VINYL FLOOR COVERING

1 . A vinyl floor covering comprising: a PVC plastisol impregnated into an integrated carrier, wherein the carrier comprises a nonwoven layer of fibers comprising thermoplastic fibers and a scrim, wherein the scrim and the nonwoven layer of fibers comprising thermoplastic fibers are connected to each other by mechanical and/or thermal bonding.

2 . The vinyl floor covering according to claim 1 wherein the scrim comprises yarns as warp threads having a modulus of a least 25 GPa.

3 . The vinyl floor covering according to claim 2 wherein the yarns comprised as warp threads in the scrim are selected such that the modulus of the scrim is at least 50 N/5 cm, as determined as a load at a specified elongation of 2% in accordance with EN29073-3 (August 1992) with a clamp speed of 200 mm/min.

4 . The vinyl floor covering according to claim 1 wherein a shrinkage of the weft threads in the scrim matches the shrinkage in a cross machine direction of the nonwoven layer of fibers comprising thermoplastic fibers.

5 . The vinyl floor covering according to claim 4 wherein the scrim comprised in the carrier has a free shrinkage in weft direction at a temperature in the range of 140° C. to 170° C., differs at most by 1%, from the free shrinkage in the cross machine direction of the nonwoven layer of fibers comprised in the carrier at the same temperature.

6 . The vinyl floor covering according to any of claim 4 wherein the scrim has a free shrinkage, at a temperature of 150° C. and a residence time of 1 minute, of at least 0.1%.

7 . The vinyl floor covering according to claim 3 wherein the modulus of the scrim is at least 100 N/5 cm, as determined as the load at specified elongation of 2% in accordance with EN29073-3 (August 1992) with a clamp speed of 200 mm/min.

8 . The vinyl floor covering according to claim 3 wherein the modulus of the scrim is at least 200 N/5 cm, as determined as the load at specified elongation of 2% in accordance with EN29073-3 (August 1992) with a clamp speed of 200 mm/min.

9 . The vinyl floor covering according to claim 3 wherein the modulus of the scrim is at least 250 N/5 cm, as determined as the load at specified elongation of 2% in accordance with EN29073-3 (August 1992) with a clamp speed of 200 mm/min.

10 . The vinyl floor covering according to claim 5 wherein the modulus of the scrim is at least 250 N/5 cm, as determined as the load at specified elongation of 2% in accordance with EN29073-3 (August 1992) with a clamp speed of 200 mm/min.

11 . The vinyl floor covering according to claim 5 wherein the free shrinkage differs at most by 0.5%.

12 . The vinyl floor covering according to claim 5 wherein the free shrinkage differs at most by 0.25%.

13 . The vinyl floor covering according to claim 5 wherein the free shrinkage differs at most by 0.1%.

14 . The vinyl floor covering according to claim 1 wherein at least 50 wt. % of a total weight of fibers in the nonwoven layer of fibers are thermoplastic fibers.

15 . The vinyl floor covering according to claim 1 wherein a weight of the nonwoven layer of fibers comprised in the carrier is in a range of 40 g/m 2 to 250 g/m 2 .

16 . The vinyl floor covering according to claim 1 wherein the scrim comprises glass yarns as warp threads and/or weft threads.

17 . The vinyl floor covering according to claim 16 wherein both of the warp threads and the weft threads scrim comprise glass yarns.

18 . The vinyl floor covering according to claim 6 wherein the free shrinkage is at least 0.15%.

19 . The vinyl floor covering according to claim 6 wherein the free shrinkage is at least 0.2%.

20 . The vinyl floor covering according to claim 6 wherein the free shrinkage is at least 0.25%.