İşbir Sünger takes pride of its human resources

Listed in Second Top 500 Enterprises of Turkey, the company attributes its success mainly to its talented, experienced and dedicated team. We asked the details of their success story to Metin Gültepe, CEO of İşbir Holding to which İşbir Sünger (İşbir Foam) is affiliated.

You were ranked as “Turkey’s Second Top 500 Industrial Enterprises” that Istanbul Chamber of Commerce announced according to the 2019 survey. What are your main building stones that bring İşbir Sünger to this position and what are your principles?

First of all I want to express how proud and pleased we are to be among the ISO 500, which is quite significant for the business world in Turkey, with our 2 companies. As you know we are not unfamiliar with this list as İşbir Holding. The greatest secret behind this success for years has been superior quality human resources of each whom is a part of our family. Also taking lessons from past experiences and developing strategies according to our vision for the future play an important part in this success. Embracing rules of ethics and working under the guidance of innovation, science and rationality comprise the building stones of the success we have achieved over the years. “To summarize: Honestly and respect for people is the foundation of our work method. Understanding and grasping the rules of impact and spreading this throughout every aspect of life is the greatest wealth we can pass on to the future.”

How do you evaluate your position in the sector? Do you have bigger goals? What are your goals and plans in the short, medium and long terms?

All of our companies are in leading positions in the sector they are active in. In terms of İşbir Sentetik, we have taken a position at the top among select bigbag producers in the world. İşbir Sünger is one of the biggest producers of the Turkish furniture industry. Today, Turkey’s Expert in Mattresses, İşbir Yatak, has know-how that goes back many years. Our goals for the short and medium term are to work on increasing productivity from bot a qualitative and quantitative aspect on the investments we have made to raise production quality. Also, our responsibility to the world is to develop ecologically friendly projects. For example, we are investing in ecologically friendly production models like the Viscostar Aqua Fixing Technology, which is a water based adhesive technology we have brought to our production lines. We support conservation in every field. We save electricity with the Solar Energy Panels we have installed on the roofs of the İşbir Sentetik production areas. With this investment not only do we produce in an environmentally friendly way, but we manifest İşbir’s vision on ecology. In terms of our long-term plan, we want to become an influential brand in the world with a highly competitive edge. We want to practice environmentally

Metin Gültepe CEO of İşbir Holding

friendly production and develop it in every area to leave a better world for the future, to support our country’s economy and represent Turkey economically in the world with pride. 2020 was a year of extraordinary developments in the global economy. What strategy did you follow in these negative times? How were you affected by this period and how did you manage the crisis? The pandemic provided us with a good opportunity to see our values in the best possible way. As soon as this period started, we worked with our focus on “people”. We took additional measures to protect employees in all our companies against Covid 2019. The increase in costs and the slow economy in March, April and May, especially due to the pandemic, pulled us away from our goals to a certain extent; but as of June a rise in demand occurred thanks to the economic support provided by our government. I think I can say that meeting the rising de-

mand was the biggest challenge for companies this year. We, as İşbir, did not stop our investment plans we made at the beginning of the year even in the pandemic period. We were able to meet the rising demand that started in June with the investments we made to increase the supply. As a result, even if we fell short of our goals in March, April and May we exceeded our goals in June, July and August. We continue, in the last quarter, with even higher goals.

What would you recommend to companies operating in your field to be successful internationally? The most important element

that holds a company together is human resources that are loyal to the company, happy and good quality. Showing your employees that they are valuable to you, supporting their professional and personal development and making the company an attractive organization to work in are the greatest strengths of a company to achieve success. To make science, research, objectivity and rationality the culture of the company. To analyze the future, trends and customer tendencies well and to keep track of expectations. To combine R&D, innovation and novelty with production culture of course. How do you evaluate the position of your brand in the global market? To what do you owe your success in export? We are active in over 50 countries as İşbir Holding, whether it is with İşbir Sentetik or İşbir Sünger or the Mattress Expert İşbir Yatak. Economic trust, quality and delivery time are the secrets of our success in locations where we work B2B.

