At Jones Nonwovens, ‘Mother Natural’ voiced strong approval of the company’s green efforts.
Photos Bert VanderVeen
Yes, “Mother Natural” went a little wild at the Jones Nonwovens booth (right). Sometimes things get out of hand at ISPA EXPO. It’s thrilling to see so many innovations in mattress components and manufacturing equipment, all in one place. You get sensory overload. This is the bedding industry’s biggest equipment and components exhibition, after all.
While the May print edition of BedTimes will feature complete coverage of ISPA EXPO 2018 in Charlotte, March 14-16, below are a number of photo galleries featuring some of the fabrics, foams, springs and machinery introduced at the show. These are just highlights. We wish we had time to see and report everything.
But, first, check out these ISPA EXPO shopping scenes, as well as some memorable moments and interesting displays.
Show shoppers and show stoppers
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- Reviewing the floor plan
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- A view of Hickory Springs’ booth
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- At Jomel
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- Chilling at Carpenter Co.
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- Shopping at Transfer Master
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- At Talalay Global
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- At the Ko-Si booth
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- Retail Mattress Solutions had a cat astronaut graphic!
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- Choose your fill.
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- At Tietex
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- Shopping at Monks
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- Jones Nonwovens invited Mother Natural to the show to talk about the company’s ‘green’ efforts.
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- Choosing corner guards
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- No photos allowed! :-)
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- No photos allowed! :-)
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- Time to relax
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- Time to relax
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- Time to mingle
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- Wright Global Graphics’ cool laser-etched headboard
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- Enter here!
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- Celebrating the 10th anniversary of CertiPUR-US with Helen and Michael
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- Picking fabrics
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- Texas Pocket Springs demonstrated its coiler.
Fun fabrics:
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- Tietex new FR super-stretch laminate
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- Muller Textiles USA spacer fabric wall display
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- Carved lacquer vase design motif at Tianye Jacquard Co. Ltd.
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- Fine Cotton Factory tribute to the city of Charlotte
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- Shopping for ticking
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- Innofa textural knit mattress cover
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- Bart Desmet of Maes Mattress Ticking and a luxurious damask in the color of the year
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- Sewn mattress cover concept from Enriquez Materials & Quilting Inc.
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- Duvalli decorates the bed frame with its knits.
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- Culp tissue-pick woven ticking
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- Furry concept bed at Culp CLASS/A. Lava showroom
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- Culp mattress ticking
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- BekaertDeslee enters the Bronze Age
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- BekaertDeslee ornate bronzed knit panel
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- Inside BekaertDeslee’s busy showroom
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- New uses for AEC Narrow Fabrics–on pillows!
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- A. Lava embroidery close-up with ISPA EXPO logo
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- Puzzle-piece concept bed at the A. Lava/Culp/CLASS space
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- Lava Textiles
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- UT+C Perimeter Plus pocketed foam seat edge for mattresses
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- Springs Creative’s Caroline Reeves walks on clouds–in cloud skirt.
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- Stellini’s one-piece woven bed borders
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- Tricots Liesse gray and silver knit
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- Elfa’s Cindy and McCall with some of their fabric creations
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- CT Nassau Hybrid collection of smooth knits
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- Boyteks adds drama with a geometric ticking.
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- Bowi-Styl multicolored knit
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- Lava Textiles
Foam, latex and more:
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- Milliken & Co. Reactint Colorants for polyurethane foam yields bright results.
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- Legget & Platt sign about roll-packing compatibility
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- Leggett & Platt Nanocoil Edge microcoils closeup
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- Leggett & Platt’s Mark Kinsley holds roll-pack ready Nanocoil Edge microcoils.
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- FoamPartner Group concept core for a foam mattress
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- Future Foam introduced three new foam technologies.
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- Latex Global’s injection-molded, channeled graphite-infused topper
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- latex
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- Assemble your bed with the Latexco Configurator app
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- Flexima resin springs for foam beds allow better ventilation.
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- Enkev wool fiber for bedding
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- Enkev’s Matt Dwyer holds wool from Wools of New Zealand growers cooperative.
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- Elite Comfort Solutions AquaCool pillow
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- Carpenter introduces Rely foam
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- Leggett & Platt’s Mark Kinsley holds roll-pack ready Nanocoil Edge microcoils.
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- Leggett & Platt’s RTA Eagan foundation
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- MountainTop Foam molded foam seat-edge with latex and spring cores
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- Foam selection at Future Foam
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- Carpenter Co. foam airflow test
Some mattress and pillow manufacturing equipment in action:
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- Maxime knit collection
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- Global Systems Group’s Quarrata Forniture Sahara infrared adhesive drying system
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- Global Systems Group’s Porter International belt table auto-flanger
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- Paul Block with Global Systems Group gives a thumbs-up to the Gribetz Spectrum high-speed multihead quilter.
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- A sample mattress panel produced on GSG’s Spectrum quilter
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- Alessio Brighi demonstrates Brighi Easy Stitch.
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- Atlanta Attachment Co.’s Hank Little with the 1332FTS Foundation Truss Stapler
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- Atlanta Attachment Co. 1967-AX-IR Infrared Curing Oven for foam mattress assembly lines
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- Atlanta Attachment HSView live inventory management
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- Atlanta Attachment Mattress Topper Packaging equipment
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- Atlanta Attachment Thermo-Label Transfer Machine in action
