Ninety Percent of Yarn for Carpets Domestically Produced Inside Iran

Reza Tavana, the deputy executive director of Machine-made Carpet Innovation Center and Director of the Specialized Laboratory of Machine-made Carpet and Textile Physics at Islamic Azad University-Kashan Branch made the remarks while explaining to journalists on their visit to the lab.

He said that their laboratory has offered three different levels of services and standards that have to be met by machine-made carpet manufacturers.

He explained that the fist standard that is mandatory standard of machine-made carpet is related to the consumer rights, which is the features that are written on the back of the machine-made carpets to inform the consumers about the properties of the carpet.

“At a higher level, we have the incentive standard for machine-made carpets, which is the addition of the standard seal. Any company that wants to export carpets or use the standard sign at a higher level must meet that standard and its related features, on which we perform laboratory tests,” Tavana said.

The carpet laboratory deputy director further said that the third service they provide has to do with giving advisory expert viewpoints on the carpets when they are asked for by a court in a legal case.

Tavana added the Kashan Islamic Azad University specialized laboratory is now in the process of obtaining ISO 17025 and will be the first university laboratory that has obtained such a standard in Iran.

According to him, experiments related to textile physics include such things as moisture, conductivity, friction and electricity tests, which are defined under the subject of textile physics.

According to him, one of the equipment at the laboratory is for testing the compressibility of the machine-made carpets. He explained more that actually in this experiment, the pressure exercised to the carpet under the sofa and other heavy things is measured and the carpet resistance is tested.

He went on to note that the carpet stability against light and washing, carpet stability against carpet solvents, are other tests that are performed on the carpets.

“The tests related to color stability against shampooing are among the other tests carried out at the laboratory,” he further said.

“The ISO guidelines are very strict and only a handful of carpet laboratories have now received that international standard,” Tavana further noted.

 “Most of the machine-made carpets inside Iran are of made acrylic yarn, less than 10% of which is imported, and certain grades of this yarn are imported from abroad, especially from Turkey, but the rest of the yarns used are produced in Kashan. Polyacrylic fibers are also supplied in Isfahan and that company has the capability to produce 40% of the acrylic needed in Iran, but this capacity has yet to be materialized,” he added. 

 “The so-called silk carpets are actually made of polyester fibers, and 100% of its fibers are produced domestically and even its polymer supply chain is inside the country. Although these types of carpets are lower-priced and come out with more beautiful patterns, they are less durable,” Tavana went on to say. 

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