In the areas where we operate as B2C, the most important elements of our success are analyzing shopping habits that vary by country well and providing solutions that suit the benefit consumers are seeking the best.

Dow and Eco-mobilier enter into an innovation partnership for the RENUVA™ Mattress Recycling Program

The new partnership will address the composing of new markets for post-consumer waste mattresses.

HORGEN, Switzerland and PARIS, France – Dow (NYSE: Dow) and Eco-mobilier, the French mattress and furniture EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) organization, announced a new collaboration for the collection and supply of post-consumer polyurethane foam for the RENUVA™ Mattress Recycling Program. As part of this innovation partnership, Eco-mobilier will employ its used mattress collection and dismantling capabilities to supply post-consumer polyurethane foam to Orrion Chemicals Orgaform’s recently announced chemical recycling unit in Semoy, France.

In Semoy, Dow’s RENUVA™ Mattress Recycling Program will use chemical recycling to convert this recovered foam into new valuable polyurethane raw materials (polyols). Dow aims to validate and work towards creating a market for these recycled polyols. “At Dow, we are addressing the challenge of discarded mattresses head on. We have been actively reviewing centrally organized waste collection, dismantling, and recycling systems for end-of-life material for years. France has set an example by

creating the EPR scheme and Eco-mobilier is leading the way in mattress and furniture waste collection,” said Neil Carr, president of Dow Europe, Middle East, Africa and India. “This collaboration is a demonstration of a completely new eco-system being built to create a circular economy for polyurethanes.” Eco-mobilier has been collecting used mattresses since 2013. In 2019, the volumes collected already reached 66,000 tonnes, and Eco-mobilier’s actions enabled a significant improvement in post-consumer mattress recycling. Nonetheless, the markets for such materials remain limited.

“Eco-mobilier and its manufacturer and retailer shareholders* are proud to support this first industrial plant dedicated to

PU foam chemical recycling right here in France. Thanks to this pioneering project with Dow, we are closing the loop by opening a new era for mattress recycling. This aligns with our strategy of implementing industrial tools for mattress recycling in France”, added Dominique Mignon, president of Eco-mobilier. The announcement is the latest step in the development of the RENUVA™ Mattress Recycling Program, which aims to recycle up to 200,000 mattresses a year in France and address the problem of waste landfilling and incineration. Initial production of RENUVA™ polyols is anticipated in the first half of 2021.

COVID-19 to boost demand for Turkish products globally

The demand for Turkish goods will continue to grow globally, day after day during the pandemic, Murat Özyeğin, the head of Turkish conglomerate Fiba Holding, said.

European countries will turn to closer-distance alternatives and reliable countries such as Turkey, said Özyeğin, also the chairman of the Foreign Economic Relations Board’s (DEİK) Turkey-Netherlands Business Council.

“As in many countries of the world, as a result of this (pandemic) process, the trend of diversifying supplier countries will also rise in the Netherlands,” he noted. After the COVID-19 pandemic, which first appeared in China last December, several sectors were affected by measures to stem the spread of the virus. Several manufacturing firms in the developed countries faced supply shortages due to the closed factories in China.

“The pandemic showed that the dependence on one country, China, within the global supply chain poses severe risks,” Özyeğin stressed.

He reminded that Turkey and the Netherlands’ bilateral trade volume has been expanding every year. In the first four months of 2020, Turkey’s exports to the country amounted to $1.7 billion while imports from the Netherlands totaled $1.2 billion. Last year, the bilateral trade was around $9 billion – $5.8 billion exports and $3.2 billion imports, official figures showed.

The Netherlands is one of the largest investor countries in Turkey, with 16% or $25.5 billion of the total $160.6 billion foreign direct investments in the last 18 years. Turkey’s foreign investments in the Netherlands totaled $13.8 billion over the same period.

