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The Consumer Products Safety Commission has issued a recall of mattresses from home furnishings retailer Ikea due to violation of federal mattress flammability standards.
Ikea recalls 1,900 Mexican-made mattresses - 2010-06-08 13:14:57 | Furniture Today
WASHINGTON — Retail giant Ikea has recalled about 1,900 mattresses sold at its U.S. stores that don't meet federal mattress flammability standards.
Flammability Tests for Bedding Continue - 2006-03-27 05:00:00 | Home Textiles Today
New York — The Home Fashion Products Association (HFPA) urges members to keep alert that the bedding flammability issue is still active. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is awaiting results of a new range of “Precision and Bias” flammability tests now underway by the California Bureau of
Flammability tests for bedding still ongoing - 2006-03-20 18:32:00 | Home Textiles Today
New York -- The Home Fashion Products Association (HFPA) urges members to keep alert that the bedding flammability issue is still active. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is awaiting results of a new range of "Precision and Bias" flammability tests now underway by the California Bureau
China: A Call for Enforcement - 2007-07-09 04:00:00 | Home Textiles Today
There has been the age-old challenge of intellectual property rights (IPR) violations in dealing with the Chinese. It's almost a given in the entertainment world, albeit, not an acceptable given. And the problem has spread across product lines to the design work of American fabric and home
Time to set record straight: FR solutions deemed safe - 2008-06-16 00:00:00 | Furniture Today
A small but vocal group of fearmongers is making some outrageous claims about the alleged dangers of chemicals in mattresses. These misguided marketers are doing a grave disservice to an industry that takes its corporate citizenship seriously. The fearmongers claim that mattress producers are using
Louisville Bedding Promotes FireDefender - 2007-09-17 04:00:00 | Home Textiles Today
Louisville Bedding, manufacturer of the trademarked FireDefender two-piece flame resistant mattress and foundation cover introduced earlier this year, is supporting National Fire Prevention Month – October – with free point-of-sale materials for retailers. Retailers can visit the Press Room section
Lilly group program aims to simplify FR compliance - 2006-08-07 00:00:00 | Furniture Today
A fire-resistant mattress program offered by an industry consulting group aims to take the complexity out of a new federal mattress flammability standard. That U.S. standard, which goes into effect July 1, 2007, poses a series of challenges for mattress producers, some of which still have a lot of
Mattress flammability issue heating up again - 2006-08-07 00:00:00 | Furniture Today
The mattress flammability issue is heating up across the United States, in Canada and in China. Bedding producers and suppliers around the world are feeling the ripples of a tough new federal open flame standard for mattresses sold in the United States, which goes into effect next July.
Bemco develops FR marketing materials - 2007-09-24 00:00:00 | Furniture Today
Bemco thinks retailers really should run fire sales. Make that, Bemco Fire-Tec sales. The manufacturer is one of the few bedding companies to see marketing opportunities in the new federal open flame mattress standard, which went on the books July 1. It has developed an ad campaign that touts
