We make the most of space. A BLOOMSBURG SPECIALTY

For more than 30 years, Bloomsburg Carpet Industries, located in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania,
has been dedicated to producing high-end, woven carpets of superior quality. With a wide range
of designs in contemporary to traditional colors, Bloomsburg offers highly styled carpets for the commercial and residential market place. Bloomsburg products are located in some of the most prestigious hotels, casinos, airports and government buildings around the world.

 

St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport
Zeftron® Nylon 6ix Fiber Systems

For many, the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport serves as a popular gateway to the Tampa Bay, Florida area. Over the past few years, the airport experienced a steady growth in the number of air travelers, necessitating a comprehensive renovation to its terminal building to make it even more appealing and welcoming to travelers. In 2006 the airport embarked on a three-year renovation project and in November 2009, just in time for the holiday travel season, the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport re-opened its doors revealing a fresh, new look. The new design was intended to update and unify the appearance and feel of the terminal, which was originally built in 12 different phases, and to create a comfortable environment that could help the traffic flow smoothly from one area to another. Bloomsburg Carpet along with Kelly Taaffe Design, Inc. created a custom carpet to incorporate beauty, durability and sustainability as a “connective tissue” for the desired unifying effect of the $12 million airport renovation.

High traffic meets high-end. HIGH END DESIGN

Bloomsburg, known for its high-end design and ability to create custom carpet, was able to produce a fashionable carpet that met the safety, maintenance, lifecycle costs and wayfinding needs required by the designer and the airport. The carpet, fabricated with Zeftron® nylon 6ix fiber systems, is woven to produce superior quality, offering style, performance and recyclability.

   

St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport
Zeftron® Nylon 6ix Fiber Systems

The custom Bloomsburg carpet material featured a unique pattern that Kelly Taaffe Design, Inc. created especially for the
St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport. To translate the design into the more than 65,000-square-feet of carpet needed
for the project, the design studio worked closely with Bloomsburg’s computer technicians and artists to turn their creative inspiration into a reality. The carpet reflected the natural indigenous beauty of the surrounding flora and fauna of the Tampa Bay area through a color palette of greens, blues, sands and black. The six-foot by six-foot pattern swirls and repeats itself throughout the terminal, bringing a fresh, unified look and leading travelers through the airport. The Zeftron nylon 6ix fiber adds to the overall aesthetic appeal of the carpet and provides increased durability.

“The biggest design challenge was unifying the look of the whole terminal building. It looked disjointed at first, so selecting the right products, from the carpet to the ticket counters, was essential to the success of this project,” said Kelly Taaffe Noto, owner and principal of Kelly Taaffe Design, Inc.

Ultimately, the carpet tied each terminal of the airport together and helped achieve the project design goal of a unified and fresh, new look.

Looks that go the distance. DURABILITY

Durability is key in a carpet intended for high-traffic areas, such as the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport. Bloomsburg knew that selecting Zeftron nylon 6ix fiber systems in the fabrication of their carpet would not only achieve the resilience the airport needed to keep the carpet beautiful under high-traffic, but it would also complete the highly-stylized look the carpet was developed to provide. Zeftron nylon is specifically engineered to meet the demands of intensive use environments and delivers both long-lasting color stability and ease of care.

 

St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport
Zeftron® Nylon 6ix Fiber Systems

In addition to strength and low maintenance costs, Zeftron offers a fashion-forward color palette that allows for creativity – limited only by the designers’ imagination.

“I’ve been using carpet made with Zeftron nylon for over 15 years and it has performed beyond expectations,” said Kelley Taaffe Noto. “I like their approach to solution dyeing and the guarantees that come with the fiber, as well as the yarns technical configuration which adds inherent strength, durability and color reflectivity to the carpet.”

Impact your design not the environment. RECYCLABILITY

Bloomsburg’s selection of Zeftron nylon 6ix fiber systems was a choice to embrace both aesthetics and the environment. Besides being 100 percent recyclable, the carpet featuring Zeftron’s nylon 6ix® is Cradle to Cradle Silver certified by McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC). It can be fully renewed because of its inherent composition and can also help contribute to gaining Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) points in several categories.

 

St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport
Zeftron® Nylon 6ix Fiber Systems

Zeftron’s 6ix Again Carpet Recycling Program exhibits the company’s commitment to recycling and renewing its materials. This patented process does exactly as it sounds: it closes the traditional recycling loop and enables nylon 6 to retain all of its original quality – performance, durability and coloration characteristics – each time it’s recycled. This process enables nylon 6 to be recycled over and over again.

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