Among the largest 20 world economies, in terms of gross domestic product (GDP), the Netherlands is 17th and Turkey is 18th, Özyeğin recalled. Increasing cooperation with the Netherlands will be beneficial for both the countries, he noted.

Mattress Industry Terms

Source: ISPA, International Sleep Products Association

Adjustable base: An electro-mechanical or manual bed frame construction that permits the raising and lowering of the head and/or foot portions of the mattress.

Airbed: An air mattress with a core that is an air-filled vinyl bladder. Better airbeds are multichambered, covered with cushioning, upholstered with ticking and sold with a foundation.

Anti-microbial fiber and foam: Treatment that inhibits the growth of microbial contaminates.

Backing: Any fabric or sheeting material that is used during quilting to anchor the stitches. Batting: See Cotton Felt.

Bedding: Commonly used as a generic term for a mattress and foundation set, but may also apply to accessory items such as blankets, sheets, pillows, comforters, mattress pads, etc.

Bedding ensemble: A complete sleep support system, consisting of a metal frame or a bed, a foundation and a mattress set.

Bed frame: A metal or wood frame with legs used to support a mattress and foundation. Conventional height is 7-1/4 inches and the low-profile version is 5-3/4 inches when measured from the floor to the bottom of the foundation. Generally a headboard can be attached. Metal frames are sometimes known as a “Hollywood” frame.

Bedsprings: Open-spring or wire fabric box springs without upholstery materials or cover.

Binding tape: Fabric tape used to bind and close the mattress or foundation where the vertical and horizontal panels of outer ticking come together, providing the edge trimming for the mattress or foundation. See Tape and Tape Edge.

Body impressions: Indentations

occurring on the surface of a mattress over time, due to the compression of materials by the human body.

Bonnell: A knotted, round-top, hourglass-shaped steel wire coil. When laced together with crosswire helicals, these coils form the simplest innerspring unit, also referred to as a Bonnell.

Border: The vertical side or edge of a mattress or foundation. Prebuilt borders are constructed by stitching together the ticking, foam or other filling materials and a backing material. Commonly quilted or vertical-stitched.

Border rod: A heavy gauge wire rod attached to the perimeter of the innerspring unit (top and bottom) by means of a helical wire or metal clips.

Boric acid: A chemical additive applied during the garnetting of cotton and/or other fibers to provide cigarette ignition resistance characteristics.

Box spring: Also referred to as a “foundation.” A base for an innerspring mattress, consisting of coils or other forms of springs mounted on a wood or metal frame and secured with a wire-interlaced or welded-wire grid, topped with upholstery and insulating materials (felt, urethane or other resilient materials), and covered on the top and sides with ticking and on the bottom with a dust cover. It is an important part of a bed set since it serves as a shock absorber, distributes weight, and supports and interacts with the innerspring mattress to properly support the body.

Box-top mattress: A mattress featuring a raised surface finishing treatment where a separate, sided and rectangular encasement of soft materials–usually with a tape edge–is attached via a welt to the entire surface on top of existing cover and upholstery.

Bunk bed: A two-tiered wood or metal frame designed to accommodate two mattresses, typically twin-size, one above the other. Some models allow the upper and lower units to be detached and used as separate beds. size, and platform base used on bunk beds.

Cal 117: Refers to California Technical Bulletin 117, which specifies a vertical flame testing procedure for bedding and furniture component materials. Foam referred to as “Cal 117 foam” has passed this test.

Carbon: The principal hardening element in steel. The higher the carbon content, the harder the metal and the more temper it will take, thus giving longer “memory.”

Cellulose acetate pad: Woody fiber compacted into a pad and used as an insulator. May be glued or sandwiched between plastic netting to help hold it together.

Coil count: The number of coils in an innerspring unit. Though the count can effect weight distribution, it is not the determining factor for firmness. The count is usually based on the number of coils in a full-size unit.

