Inside Sealy's regulatory lab mattresses meet flames
David Perry -- Furniture Today, December 6, 2011
ARCHDALE, N.C. — I lit a couple of fires at Sealy the other day. And those fires led to a burning mattress and foundation.
No worries, though. It was all part of the plan for a tour of Sealy's regulatory lab here, a freestanding building on the edge of Sealy's campus.
Sealy invited me inside the burn lab for an update on the flammable activity going on there. Sealy opened the facility, the only burn lab operated by a bedding producer, in 2004. It represented a $1 million-plus investment by Sealy at that time.
Literally thousands of beds have been burned in the lab since Brad McCollum, manager of regulatory compliance, joined Sealy eight years ago. He put the total at somewhere between 8,000 and 9,000.
*Publisher's Note: For the complete 16-page Bedding Yearbook, see our 29 November print issue of Furniture Today. For the exclusive digital version, click here.
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