Flammability

• Lilly Group offers mattress compliance certificate

  David Perry, October 30, 2008
  ST. CHARLES, Ill. — The Lilly Management Group is offering a new certificate of compliance program designed to help U.S. mattress producers meet the requirements of a new Consumer Product Safety Commission standard regarding mattress flammability that takes effect Nov. 12.  More

• Serta recalls mattresses over flammability

  Larry Thomas, October 28, 2008
  WASHINGTON — Bedding major Serta International has voluntarily recalled about 6,100 polyurethane foam mattresses that don't meet new federal flammability standards that went into effect last year, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.  More

• Study: Furniture FR rule leads to toxins

  Heath Combs, October 3, 2008
  NEWTON, Mass. - A new study reports that because of California's furniture flammability standard, the state's residents and their homes contain high levels of the toxic flame retardant PBDE.  More

• Readers air views on FR, ISPA numbers, price hikes

  David Perry, Executive Editor, August 4, 2008
  Today my readers get their say. My June 16 column about setting the record straight on the safety of fire-resistant mattresses provoked one reader to blast me for writing "a false article on the FR chemicals in mattresses." My critic continued: "Since you are not interested in the facts, I won't waste my time sharing them here.  More

• Grant to fund furniture flammability study

  By Michael J. Knell, July 14, 2008
  OTTAWA — An assistant professor of engineering at Carleton University here has received a grant of as much as $25,000 from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. to study the role of upholstered furniture in house fires. Ehab Zalok is leading the project, one of several funded under the federal housing agency whose goal is to improve the quality of housing in Canada.  More

• Time to set record straight: FR solutions deemed safe

  David Perry, Executive editor, June 16, 2008
  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 dangerous chemicals to add fire-resistant protection to their mattresses and speak darkly about  More

• AHFA seeks modifications to FR proposal

  By Furniture Today Staff, June 9, 2008
  HIGH POINT — The American Home Furnishings Alliance has requested that the Consumer Product Safety Commission make several modifications to its proposed rule on upholstered furniture flammability. In comments filed with the federal agency, the AHFA commended the CPSC staff for focusing the proposed standard on smoldering ignition risks which the association said is the predominant...  More

• Foam producers agree to fire settlement

  By Furniture Today Staff, May 13, 2008
  BOSTON Leggett mp; Platt and three other foam producers have agreed in principle to pay $30 million to victims of a 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire that killed more than 100 people, according to a Reuters story.  More

• Berkley: CPSC, AHFA wrong to push new furniture FR standard

  By Furniture Today Staff, April 21, 2008
  As chair of the Upholstery Fabrics Committee of the National Textile Assn., I want to address the furniture flammability standard proposed by the Consumer Product Safety Commission covered in the March 10 edition of Furniture/Today. The issue of furniture flammability has been the subject of nearly three decades of research, testing and discussion, yet the CPSC has chosen to discard everything ...  More

• FR compliance lacking?

  By David Perry, March 31, 2008
  Baltimore — A majority of U.S. mattress producers aren't in compliance with the federal mattress flammability standard that took effect last summer, a bedding consultant said here. Scott Frisch, president of Frisch Enterprises, which does fire resistance consulting work, said that the "silent majority" of bedding producers don't comply with the standard, which requires mattresses to pass a...  More

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