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OVERVIEW
The Foam Fabricating Adhesives group designs, manufactures, and provides a complete line of adhesive solutions for foam fabricating applications, which are the bonding of cushioning materials that are found in mattress and furniture manufacturing operations. Our adhesive line includes water-based, hot melt, reactive moisture curing prepolymers, and solvent-based, including VOC-free solvent-based adhesives.
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Mattress
YOUR TRUSTED SUPPLY PARTNER
We are a unique supplier to the industry as we formulate and manufacture all types of adhesives including: water based, hot melt, solvent based, reactive, and extruded film adhesives. This allows our customers to choose the right adhesive for their application based on cost per part, efficiency in labor, and user safety, meeting ever-changing regulatory mandates.
Our customers look to us as experts in the industry for decades. Click here to see a recent article we wrote about the use of Propyl Bromide in mattress fabrication.


DEDICATED TO R&D
Worthen Industries is dedicated to sustainable innovation. This dedication is evidenced by their investment into state-of-the-art research and development laboratories in all our facilities that focus efforts on specific markets of expertise.
The Foam Fabricating R&D laboratory is in Richmond, VA and is staffed with formulating and design professionals devoted to providing customer solutions, and resolution of pain points, for customer foam fabricating operations.
Our R&D team routinely identify solutions for the latest problems that are encountered in the constantly changing mattress and furniture manufacturing processes. With our mattress build laboratory we can resolve manufacturing bottle necks, environmental regulatory issues, operator or consumer safety matters or technology changes, by having the ability to exactly duplicate the assembly of full-size mattresses in house.
OUR SOLUTION, YOUR SUCCESS
“The airless technology for spray application is hands down better than any water-based system that I have witnessed. It takes all the glue fog [away] and puts [the adhesive] on the product that is being laminated rather than up an exhaust or settling on surrounding surfaces. We were fortunate to be able to work with UPACO on some of the development of the systems.”
Mike Holliday, Senior Management, Manufacturing HSM

MEET THE TEAM
Pat Poloquin
Customer Success Administrator
Direct #: 603-821-5932
Ian Churcher
R&D Lab Manager
Industry News
Worthen Industries Supports Footwear Industry Through Special Adhesives - As reported by Medium in their article “Types of Glues Used in Footwear Industry,” adhesives are a vital component of the footwear industry. “The footwear industry is a well-known industry which has served years in styling up your feet. Whether it is a sandal or shoes, all needs to be perfectly crafted…,” Medium said. Click … Continue reading Worthen Industries Supports Footwear Industry Through Special Adhesives
Worthen Industries Utilizes Paper Converting to Create Top of the Line Paper Products - As explained by About Mechanics in their article “What is Paper Converting?,” paper converting is used to create a variety of paper products such as envelopes, boxes, and paper bags and requires many different techniques. “Operations involved in paper converting may include treating, slitting, sheeting, grooving, punching, and folding. Some operations may also call for … Continue reading Worthen Industries Utilizes Paper Converting to Create Top of the Line Paper Products
Worthen Industries Helps to Further Education of Hot Melt Adhesives - As reported by IQS Directory in their article “Hot Melt Adhesives,” these adhesives, also called glue adhesives, are used for a vast variety of applications. “Due to their flexibility, ease of application, and low melting points as compared to other adhesive types, hot melt adhesives are appropriate and suitable for many different substrates or materials,” … Continue reading Worthen Industries Helps to Further Education of Hot Melt Adhesives