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By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, November 23, 2003

High Point — Need to burn up a mattress or two to see if you can comply with California's proposed mattress flammability standards?

Producers who face that burning question have several options. There are at least half a dozen labs in the United States that have a dual burner developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an arm of the U.S. Department of Commerce. That burner, specified as the type that must be used in the California test, replicates the kinds of mattress fires that occur with burning bedclothes.

Here are some labs that do flammability testing in accord with the California standards:

California Bureau of Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation

Address: 3485 Orange Grove Ave., North Highlands, Calif., 95660-5595

Contact: Said Nurbakhsh

Phone: (916) 574-2064

Fax: (916) 574-2449

Govmark

Address: 96D Allen Blvd., Farmingdale, N.Y., 11735

Contact: Salvatore Messina

Phone: (631) 293-8944

Fax: (631) 293-8956

Omega Point Laboratories

Address: 16015 Shady Falls Road, Elmendorf, Texas, 78112

Contact: Chip Haby

Phone: (210) 635-8118

Fax: (210) 635-8101

S.G.S. U.S. Testing Co., Tulsa Branch

Address: 1341 N. 108th East Ave., Tulsa, Okla., 74116-5637

Contact: Dale Holloway

Phone: (800) 837-8747

Fax: (918) 437-8487

Southwest Research Institute

Address: 6620 Culebra Road, Building 143 Lab San Antonio, Texas 78238-0510

Contact: Anthony "Tony" Sauceda

Phone: (210) 522-3718

Fax: (210) 522-3377

Twin City Testing Corp.

Address: 662 Cromwell Ave., St.Paul, Minn., 55114

Contact: Brent Larson

Phone: (651) 659-7275

Fax: (651) 659-7348

Underwriters Laboratories

Address: 333 Pfingsten Road, Northbrook, Ill., 60062-2096

Contact: Bob Backstrom

Phone: (847) 272-8800

Fax: (847) 272-8129

The NIST dual burner specified by California can be purchased from Leggett & Platt. Contact John Kelley in the Machine Products Division, 1129 W. Fairview Ave., Carthage, Mo, 64836. His phone number is (417) 358-6136; the fax is (417) 358-8629.

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