Coils: The individual wire springs that form an innerspring unit. See Hourglass, Continuous and Offset Coils.

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Comfort system: Refers to the upholstery layers of the mattress, generally consisting of a combination of materials (cover, cushioning, topper pad, insulators, etc.).

Conjugate polyester fiber: Spirally crimped fiber that is crimped chemically rather than thermally. Is very durable and resilient.

Continuous coils: An innerspring configuration in which the rows of coils are formed from a single piece of wire.

Conventional bedding products: Mattresses and foundations in the conventional adult sizes of twin, twin extra long, full, full extra long, queen and king.

Convertible sofa: A sofa with a bed folded beneath the seating surface, generally consisting of a mattress resting on a metal mechanism. Also called “sleep sofa” or “sofa sleeper.”

Convoluted foam: Better known as “egg-crate” foam that is specially cut to produce hills and valleys, giving gentle softness and more surface comfort. Foam surface treatment is available in multiple patterns.

Cornell test: Devised by Cornell University School of Hotel/Motel Administration. Designed to test cosmetic performance of bedding sets, such as body impression or support firmness. Two round surfaces are pounded into the finished product 100,000 times and checked periodically for failure or changes.

Corner guards: Molded plastic or metal, (sometimes upholstered) fittings secured to foundation corners to prevent material damage from the bed frame.

Cotton felt: Produced by a garnett machine which combs cotton and other fiber binders into a continuous web or layer. Several such layers combined are called cotton “batt”. For compressed cotton felt, thick layers of garnetted cotton fiber are mechanically compressed to reduce body impressions.

Cotton linters: The short fibers adhering to the seed after the long staple fiber has been removed in the ginning process. Used in making cotton felt.

Cotton pickers: “Fall out” from ginning or garnetting. These shorter staple cotton fibers are blended with linters to produce cotton felt. Crown: A convex surface on a mattress. Mattresses with a half-inch crown are a half-inch thicker at the center than at the edges.

Cushioning: Materials that lie above the insulator and below the fabric covering in an innerspring mattress. These materials are typically combinations of polyurethane foam, cotton felt, and/or mademade fibers.

Damask: Woven ticking produced on a loom that has yarns running at 90-degree angles to each other, the warp and the weft. The damask design is woven into the fabric rather than printed on the surface.

per cubic volume, usually expressed in pounds per cubic foot. Often referred to when discussing foam.

Double tempering: Heating of wire components, usually in an oven, after they have been given shape or form and have been electronically stress-relieved. Refers to tempering coils as well as border rods and helicals in a complete spring unit.

Dual-purpose: A broad term used to include all sleep pieces, which can be converted to other uses, including: convertible sofas, high-risers, daybeds, futons, etc. See Convertible Sofa.

Dust cover: A woven or non-woven fabric attached to the underside of a foundation to prevent the collection of dust inside. May also be known as “sheeting” or “cambric.”

Edge guard: Generally an extra component added to the edge of a mattress and/or box spring to give support on the sides. Engineered edge support: A special design where the coils on the outer edge of an innerspring unit are actually positioned under the border rod. Most units have the coils recessed from the edge, which can contribute to a “roll out of bed” feeling.

Euro-top mattress: A mattress featuring a raised, squared-off surface finishing treatment filled with soft comfort layers and attached to the mattress upholstery at the tapeedge.

Fabric cover: Cloth or textile material woven, knitted or felted of any fiber or mixture of fibers. Often referred to as “ticking” or mattress fabric.

Fales pad: Compressed cotton felt that is stitched together to better retain compression.

Fiber pad: Usually refers to manmade or natural fibers (wool, silk, etc.) that are garnetted, needled, carded and/or bonded together. Often used in quilting panels for mattress tops.

Filler cloth: Refers to a plain fabric used on the top of a foundation instead of ticking. Commonly offers non-skid characteristics.

