PRODUCT FEATURE
Don’t let the bed bugs bite...
Bed bugs continue to be a problem for the hotel industry costing thousands in cleanup costs, compensation claims, and lost room nights. And mattresses are a classic breeding ground.
According to Blitz, a manufacturer of bed bug sprays, the past six years has seen a dramatic increase in bed bug infestations globally. It forecasts that the UK is currently at risk due to the influx of people travelling to the 2012 Olympic Games.
conscious sources that are biodegradable.
In addition, the unbleached cotton mattress covers are guaranteed anti-bed bug through a treatment of natural geraniol. These credentials have lead to two large contracts being won, the supply of 686 mattresses to Yotel New York City, and 303 mattresses for the first three Z Hotels across the UK. Coco-mat also produces its mattresses
from natural renewable materials such as coco fibre, natural rubber, wool, cotton, sea grass, horsehair, silk, linen, wood and goose down. The mattresses have recently been installed at the newly-refurbished guestrooms at Jumeirah Carlton Tower, London. Meanwhile Dormeo has launched what
it believes to be the first true mattress innovation in over twenty years. According to the firm, traditional spring mattresses have their problems while memory foam restricts airflow making the body hot and humid, disrupting a restful night’s sleep. To resolve these issues, designer Willy Poppe has created the revolutionary Octaspring bed. The mattress consists of single or multiple
layers of eight-sided honeycomb springs, each with innovative 3D air-mesh sides to encourage ventilation. Evolving from the metal spring bed, Octaspring takes the best that steel spring technology can offer and combines it with the best of memory foam technology. This works in exactly the opposite way to metal springs. Where metal springs push up, resisting the force that is applied to them, each Octaspring accepts the force, conforming and cradling the body. While many of these products are designed
for contract use, hotels increasingly wish to sell their sleep experience to guests. Westin is so confident about the comfort and performance of its Heavenly Bed, it can now be purchased through Westin Home Collection. Manufactured by Simmons exclusively for the group, the 13-inch no-flip pillow-top mattress was custom designed to create the perfect foundation for deep, calming sleep, complemented by plush pillows, crisp sheets and a fluffy duvet. Sounds heavenly.
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Sealy has developed a new technology called BugShield that is designed to combat and prevent bed bug infestations. The BugShield fibres in the beds and mattresses contain a special form of biocide, which is guaranteed skin-safe and kills bed bugs whilst creating an inhospitable environment to prevent further infestations. BugShield offers a 100% bed bug mortality rate with 90% killed off within a period of 24 hours.
Hypnos has partnered with HHL Technology to launch Vital Protection – a revolutionary new bed treatment to help eliminate bed bugs. The fabric impregnation treatment can be added to any of Hypnos’ new mattresses and is designed to provide long-lasting protection against bed bugs. Vital Protection cannot be washed off and is completely invisible and odourless, having no negative impact on the fabric’s fire-retardancy properties.
© Mike Evans
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