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Alliance Sleep Products unveiled during the Home Furnishing Show in Vegas last month their new line of luxury mattress called the Waterford Mattress Collection. The company has tied up with Waterford Wedgwood to create a luxury mattress that will be known for its craftmanship and beautiful details.

Waterford Mattress Collection is hand-crafted and will make use of natural products like rayon Belgium damask and New Zealand Joma wool. It will come in Talalay latex boxspring, which is built to provide support, proper ventilation and resistance against bacteria.

A Denver-based mattress manufacturer is now closing its doors, after doing business for almost four decades.

United Sleep Products of Denver has shut the doors of its 89,000-square-foot building at 412 Oak St., where it began in 1970 as Kinder Furniture & Bedding. As many as 160 employees have worked at the factory in recent years.

The company also reportedly has closed its factory in Fort Wayne, Ind.

United Sleep produced bedding products such as futons and coil, no-flip and memory-foam mattresses. The Denver plant produced about 2,000 pieces of bedding daily.

Here’s a case of a guy from Wirral near Liverpool, England, who was literally killed by cigarettes. From the accounts of this news, he was smoking in bed when he accidentally dropped the cigarette on his mattress, causing it to blaze up and killing him in the process. He could not get up from it because he was disabled and therefore confined to the bed. But I guess, as with most smokers, who finds it hard to kick the habit, he could not help himself when he lit that cigarette while lying on the mattress. And of course, that would be the last time he would pop one.

Keetsa Mattress Store is now open! Our partner site has recently launched its newly overhauled website to accommodate an eco-friendly mattress store where one can shop for sleep products made with all-natural ingredients.

Read about Keetsa here.

Follow their committment to making the world better by going green here.

And of course, shop for mattresses, pillows, toppers and more (with no chemicals or pesticides!) at the Keetsa store here.

The International Sleep Products Association Bedding Barometer for the month of June 2007 indicated that mattress sales has been stable and steady in the last six months. In comparison to last year’s sales record between January to June, the profit margin for this year was relatively higher.

The trade group reported a 0.9% increase in units through June, and a 3.5% increase in dollars, based on its sampling of 19 companies. In the first half, innerspring units were flat, while specialty sleep units posted a 9.4% gain. The dollar value of innerspring mattress shipments increased 1%, compared to a 15.9% dollar increase for the specialty mattress category.

Evidently, studies have linked the baby killer, SIDS, to the kind of sleep products found on the baby’s crib. A chemically treated crib mattress may be harmful to the baby, so understandably, parents are concerned of this and may be looking for alternatives.

The Natural Mattress is hand-crafted in England and is made of 100% natural materials that com from coconut husk and lambs wool. These products contain no plastics, PVCs or chemicals, and aids in easier breathing for babies.

FabricTech is a manufacturer of allergy-safe mattress and other sleep products. They use patented technology such as OmniGuard® fabric and MiteTight® for protection against allergen and dust mites.

The comfort and rejuvenating powers of Land and Sky’s Full-Depth Flotation Beds are so pronounced, the body savors the experience during sleep and draws upon it throughout the day. The “responsive give” of the mattress cradles you in comfort providing therapeutic support for soothing, healthful sleep.

This particular water bed, the New Century Dreamscape from Land and Sky, is customizable. You are to choose the water mattress insert which is a good thing because in doing so, you control the type of sleeping environment you should have, in order to get the best in comfort. Land and Sky offers different varieties of levels and support for the water bed chamber or bladder. Choose from a 5-layer to a 7-layer variety, anywhere between 85%-99% waveless capacity.

The International Sleep Products Association (ISPA) will host ISPA EXPO 2008, the world’s largest tradeshow devoted exclusively to the mattress industry, March 12-15, 2008 in Baltimore, MD, at the Baltimore Convention Center. This biennial event features the largest selection of exhibits with the latest component materials, equipment, machinery, supplies and services specific to the mattress industry.

The four-day event brings mattress producers and industry suppliers together from around the world to shop, learn, and build important business relationships. Educational sessions include key industry topics such as updates from the CPSC on Part 1633-related inspections, how to strengthen relationships between manufacturers, retailers and customers, how to use industry statistics, and understanding the mattress consumer.

Mattress business must be padding up for Symbols Mattress, which has been operating for forty years now.

Fort Wayne, Ind. — Symbol Mattress of Indiana, a wholly owned subsidiary of Richmond, Va.-based Eastern Sleep Products Company, Inc., has announced that it will construct a new manufacturing building on a 15-acre site in the Airport Business Center on Earhart Lane near Airport Expressway in Fort Wayne.

The building will include 105,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space and 6,000 sq. ft. of office. New machinery, equipment and special tooling will also be added as part of the project.