Flanging: The process whereby a strip of fabric is sewn to the edge of the mattress cover and, in the assembly process, secured to the perimeter of the innerspring unit to prevent the cover and filling materials from shifting.

Foam foundation: Consists of a built-up wood slat frame covered with a sheet of cardboard or similar material, topped with at least 2” of foam and covered with ticking.

Foundation: Any base or support for a mattress, sometimes used as a generic term for box spring. A foundation may be made entirely of wood or a combination of wood and steel or steel springs. See Box Spring and Foam Foundation.

Futon: A Japanese-style mattress construction, consisting of a cover and filling material, which is typically cotton but can be innerspring and/or foam.

Garnetting: A mechanical process whereby short cotton fibers and/ or other fibers are combed into a specific orientation and formed into a thin web, which are then layered to create a batting used as an upholstery material. See Cotton Felt.

Gauge, coil: A measurement of the diameter of the steel wire used in coil construction. Wire gauge for innerspring coils range from 12.5 to 17. The higher the gauge, the thinner the wire.

Gel foam: Generally a visco-elastic foam that is infused with beads or swirls of gel during the foam pouring process.

Hair pads: Horse tail or mane, cattle tail or hog hair, which has been processed and curled for use as a mattress or upholstery filler.

Hammocking: An undesirable characteristic sometimes associated with worn out or low-end mattresses. When weight is placed in the center, the corners tend to rise and bow in response to deep compression much like a hammock. Terms “dish” and “sagging” also used to describe this phenomenon. Hand: Term used to describe the touch or feel of fabrics (e.g., soft, smooth, etc.).

Hand-tied: The process of hand-lacing the coils in a box spring together with twine. Seldom used, this process has been replaced with modern technology and new designs.

Headboard: An upright unit of wood, metal, plastic, or upholstered material, to be attached at the head of a bed, usually with the bed frame.

Helical: A tightly-coiled, elongated wire used in the manufacture of innerspring units to join individual coils to each other and to the border rod.

High-contour mattress: Measures 9” – 13” thick. A mattress under 9” thick is considered “standard”; over 13” thick is considered “custom.”

High riser: Usually a frame or sofa with two mattresses of equal size without a backrest. The frame slides out with the lower bed and rises to form a full bed or two single beds.

Hog ring: Metal ring used to secure the insulator and flange material to the innerspring unit. Takes its name from its similarity to the metal ring in a hog’s nose. inward from top to middle and outward from middle to bottom, thus resembling an hourglass in shape. Employed in bonnell and offset coil designs.

Hybrid: Commonly used industry term for a mattress that combines an innerspring unit with specialty foams such as visco-elastic or latex.

Ideal weight distribution: Equalization of support in such a way as to eliminate pressure points that cause discomfort resulting in tossing and turning. Best achieved with coil on coil construction and properly designed insulation and cushioning material.

Innerspring unit construction (for mattresses): The spring construction used as the main support system inside an innerspring mattress. Some common types are: pocketed (see Marshall) and all metal (i.e., bonnell, offset and continuous wire).

Insulator: Any material used on top and bottom of an innerspring unit to prevent the upholstery layers from cupping down into the coils. Some common types are: a fiber pad, non-woven fabric, netting, wire mesh or foam pad.

Knit: A basic polyester or nylon ticking fabric produced through a knitting process (tricot) rather than weaving. Designs are printed onto the surface.

Lacing wire: Finer gauges of wire used to form helicals.

Latex: A flexible foam created from a water dispersion of rubber, either from the rubber tree (natural latex) or a manmade, petroleum-based product (synthetic latex). Most latex used in mattresses today is a combination of natural and synthetic latex rubber.

LFK: An unknotted offset coil with a cylindrical or columnar shape.

Link fabric: A wire foundation for bedsprings, cots, studio couches, sofabed mechanisms and gliders. So called because the fabric is a succession of metal links.

