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BioCel & EnviroCel Attached Cushion Carpet Backing
Acoustical Properties
Carpets with BioCel® or EnvirCel™ polyurethane cushioned backings demonstrate enhanced acoustical and sound absorbing properties when compared with hard surface products, and even broadloom products with conventional backing.

BioCel Cushion & Laminate
BioBased Polymers
BioBased polymers are being incorporated into several polyurethane backings processed at Universal Textile Technologies including BioCel® polyurethane carpet backings. Beyond this effort, UTT is integrating a percentage of post-industrial recycled polyurethane into the precoat polymer of all polyurethane backings they manufacture.

BioCel Cushion & Laminate
Carpet Backing Specifications
Performance-in-use characteristics for the BioCel® Cushion and Laminate polyurethane carpet backings including backing density, compression set, compression resistance, cushion thickness and delamination.

		BioCel & EnviroCel Polyurethane Carpet Backing Dry Soil Penetration Unlike conventional latex backing, BioCel® and EnvirCel™ polyurethane carpet backings provide dry soil resistance between the carpet and the secondary backing. By impeding dry soil penetration to the subfloor, you reduce potential maintenance and hygienic problems.

		BioCel & EnviroCel Polyurethane Carpet Backing Eliminating Distractions Carpet with polyurethane cushioned carpet backing serves as an effective noise reducer by minimizing the sound of foot traffic, providing effective absorption of airborne sound, and reducing sound transmission to rooms below.

		BioCel & EnviroCel Polyurethane Carpet Backing Environmental Responsibility As early as 1989, the Carpet & Rug Industry (CRI) funded research on the emission rates of carpet products. It has been determined that initial VOC (volatile organic compounds) emissions from carpet products are generally quite low, especially when compared with other interior products.

BioCel Attached Cushion
Ergonomic Benefits - Comfort Underfoot
BioCel® polyurethane cushioned technology provides inherent ergonomic characteristics that directly impact worker and occupancy comfort levels, perhaps as great as any other interior product.

BioCel Polyurethane Carpet Backing
Ergonomic Choice in Carpet Backing
Ergonomics in interior spaces is a vital business issue in today's competitive marketplace, creating an avenue for the designer or specifier to contribute to the client's bottom line. In the case of floor covering, the up front investment for improved ergonomics holds the potential for a productivity payback that accrues over time.

BioCel LXT-18
Performance Description
Specifically engineered for use in public spaces that receive heavy foot and roller traffic, BioCel® LXT-18 is designed for hospitals, airports, banks, hotels and casinos. It can be applied to all styles and constructions, including multilevel tufted graphics, woven, and Axministers.

Shimming Procedures
Attached Cushion Carpets
On occasion, attached cushion carpets will have variation at the seams where one side of the carpet is slightly higher that the other side. If this condition occurs, the following procedure will help improve the seam appearance.

		BioCel & EnviroCel Cushion & Laminate Installation Instructions Carpets with UTT polyurethane carpet backings are installed by conventional commercial broadloom techniques and require no special tools or materials. BioCel® and EnvirCel™ polyurethane carpet backings have a non-woven outer surface.

		BioCel & EnviroCel Polyurethane Carpet Backing Open Cell or Closed Cell Marketers of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) cushion products frequently promote the attributes of closed cell configuration, as contrasted with the open cell polyurethane chemistry of the BioCel® and EnvirCel™ carpet backing.

		BioCel & EnviroCel Polyurethane Carpet Backing The Americans with Disabilities Act To accommodate a wide range of special occupational requirements in the workplace, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires that interior fixtures, furnishings, and surfaces meet specifications regarding accessibility, mobility, and functionality.

		BioCel & EnviroCel Attached Cushion Thermal Insulating Properties Heating and cooling commercial buildings is expensive. Products that contribute thermal resistance can help improve energy costs. Products with BioCel® and EnvirCel™ attached cushion polyurethane carpet backings demonstrate an R-valve up to 65 percent greater than conventional carpet products.

BioCel & EnviroCel Polyurethane Carpet Backing
Wick Back Staining
Unlike conventional latex backing, UTT polyurethane carpet backings provide a unique advanced coating between the carpet pile and the secondary backing, minimizing liquid spills from penetrating the carpet backing to help avoid the problem of wick back staining.

EnviroCel Eco-Friendly Carpet Backing
Product Pamphlet
Environmental sustainability is no longer a luxury add-on in Hospitality environments. EnviroCel™ polyurethane carpet backing is the first high performance, environmentally friendly carpet backing developed exclusively for the hospitality industry.

EnviroCel Eco-Friendly Carpet Backing
Product Brochure
Designed for use in hotel rooms, condominiums, corridors, and other mid-traffic environments, EnviroCel replaces over 90% of the petroleum-based polymers normally found in polyurethane with bio-based polymers derived from domestically-grown soybeans.

		BioCel Polyurethane Carpet & Turf Backing Product Brochure - Updated 2007 BioCel® is a new compound developed by Universal Textile Technologies for use in their high-performance polyurethane backing systems. It is a combinations of BioBased polymers and Celceram™.

		Universal Textile Technologies Products Brochure Drawing on more than 25 years of industry leadership, Universal Textile Technologies is committed to providing the finest equipment, the latest technology, the most highly-trained people, and the highest performing products anywhere in the industry.

		Universal Textile Technologies BioCel Product Advertisement Start with Green. Make it Greener. Our Greenest yet. BioCel® is a new, green backing system for carpets and synthetic turf with the quality and high performance you expect from Universal Textile Technologies.

		Universal Textile Technologies Making It GREEN, Making It BETTER Brochure The polyurethane technology in BioCel has been shown to significantly increase carpet life compared to other forms of carpet backing, conserving resources by reducing the frequency of replacement.

		Universal Textile Technologies EnviroCel / BioCel Advertisement From board rooms to reception areas, BioCel offers proven performance and sustainability for contract projects. To guest rooms, corridors and public areas, comes a unique carpet backing that brings green technology to hospitality.

		Universal Textile Technologies Environmental Overview UTT has had tremendous progress since 1998 in establishing benchmarks for the backing industry. We are known as an industry leader in sustainability due to our development of several key components in our processes.

Universal Textile Technologies
EnviroCel HOME Brochure
UTT, the manufacturers of EnviroCel HOME, is a pioneer in eco-friendly carpet backing and sustainable manufacturing. Proven in many applications, EnviroCel has come home, bringing these benefits and more to residential interiors.

LEED Certifications
BioCel & EnviroCel Synthetic Turf Backing
This document outlines LEED credit categories listed in the 2009 Version 3 edition of the USGBC LEED Reference Guide for Green Building Design and Construction.