HENKEL leads the way in adhesives used in mattress manufacturing

Henkel is an international brand offering water-based and hotmelt type of adhesives used for mattress manufacturing. Contrary to solvent-based adhesives, these are completely harmless for human health and for the environment. Henkel is leading in technology and innovation in adhesives thereby helping the health of the sector, environment, labors and users. We have conducted an interview with a manager of the company to get details of their success and mission.

Will you mention your services to the mattress industry?

As is known, mattress manufacturers started to use different components and technologies in order to improve the comfort of consumers and to offer different alternatives and innovative solutions. Henkel offers adhesives used for usage of a lot of components in harmony and help durability and long life of a mattress. While doing this, Henkel gives first priority to offer sustainable products which are environmentally friendly not being hazardous for the nature. Henkel’s commitment to leadership in sustainability is deeply embedded in our values. Maintaining a balance between economic success, protection of the environment, and social responsibility has been fundamental to our corporate culture for decades. This approach applies to every business unit and function, and our about 50,000 employees all over the world have firmly embraced the principles of sustainable development in their daily work and think and act accordingly.

What kind of adhesives are you manufacturing? What are the functions of these adhesives?

Henkel has been serving this sector all around the world by water-based Hotmelt PSA and Hotmelt EVA adhesives used for sticking foam, felt, fabric, etc. layers and making foam mattresses and pocket spring mattress manufacturing with the brand names TECHNOMELT and AQUENCE.

Technology has been helping for developing new products through R&D studies. What are the reflections of this fact to your sector? What kinds of R&D studies are you carrying out?

Henkel is the leading name in the adhesive sector with its R&D studies in the world. It has 17 R&D centers around the world. The company has been continuing to develop technologies for the health and comfort of the users, quality expectations, productivity of the product, cost, health of labors, etc. at the maximum level. The best example of this is replacing the technology of solvent-based adhesives, which have been used often around the world and threating human health and environment, with environmentally friendly water-based or hotmelt adhesive technologies.

What are the production differences between the facilities and methods in Turkey and in the world? Which countries are the best in this field? Where is Turkey positioned at this regard?

As is the case for many sectors, the consumer trends, purchasing power and regulations matter in this sector, too. The materials used in manufacturing vary from country to country, from culture to culture. For instance, the adhesives used in Africa or Far East host materials preventing easy-to-stick ingredients, the ones in America or Europe have to confirm certain standards. Manufacturing conditions are also different in most cases. European and American manufacturers have faster facilities, for instance, while the system is more dominated to human force rather than automation or technology. I can proudly say that Turkey has recently positioned itself to the upper level countries with the progresses recorded in recent years. We can also say that Turkey has left some European countries and started to compete with the most important mattress manufacturing countries such as the USA and Brazil.

Are the adhesives important for the human health? Is there a risk of affecting human health negatively?

This depends on what kind of adhesive is used for mattress manufacturing. The water-based and hotmelt types of adhesives manufactured by Henkel have no negative effect on human health nor on the environment.

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