A new American national robot safety standard has been approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Developed by Robotic Industries Assn. (RIA), the ANSI/RIA R15.06-2012 standard has been updated for the first time since ...
Tags: Robot, Electrical, Electronics
The Connecticut Senate gave overwhelming approval this week to a mattress recycling bill supported by the International Sleep Products Assn. The bill, which authorizes an industry-led non-profit organization to create and run a mattress ...
Tags: Recycling Bill, Connecticut, Mattress
Boyd Specialty Sleep’s Fontana, Calif., factory will soon get solar panels to power its plant and provide electrical power for other companies.ST. LOUIS - Boyd Specialty Sleep is specializing in something new: Energy autonomy. ...
Tags: Boyd, Energy Independent
Furniture First buying group elected new board members Ken Paul of FrontRoom Furnishings in Columbus, Ohio, and Richard Talsma of Talsma Furniture in Hudsonville, Mich., to two-year terms during the group's general membership and annual ...
Posted by Lisa McTigue Pierce, Executive Editor -- Packaging Digest, 4/29/2013 9:52:04 AM By Larry Dworkin, director, government relations, PAC-The Packaging Assn. EDITOR'S NOTE: Packaging Digest's recent webcast "Food Safety & ...
Tags: Packaging Materials, Packaging
Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe has signed a bill that stiffens the penalties for knowingly selling used bedding as a new product. The bill, which was backed by the Arkansas Homefurnishings Assn., was overwhelmingly approved by the state House ...
Tags: Light Industry, bedding
Lisa McTigue Pierce, Executive Editor -- Packaging Digest, 4/1/2013 5:10:00 PM Lisa McTigue Pierce, Executive Editor, Packaging DigestA busy month of traveling and conversations at various industry events got me thinking about some ...
Tags: Packaging, Package, packaging designers
High-end manufacturer Harden Furniture says it will introduce a Mount Vernon collection this fall, a licensed line that will bring together the home of the nation's first president and its oldest furniture producer. "It's only appropriate ...
Results from the latest consumer survey conducted for the Organic Trade Assn. (OTA) reveal that as U.S. families are becoming increasingly aware of the presence of unlabeled genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in foods in the marketplace, ...
Tags: labeling, GMOs, Organic label
The International Home Furnishings Representatives Assn.'s North Central group has been named the organization's Chapter of the Year and will be honored during next month's High Point Market. The North Central chapter is based in ...
Tags: Central Group, High Point Market, Furniture
The bedding industry took a dismal turn in February, with units declining 7.4% and the dollar value of wholesale shipments dropping 6.7%. For the first two months of the year, units are down 3.9% while dollars are down 3.2%, according to ...
Tags: Bedding Sales, bed, furniture
Scott Bedbury HIGH POINT — Marketing guru Scott Bedbury will be the keynote speaker at Furniture/Today's upcoming Bedding Conference. Bedbury, a former top marketing executive at Nike and Starbucks, was responsible for Nike's ...
The Natural Products Assn. (NPA) Board of Directors calls for all foods containing genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) to be accurately labeled under a national uniform standard so consumers can make educated decisions about foods they ...
Tags: Natural Products Assn., National Standard, GMO Labeling
Bedding veteran Ron Passaglia, president and chief marketing officer at Top 15 bedding producer Restonic, has been elected chairman of the International Sleep Products Assn. Also elected to a leadership post at ISPA was Kathryn Roedel, ...
Tags: Bedding, Light Industry, Daily Use
Tempur-Pedic's Mark Sarvary, left, and Sealy's Larry Rogers sit on a Sealy Posturepedic mattress at Sealy's headquarters in Archdale, N.C. ARCHDALE, N.C. — Tempur-Pedic's acquisition of Sealy, which creates a $2.7 billion global ...
Tags: Light Industry, Daily Use