In Europe alone, 30 million mattresses are dumped each year and 18 million of them are disposed of in landfills. Since 2013, Ikano Industry’s R&D department has finetuned their ground-breaking technology to chemically recycle foam. The result is repoliol, a raw material suitable for production of new foam products like sofas and mattresses, keeping the post-consumer foam out of landfills.

What started out as a solution to recycling Ikano Industry’s own foam waste has now been developed into a scalable technology, allowing us to take in external foam waste from other suppliers and recycling it. With this investment, we are definitely taking the next step in our journey to become fully circular in our production.

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