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IndustryNews<br />
Creative Ticking adds TioTec to its portfolio<br />
Creative Ticking, a division of Beverly<br />
Knits, in Gastonia, N.C., has introduced<br />
a new FR product, TioTec.<br />
TioTec is a patent-pending, twoin-one<br />
technology that “offers the<br />
comfort and feel of quality knitted<br />
ticking with a knit-in fire barrier.” It’s<br />
designed to provide mattress manu-<br />
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70 | BedTimes | April 2010<br />
facturers with a single FR product<br />
that can replace FR socks, as well as<br />
constructions that use nonwoven FR<br />
barriers combined with regular ticking.<br />
It also is available in a TioTec Free<br />
<strong>version</strong> manufactured without the use<br />
of melamine, animony, chlorine or<br />
many other chemicals.<br />
800.533.6522 • www.springscreative.com<br />
The product was showcased during<br />
ISPA EXPO 2010 in Charlotte, N.C.,<br />
which Jerry Pratt described as the<br />
relatively new company’s “coming out<br />
party.” Pratt is president of Creative<br />
Ticking.<br />
Parent company Beverly Knits has<br />
long made a variety of fabric products,<br />
everything from intimate<br />
apparel to tractor seats.<br />
“To stay in those businesses we<br />
have to invent and invest in new<br />
products,” said Ron Sytz, Beverly<br />
Knits president. “We’re bringing<br />
all that experience to the mattress<br />
ticking market.” Among other<br />
products Creative Ticking promoted<br />
during EXPO was its Classics<br />
and Classic Free lines of ticking.<br />
Shorts<br />
L&P ‘energizes’ winner<br />
Leggett & Platt’s Consumer<br />
Products Group, with headquarters<br />
in Carthage, Mo.,<br />
has announced the winner of<br />
its “Energized Performance”<br />
weekend getaway drawing,<br />
held during the Las Vegas Market<br />
in February. Gary Trudell,<br />
owner of Custom Comfort<br />
Mattress Co. in Anaheim, Calif.,<br />
received the golf and spa<br />
getaway for two.<br />
Sealy cuts environmental impact<br />
Archdale, N.C.-based mattress<br />
major Sealy reports that it has<br />
saved $1.2 million in fuel costs,<br />
reduced carbon dioxide emissions<br />
by almost 9%, saved more<br />
than $4 million in material costs<br />
and reduced manufacturing<br />
scrap by 650 tons since becoming<br />
part of Kohlberg Kravis<br />
Roberts & Co.’s Green Portfolio<br />
Program. The firm, based in<br />
New York, is Sealy’s majority<br />
owner.<br />
www.sleepproducts.org/bedtimes
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