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 Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2013 9:23 am Post subject: double mattresses |
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Jamison Pillow Top Mattresses - Made Without Using Harmful Adhesives
Consumers like pillow top mattresses as they provide better support than the more traditional inner spring mattress. However, many manufacturers use glues to join the mattress to the pillow top using substances that can be carcinogenic. Jamison, and other manufacturers like Restonic and Justice, now uses safer methods of construction.
During the 1980s and 1990s the adhesive used by mattress manufacturers was based on 1,1,1-trichloroethane (TCA), a chlorinated solvent. TCA adhesive was ideal as it evaporated rapidly leaving an instant bond. It also was classed as a low toxin, had no flash point and was not classed as a volatile organic compound - this produces photochemical smog. However, it has one major problem: during the late 1990s it was classed as an ozone depleting substance and production of TCA base adhesives was phased out.
Adhesive manufacturers then began offering adhesives based on methylene chloride. Like its predecessor, TCA, METH based adhesive evaporated quickly, had no flash point and cost about the same. Many mattress manufacturers favoured this form of adhesive until METH was shown to be carcinogenic. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a regulation on METH that lowered the worker exposure level from 500 ppm to 25 ppm. Many still feel that the use of METH should be avoided altogether but sadly many mattress manufacturers still bond the mattress and pillow top with this type of adhesive.
The latest innovation is something called hot melt adhesives. These, unlike TCA and METH, are 100 percent solids. The use of hot melt adhesive requires some new equipment and manufacturing techniques; something some mattress manufacturers have been slow or reluctant to adopt.
Jamison has now switched to using hot melt adhesives in the production of their pillow top mattresses.
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http://www.bedframeswarehouse.co.uk/double-mattress/
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