About a week ago, I explained how Purple Innovation Inc. built a factory near Atlanta to make its urethane-based foam mattresses.
Today, one of its competitors, China Healthcare Co.Ltd., which sells Mlily brand-reminiscent foam mattresses, announced that it has leased approximately 650,000 square feet of production area near Phoenix for its current U.S. plant.
He plans to employ three hundred in Arizona. The Phoenix joins another Mlily plant in Winnsboro, South Carolina, which opened in 2019.
It’s a boom year for mattresses, with imports to the U.S. Up to 39% in the first six months of 2020 to 8.8 million mattresses, according to our sister publication Urethanes Technology International. Production of these mattresses has been moved from China to regions such as Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia, as well as new production in the United States.
Purple Innovation, in Lehi, Utah, said its sales increased 54% in the first part of 2020.
Why all this growth? Most likely, the coronavirus pandemic. With plans canceled, other people stay at home and instead invest their vacation money in pieces such as terraces, pools and beds.
The call to use more recycled plastics comes from space (metaphorically speaking). On August 17, the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries announced a new official position on the minimum recycled plastic content, which it believes will inspire more use of recycled plastics.
This includes ‘legislation extending the use of recycled plastic in appropriate applications, noting that those grades will vary depending on the application and type of plastic’.
It also supports measures taken through brands to increase their use of recycled plastics beyond any legislative objective, paintings that include “design for recycling” initiatives, public education efforts and life cycle assessment.
“Plastics are a varied and flexible organization of tissues used in almost every facet of daily life, from important medical materials to light food packaging,” ISRI wrote in a press release. “However, despite the benefits of plastics, many remained involved in the maximum degrees of plastic waste entering the herbal environment. For additional environmental damage, it is imperative that all plastics be treated responsibly at the end of their lives.”
It’s been a few weeks for Formosa Plastics Corp. USA, especially its Point Comfort, Texas plant.
First, unforeseen production disorders in which they were part of a force majeure constraint on polypropylene sales. Now, disruptions in PVC production at Point Comfort and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, have also led Formosa to restrict sales of this material.
The company provided some key points on the nature of these problems.
Formosa is expected to appear as a component of Polymer Points’ live stream at 2 p.m. Today it is with senior journalist Frank Esposito and editor-in-chief Don Loepp, available exclusively to Plastics News subscribers. Click here for more information.
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