Carpet Beck Dyeing

Flooring expert karl kramer explains the difference between solution dyed carpet and beck dyed nylon carpet.

Carpet beck dyeing.

With these methods carpet is dyed in a piece using a large beck or vat of dyestuffs and water. Here y solution dyed carpet will hold up better. Continuous dyeing applies the color directly to the carpet face by spraying or printing. The rise of continuous dyeing in carpet.

Beck dyeing is an excellent technique for dyeing carpet pieces or rolls. This is when the carpeting moves under a dye applicator which applies the coloring over 12 foot wide carpeting that has been sewn together. When the tufted carpet industry began to boom in the late 1950 s after world war ii exhaust beck dyeing was the only way to dye tufted carpet. While effective for the day it wasn t all that efficient.

Dyetech specialty chemicals are used in every field of carpet and textile dyeing and finishing. Beck dyeing or piece dyeing. Printing involves the application of colored dyestuffs using screens rollers or inkjets onto the face of the carpet. Beginning with fiber extrusion spinning and weaving yarn and space dyeing continuous and batch or beck carpet dyeing water oil and soil or stain resistance and throughout the manufacturing process until the floor covering or fabric is shipped.

Continuous dyeing is a similar process to beck dyeing but it involves running the carpet through several processes in addition to just the dye application. The carpet is placed in a large vat filled with dyes chemicals and water. It turns constantly on a reel inside the beck at an ideal rate of one revolution per minute so that dye may be applied evenly. This takes place after tufting but before other finishing processes.

The process used abundant resources and was extremely labor intensive.