Marshall: A type of innerspring construction in which thin gauge, barrel-shaped, knotless coils are encased in fabric pockets. Also known as “pocketed coils.”

Mattress: A manufactured product to sleep on, consisting of various resilient materials covered with an outer ticking. Comes from the Arabic term “matrah” meaning to throw down. Early Arabs traveled with their bedding and threw it down on the ground or floor at night.

Memory: The ability of tempered steel, foam or some fabrics to return to their original state after being compressed or stretched.

Mesh: Plastic netting generally stretched across the face of an innerspring unit as an insulator.

Microcoils: A low-profile metal spring unit, typically with individually wrapped coils, used in the top comfort layers of a mattress.

Molded foam core (for mattresses): A core made of flexible foam is made in molds and used as the main support system in a foam mattress.

Mounting: Attachment of a box spring unit to a wood or metal frame.

Needlepunched fabric: A manufacturing process for which high strength, lightweight, non-woven construction fabrics are produced. These fabrics are produced by garnetting fibers, entangling or

inner-locking these fibers together by a series of needles and then mechanically bonding or fusing them together via heat to produce a fabric without glue or binders.

Needlepunched pad: A manufacturing process used to produce insulator pads and non-woven fabrics whereby loose, garnetted fibers are inner-locked by a series of “needles.” This process usually requires additional bonding to keep the fibers in place.

Offset coils: An hourglass type coil on which portions of the top

and bottom convolutions have been flattened. In assembling the innerspring unit, these flat segments of wire are hinged together with helicals.

Orthopedic: Generalized term to imply set gives proper postural alignment and support. Should not necessarily mean hard or board feeling. Proper support with a degree of comfort to contour to the body is best.

Panel: The part of the ticking that constitutes the top sleep surface of a mattress, as well as the bottom of a mattress on a

two-sided bed.

Pedestal-type metal or wood bed frame: A low-profile bed frame with a solid pedestal base underneath each side of the frame, instead of legs.

Pillow-top mattress: A mattress featuring a surface finishing treatment where a separate encasement of soft materials is attached to the entire surface on top of existing cover and upholstery.

Plus 4 edge: Two border rods engineered with one inside of the other and designed so that they make the edge 4% firmer than the balance of the sleep surface to eliminate that “roll out of bed” feeling and edge sag.

Pocketed coil: See Marshall.

Polyurethane foam: See Urethane Foam.

Print: A ticking fabric, which can be a woven or non-woven sheeting, commonly of synthetic fiber composition, on which a design has been printed.

Quilting: The surface treatment in which the cover, foam and/or other fibers are sewn together, using various stitch patterns on quilting machinery, including scroll or panel quilters (single needle) and multi-needle quilters.

Resilience: Surface liveliness and spring-back ability.

Rollator test: An approximately 230 lb., six-sided roller is passed across a sleep set to determine the structural strengths or weaknesses of the set and components (i.e., foam or quilt failure, breaking of helicals and coils). The industry standard to duplicate the life of a mattress is 100,000 passes.

metal bed/cot with a frame that folds in half with the mattress when not in use so it can be rolled away into a closet (or elsewhere) for compact storage.

Sheeting: a woven or non-woven fabric other than knits that have a degree of sizing and are somewhat stiff.

Side rail: A metal or wood rail, which hooks into the outside edges of a headboard and footboard to provide the support base for a foundation and mattress.

Sisal: A product of the henequen plant formed into a pad and used as an insulator. Named after the. small port of Sisal in Yucatan.

Slats: Narrow strips of wood used to support the coils in the box spring frame. Also used in a bedstead to support the box spring.

Sleep Products Safety Council hangtag: Used voluntarily by bedding producers since 1987, the safety hangtag program provides critical consumer information about the safe use of sleep products. Manufacturers certify that they use the tag only on mattresses that meet the Federal Standard for the Flammability of Mattresses and Mattress Pads.The tag is available in a hangtag or permanent label.

