The Sustainable Furnishings Council and Elon University will present a one-day program that features the latest thinking in sustainability and charts the future of responsible design. The program, "Innovations in Sustainable Furnishings: ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
With an impressive display of more than 1,600 exhibitors, PACK EXPO 2013 is expecting a full house when the Las Vegas Convention Center opens its doors for three days-Sept. 23-25-to more than 26,000 packaging and processing professionals ...
Furniture West and the Canadian Home Furnishings Alliance, two of this country's three regional associations of furniture and bedding manufacturers, importers and associate members, are merging effective immediately. The new organization ...
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The bedding industry posted modest gains in June, with units increasing 2.3% and the wholesale dollar volume of bedding shipments rising by 3.5%. But the June Bedding Barometer report, issued by the International Sleep Products Assn., ...
The International Sleep Products Assn. will update the industry on recent mattress recycling developments at a meeting here Tuesday, July 30. The session is set for 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the World Center Forum, on the 16th floor of Building ...
Tags: Mattress Recycling
Gerdt Furniture here has gone out of business after 53 years following the liquidation of its inventory. Sales and liquidation specialist Deere Park Assn. supervised the going-out-of-business sale, and Focus Media, which works closely ...
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Rhode Island has become the second state to enact a mattress recycling program. The state's governor, Lincoln Chafee, signed the bill into law this week. Neighboring Connecticut recently became the first state to adopt mattress recycling ...
Tags: Mattress, Light Industry, Daily Use
The bedding industry posted modest gains in May, with units rising 1.3% while the dollar value of wholesale bedding shipments increased 2.0%. The International Sleep Products Assn.'s May Bedding Barometer report shows that overall ...
Tags: bedding industry, Daily Use, Light Industry
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Rhode Island Senate approved mattress recycling legislation this week on a 37-0 vote. The legislation is the result of months of negotiations between legislators in the state and officials of the International Sleep ...
The International Sleep Products Assn. says it led the way in developing a new ASTM voluntary crib mattress standard, which sets a size requirement for crib mattresses and establishes a test method to confirm the size. The new standard ...
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Longtime Seattle retailer and E. Masin Furniture Co. president Benjamin Masin, 93, died on June 4. Born in Riga, Latvia, Masin immigrated with his family to Seattle when he was 10 months old. He served in the Navy and Marine Corps in the ...
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The wholesale dollar value of bedding shipments increased 8.5% in April and bedding units jumped 10.7% that month, the International Sleep Products Assn. reported. But that strong performance was not enough to pull ...
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The Consumer Specialty Products Assn. (CSPA) has released the results of its 2012 Aerosol Pressurized Products Survey, which serves as an annual indicator of the business strength of the aerosol products industry. For a third consecutive ...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — It was a good week for the bedding industry on the mattress recycling front. In Connecticut, the nation's first mattress recycling bill was signed into law by Conn. Gov. Dannel Malloy. The bill, supported by the ...
Ryan Trainer, president of the International Sleep Products Assn., urges conference attendees to contact their elected officials when asked to lobby for industry-supported recycling measures. CHANDLER, Ariz. -States around the country are ...
Tags: Mattress, Recycling Measures, ISPA