DuPont™ Sorona® renewably sourced polymer - Another DuPont™
Miracle of Science.
Through a joint venture with Tate & Lyle – a world leader in sugars and sugar related
products like Splenda™, DuPont brings Mohawk a polymer from the fields that we take
to your floor. By using the sugar found in corn, DuPont is able to create one of
Sorona’s key ingredients from renewable resources instead of natural resources.
That is why every seven yards of SmartStrand made with DuPont
Sorona renewably sourced polymer saves enough energy and resources to equal
the equivalent of one gallon of gasoline. By utilizing this new technology we are
able to save up to 10 Million gallons of gasoline a year. Incredible savings for
an incredible product.
How does this work?
Grow
Corn is planted and grown in fields across the United States.
Harvest
Fully matured corn is harvested and sent to the DuPont Tate & Lyle facility in Loudon,
Tennessee.
Process
The sugar is taken from the corn and put into a fermentation process. The end product
becomes Bio-PDO™, which is a key ingredient in DuPont Sorona renewably sourced polymer.
Product
DuPont Sorona is spun into fiber by Mohawk and then tufted into beautiful SmartStrand
carpet.
By replacing standard PDO with Bio-PDO, SmartStrand with DuPont Sorona renewably
sourced polymer is the perfect solution to life’s unpredictable moments and environmental
concerns