Smooth top: A plain surfaced mattress, neither tufted nor quilted. Also called button-free.

Spring wire: Wire made from high carbon steel, characterized by toughness, strength and ductility. Typically furnished in 8 to 18 gauge for bedding industry applications.

Steel unit construction (for box springs): The spring construction used as the main support system inside a box spring.

Stitch bonded pad: See Fales Pad.

Straightline deflection: Pertains to mattress innerspring construction and refers to the constant ratio between stress and strain, weight and movement. The benefit is that constant support is provided regardless of the weight applied. No bottoming out of soft spots. Basically it means that two people of unequal weight, sleeping on the same mattress, receive the same support.

Stretch knit: A heavy-weight mattress ticking consisting of a top layer, bottom layer and filling material knitted together and intermittently stitched to keep the filling yarns stable.

Super zoned box spring frame: A support, generally wood, attached longitudinally to the underside of a foundation for added support where the main body weight rests. Another important structural point is that the vertical slats are turned on edge for added strength. This is extremely important on queen sizes and for 4-poster beds where typically

no center support is provided. Also known as a “center rail.”

Tape: Fabric material that closes over the rough-sewn edge where the top and bottom panels are joined to the border of a mattress or box spring.

Tape edge: A specified type of sewing machine designed to stitch binding tape around the top and bottom edges of the mattress, joining the panels with the border and closing the mattress.

Tempering: Heat treatment of wire to reduce brittleness. Accomplished by electric charge, oven heat or both. Also known as “stress relieved”.

Ticking: Fabrics for covering mattresses and foundations. Common types include: stretch knits, woven damasks, knits and nonwovens.

Torsion bars: A type of spring system used in box springs characterized by square-shaped wire forms.

Trundle bed: A low bed that is rolled under a larger bed. In some constructions, the lower bed springs up to form a full bed or two single beds as in a high riser.

Tufting: Consists of passing twine, cords or tape vertically through the mattress from top to bottom, knotting and securing the loops thus formed with tufts, buttons, or lacing. The purpose is to hold the mattress filling in place.

Uniflex grid: A steel wire grid used to bridge the “mouth” of the coils on an innerspring unit to prevent “pocketing” of insulation down into the coil and to eliminate “coil feel.” Also helps to distribute the body weight of a person.

Urethane foam: Synthetic (chemically foamed) flexible urethane used for mattress cores and as a cushioning material. As a core, it’s the main support system. Generic term covering both polyester and polyether foams.

Ventilator: Metal or plastic screens attached to the sides and sometimes the ends of mattresses to permit the passage of air. Unnecessary with normal high quality materials used today, except for hospital type mattresses with wetproof covers.

Visco-elastic foam: Also known as “memory foam.” Slow recovery urethane foams that are temperature sensitive. They conform to the body and distribute pressure according to body heat and dynamics.

Waterbed: A sleep system employing a water-filled vinyl bladder as its primary support system. Original models relied on rigid framing to contain the vinyl components and were known as a “hardside”. Newer styles consist of vinyl components (bladder and liner) typically encased in foam and made to look like a conventional mattress, usually paired with a regular upholstered foundation. Also called a “softside” waterbed. All versions are sometimes referred

to as “flotation beds.”

Welded grid top: Basic wire welded into a lattice to which box spring coils, formed wire or modules are fastened. Offers even weight distribution, yet allows some flex and give.

Wood bed: A bed with a headboard and footboard made of wood, having side rails of wood or metal that support the foundation and mattress.

Wood frame (for box springs): The wood frame in a box spring on which the spring construction is mounted.

Woven stripe: A once ubiquitous woven ticking with colored stripes. The style was referred to as “ACA”, the traditional designation for the 8 oz. blue- and white-striped ticking that has mostly fallen out of favor and is seldom produced.

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