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Article: FR solutions draw growing interest at expo.(Advanced Fibers Systems unit)
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- Furniture-Today
- Article date:
- April 29, 2006
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By David Perry
San Antonio-- Suppliers of fire-resistant mattress materials say smaller and medium-sized bedding producers are approaching the mattress flammability issue with a growing sense of urgency.
That's not unexpected. A federal mattress flammability standard goes into effect in July 2007, but FR suppliers say a number of bedding producers still have much ground to cover on the road to compliance.
Those were some of the key points that emerged from the International Sleep Products Assn. Expo held here last month, the last such supplier show before the federal flammability standard goes on the books.
As such, it gave bedding ...