
ABM | B | ABM Industries Incorporated | 0.06 | |
VVI | B | Viad Corp | -0.05 | |
CHD | B | Church & Dwight Company, Inc. | 4.84 |
Related Industries: Aerospace & Defense Business Services Chemicals Home Furnishings & Fixtures Home Improvement Stores Household & Personal Products Packaging & Containers Rubber & Plastics Specialty Chemicals Specialty Retail Textile Manufacturing Waste Management
Symbol | Grade | Name | Weight | |
---|---|---|---|---|
IEDI | B | iShares Evolved U.S. Discretionary Spending ETF | 13.02 | |
PSCC | D | PowerShares S&P SmallCap Consumer Staples Portfolio | 9.11 | |
XLY | A | SPDR Select Sector Fund - Consumer Discretionary | 8.29 | |
RTH | A | Market Vectors Retail ETF | 8.13 | |
PSCM | D | PowerShares S&P SmallCap Materials Portfolio | 7.39 |
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A carpet is a textile floor covering typically consisting of an upper layer of pile attached to a backing. The pile was traditionally made from wool, but, since the 20th century, synthetic fibers such as polypropylene, nylon or polyester are often used, as these fibers are less expensive than wool. The pile usually consists of twisted tufts which are typically heat-treated to maintain their structure. The term "carpet" is often used interchangeably with the term "rug", although the term "carpet" can be applied to a floor covering that covers an entire house, whereas a "rug" is generally no bigger than a single room, and traditionally does not even span from one wall to another, and is typically not even attached as part of the floor.
Carpets are used for a variety of purposes, including insulating a person's feet from a cold tile or concrete floor, making a room more comfortable as a place to sit on the floor (e.g., when playing with children or as a prayer rug), reducing sound from walking (particularly in apartment buildings) and adding decoration or colour to a room. Carpets can be made in any colour by using differently dyed fibers. Carpets can have many different types of patterns and motifs used to decorate the surface. In the 2000s, carpets are used in industrial and commercial establishments such as retail stores and hotels and in private homes. In the 2010s, a huge range of carpets and rugs are available at many price and quality levels, ranging from inexpensive, synthetic carpets that are mass-produced in factories and used in commercial buildings to costly hand-knotted wool rugs which are used in private homes of wealthy families.
Carpets can be produced on a loom quite similar to woven fabric, made using needle felts, knotted by hand (in oriental rugs), made with their pile injected into a backing material (called tufting), flatwoven, made by hooking wool or cotton through the meshes of a sturdy fabric or embroidered. Carpet is commonly made in widths of 12 feet (3.7 m) and 15 feet (4.6 m) in the US, 4 m and 5 m in Europe. Since the 20th century, where necessary for wall-to-wall carpet, different widths of carpet can be seamed together with a seaming iron and seam tape (formerly it was sewn together) and fixed to a floor over a cushioned underlay (pad) using nails, tack strips (known in the UK as gripper rods), adhesives, or occasionally decorative metal stair rods. Wall-to-wall carpet is distinguished from rugs or mats, which are loose-laid floor coverings, as wall-to-wall carpet is fixed to the floor and covers a much larger area.
The GoodWeave labelling scheme used throughout Europe and North America assures that child labour has not been used: importers pay for the labels, and the revenue collected is used to monitor centres of production and educate previously exploited children.
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