Development of Eco Recycled Material to Replace PU Foam in the Mattress Industry

Texfelt是一家纤维专家，生产可回收的非织造材料，用于许多行业的再利用。它最近开发了一种替代聚氨酯泡沫用于地毯衬垫，是完全和容易回收。该团队将进行为期3个月的快速研发项目，设计一种适用于更广泛家具市场的新材料，并具有与地毯衬垫产品相似的经济生命周期效益。该团队将与几个分包商合作，并利用其在布拉德福德的创新和制造设施，将材料通过设计和开发阶段，然后根据用户需求和生产规模进行测试。

Texfelt is a fibre specialist, manufacturing recycled non-woven materials for reuse in a number of sectors. It has recently developed an alternative to polyurethane foam use in carpet underlay that is fully and easily recyclable.The team will undertake a 3-month rapid R&D project to design a new material that would be applicable for the wider furniture market and have similar economic lifecycle benefits as the carpet underlay product.The team will work with several subcontractors and utilise its innovation and manufacturing facility in Bradford to take the material through design and development stages to then test it for user requirements and production scale up.