PP Carpet for Exhibition Halls and High-Traffic Aisles

Part 1: Description

LUCK Carpet makes this polypropylene tufted wall to wall carpet at our 26,000 m² plant in Foshan, Guangdong, for exhibition halls that lay a floor and strike it inside one shift. The build is a 4 mm loop pile at 500 g/m2 on an anti-slip textile backing, cut to 4 m (13.1 ft) usable width, so a 40 m aisle run needs ten drops and nine seams. Fourteen years of exporting fair flooring showed us what fails in a hall: curling edges, drifting seams and a lift that overruns the move-out deadline. This page covers install speed and seam discipline on short show cycles.

Part 2: In-Depth Product Introduction

Why the 4 m roll width decides the hall schedule

Roll width moves labour more than pile weight does. At 4 m usable, a 12 m wide aisle bank is three drops; at 2 m it would be six, and each extra drop adds a seam, a trim pass and one more visible line. A 4 m by 25 m roll covers 100 m² and weighs roughly 105 kg, light enough for two fitters to walk down a cleared aisle on a trolley. Unroll two hours before seaming and the low loop face relaxes flat.

Layout planning starts at the loading door, not the middle of the hall. We issue a drop plan with every order: which roll goes where, which way the pile leans, where the seams land. Seams belong under a stand wall or along a service strip, never down the centre of a walking aisle where hall lighting rakes across them. On the Guangzhou fair below, three of nine planned seams moved 600 mm once the contractor sent the column grid.

Holding one shade across sixty-two rolls

Each order runs on one tufting line with stitch rate, yarn feed and pile height fixed at the same set points, so roll 62 tufts like roll 1. Yarn lot stays traceable from polymer batch to finished roll, which matters when a show is extended and you need eight more rolls in ten days. The lab records 41,000 rubs to defined change on ISO 12947-2 at 5 kPa, and tuft bind of 38 N to ISO 4919.

Backing peel sits at 32 N/50 mm, high enough that a re-rolled carpet does not delaminate when it is dragged over a stillage lip. After wet cleaning the length change is 0.18 % to ISO 2551, so a large hall does not open gaps at the wall overnight. Static loading leaves an 11 % recovery deficit to ISO 3416. Reaction to fire is class Bfl-s1 to EN 13501-1, supported by EN ISO 9239-1 and EN ISO 11925-2 reports.

Part 3: Technical Specification Table

The figures below were measured on the finished roll in our Foshan plant. Pile weight counts face yarn only, not the backing and pre-coat. Treat the fire row as the document a hall officer will ask to see, and request the EN ISO 9239-1 and EN ISO 11925-2 reports behind the class.

Style PP Tufted Wall to Wall Carpet for Exhibition

Yarn type Polypropylene

Pile Height 4 mm

Pile Weight 500 g/m2

Backing Anti-slip textile backing

Fire Resistance Bfl-s1 (EN 13501-1)

Application Exhibition

Width / Size 4 m (13.1 ft) usable width

Pattern Custom design available (artwork supplied by buyer, strike-off approved before production)

Surface / Technique Loop pile

Part 4: Product Features & Applications

Hall work splits into four zones: aisle runs, island stand perimeters, registration decks and the service strip behind the partition line. What follows covers laying and striking, the zones themselves, and the two defects buyers photograph and send back.

1. Setting 500 g/m2 by hand and striking it in one shift

Speed comes from crew size and staging, not from the carpet. A six-fitter crew lays 600 to 800 m² of this 500 g/m2 loop in a cleared hall per shift, seaming and trimming included. On the machinery fair below, fourteen fitters laid 6,200 m² in 9.5 hours with two crews leapfrogging along the 96 m hall axis.

Striking is where budget floors get destroyed. Roll the carpet face-in onto cores, in the same direction it was laid, band it, and pallet it by zone so the next hall is a repeat rather than a puzzle. Carpet rolled up damp will mildew inside a container within a week, so wipe spills first. A ten-person strike crew clears 6,000 m² in about four hours, and four to six re-lay cycles is a realistic working life.

2. Aisle runs, island stands and registration decks

Aisle runs carry the whole audience, so they are planned first. Island stands from 6 m by 6 m to 12 m by 12 m sit on the same carpet, with seams tucked under the stand wall instead of crossing open floor. Registration decks take a queue that stands almost still for hours, which is compression rather than abrasion. A 6,200 m² four-day machinery fair at a hall in Guangzhou's Baiyun district took 62 rolls plus six spares.

