STAINMASTER ® Home & Office Carpet

The Ultimate in Style and Performance for Home Offices and Small Businesses

ATLANTA (February 6, 2007) – INVISTA's STAINMASTER ® carpet business, supplying fiber for fas hion-forward carpet styles, textures and colors featuring durability and stain resistance, will debut the new STAINMASTER ® Home & Office carpet line at Surfaces 2007. The STAINMASTER ® Home & Office carpet line meets the unique challenges of home offices, dens and small business environments because of the fiber innovation that allows for thickness, luxury and fashion-forward designs in soft flooring while offering the performance needed in the small business environment.

“The new STAINMASTER ® Home & Office carpet line is strong enough for the office, yet elegant enough for the home. This line allows consumers and small business owners to bring the style and performance synonymous with the STAINMASTER ® brand into small businesses and special areas of the home,” said Steve Griffith, vice president of residential flooring at INVISTA.

The STAINMASTER ® Home & Office carpet line offers the easy removal of most food and beverage stains and advanced soil protection to help keep carpet looking newer longer. Excellent texture retention in high traffic areas, outstanding fade resistance and lifetime protection against static shock make the STAINMASTER ® Home & Office carpet line ideal for small business environments.

“This new line of STAINMASTER ® carpet provides new opportunities for retailers to increase their offerings to small business environments and home offices. This line provides a STAINMASTER ® carpet retailers can assure consumers will perform in a business environment day in and day out,” said Griffith.

The STAINMASTER ® Home & Office carpet line is backed by a 7-year stain resistance limited warranty, 7-year soil resistance limited warranty, 10-year texture retention limited warranty and 10-year abrasive wear limited warranty for residential installations. The line is backed by a 10-year abrasive wear limited warranty for commercial installations.

STAINMASTER ® carpet is designed for the ultimate in style, luxury, performance and value. It also features the unique STAINMASTER ® carpet stain and soil protection technology. STAINMASTER ® carpet employs a repel and release technology that reduces the ability of soil to adhere to the carpet fiber and allows most food and beverage stains to be easily removed during cleaning. STAINMASTER ® carpet is available in several innovative fiber technologies including ExtraBody II™ nylon fiber to provide more luxury, thickness and more fashion-forward designs than carpets of similar construction and Tactesse ® nylon fiber that makes carpets incredibly soft while maintaining durability.

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