L&P sets Jan. Vegas bedding components show
By David Perry -- Furniture Today, December 18, 2005
Las Vegas — Components kingpin Leggett & Platt will hold its own trade show here for bedding makers in conjunction with next month's Las Vegas market.
The "Leggett Presents" event will feature machinery from L&P's Global Systems Group, and innersprings, foam and fiber from the L&P Bedding Components and Hanes units.
The show will be held Jan. 30–Feb. 1 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Hall 2 South. The dates overlap with the Las Vegas furniture market, which continues on later into the week.
The L&P event adds more bedding firepower to the Vegas market. Most major bedding producers are now committed to show at the January market, and the L&P event adds another dimension.
Attendees will see the latest developments in quilting machines, sewing machines, conveyors and related equipment from the Global Systems Group.
Leggett also will hold seminars at its show. "Fire Retardancy Compliance and How to Prepare" will be presented by flammability expert Gordon Damant and Robert Backstrom, a fire protection engineer with Underwriters Laboratories. Sessions on global supply chains and on lean manufacturing will be presented by Randall Wood, L&P's director of optimization-operations.
Marketing and retail point-of-purchase ideas for bedding will be presented in a special display area at the show.
Here are some of the product highlights on tap:
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Gribetz will offer "the most complete collection of quilting machines ever shown." They include the Axiom, "the most advanced quilting machine in the world," paired with the Omni Cutter, "the first-ever center cut panel cutter."
Other Gribetz offerings include the redesigned and re-engineered Reliance M+, Centrixx, "the first dual-head chain-stitch machine that sews a full range of single-needle scroll patterns," and Legacy, a new quilting machine.
Gribetz also will show its automatic mattress/foundation packaging system, The Wrapper. The TapeMaster is a new tape edge machine for high-volume mattress manufacturers designed to sew heavy premium mattresses. -
Porter will show its wide range of sewing machines and systems, many of which are new. Also on tap are high-speed border machines, flange machines, tape edge machines, ruffle machines and label sewers.
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Hanes will show its IntePlus XF film, which it said provides superior protection for a wide range of products.
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L&P Bedding Components and Hanes Non-Wovens will be showing innovations in innersprings, foam and fiber.
To register online, go to www.leggettpresents.com.
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