That hall measured 96 m by 64 m on a 9 m by 9 m column grid, with three 12 m loading doors and a screed flat to 3 mm under a 3 m straightedge. Floor boxes, service pits and door tracks all had to be cut around, and every cut is a place an edge can lift. We marked every column and box on the drop plan so fitters cut once, on the roll.

3. Why a 2 mm lifted edge reads as a 40 mm shadow

Under 500 lux of high-bay LED at a shallow angle, a 2 mm lifted edge throws a shadow roughly 40 mm long, and from the far end of the hall that shadow is the thing people see. Common causes are carpet laid straight off a cold truck, carpet rolled up within hours of laying, edges cut short at the wall, or one run that changes laying direction halfway. Fresh screed adds moisture to that list.

An anti-slip textile backing, 38 N tuft bind and 32 N/50 mm peel hold face and backing together through that handling, and 0.18 % dimensional change keeps the wall line straight. Let the carpet relax 24 hours before final trim, keep one laying direction per hall, and seam with tape where the venue forbids adhesive. If a hall is struck eight times a year for five years, a heavier backing is the better spend than this roll.

Case Study

Case Study: 6,200 m² of aisle floor for a four-day machinery fair in Guangzhou

A fair contractor tendering a four-day machinery show at a hall in Guangzhou's Baiyun district needed 6,200 m² of aisle, registration and stand-perimeter floor laid inside a twelve-hour move-in window, then lifted cleanly. We quoted 62 rolls of 4 m by 25 m plus six spares from one masterbatch, and supplied a drop plan that put seams under stand walls and along the service strip.

Fourteen fitters laid it in 9.5 hours, ahead of the window and inside the venue noise curfew. After four show days and the strike, 56 rolls went back into store on cores and six were written off. The lab measured 11 % thickness loss to ISO 3416 at the busiest crossover, recovering to under 4 % after 36 hours, with no edge lift above 1 mm along 1,900 m of wall line. Two further halls have since been ordered on this construction.

Quality Assurance & Testing

What we test on the finished roll, and what to ask for

Our Foshan lab runs this construction every week, and the last six production batches averaged 41,000 rubs to defined change on ISO 12947-2 at 5 kPa; tuft bind to ISO 4919 at 38 N; backing peel at 32 N/50 mm; dimensional change to ISO 2551 at 0.18 %; static load thickness loss to ISO 3416 at 11 %; colour fastness Grade 6 to ISO 105-B02 and Grade 4-5 to ISO 105-X12; and Class A to GB 18587-2001 on indoor air. Ask any supplier for the method, the sample date and the batch number. We exhibit at DOMOTEX Hannover and The Canton Fair in Guangzhou, and third-party inspection by SGS, Intertek or BV is available at our plant.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many square metres can one crew lay in a shift?

Six fitters lay 600 to 800 m² of this 500 g/m2 loop per shift in an empty hall, seaming and trimming included. With fourteen fitters on the Guangzhou fair we held 6,200 m² in 9.5 hours. If stands are still being built around you, expect 40 % slower.

Will a re-order three months later match the first delivery?

Usually yes, and we say so before production rather than after. Your approved strike-off and a retained roll sample stay with us for 24 months, and every order is pigmented from a traced masterbatch. If the masterbatch lot has to change, we tell you, send a new strike-off for approval, and hold the line until you sign it off.

Can the floor be rolled up and used again at the next show?

Yes, with discipline. Roll face-in onto cores in the laying direction, keep it dry, and store it off bare concrete. Contractors get four to six re-lay cycles before edges fray. The 8-year face pile warranty covers a permanent installation, not repeated strike and re-lay.

Product Details

Roll format, pallet loading and how to place a show order

The surface is a tight 4 mm level loop with a faint directional sheen, so it reads as one flat plane from the hall entrance but shows a slight tone change if one drop is laid against the pile direction. Custom shades and custom designs are both possible from buyer artwork, with a strike-off approved before production starts. Rolls come 4 m by 25 m on cores, wrapped in moisture-proof film.

Standard shades ship 15 to 20 days after deposit, and a custom design needs 25 to 30 days from strike-off approval. Minimum order is 500 m² per shade, and a first order can be split across two shades. Send the hall size, the column grid and the move-in date, and LUCK Carpet will return a drop plan with the quotation.