Inside the Factory - Season 5 - Eps 4: Mattresses
How a factory in Leeds produces 600 bouncy beds every day - from making steel into springs, to their placement in individual pockets and covering in natural fibres like hemp and wool designed to wick away sweat. How a short, twenty-minute sleep improves reaction times. How wool is shorn from sheep, and its inherent anti-bacterial and fire-retardant properties that make it well suited to mattresses. How the modern spring mattress evolved. How a famous Scandinavian-inspired home store is responsible for popularizing the duvet.
About Inside the Factory

Title: Inside the Factory
First Air Date: 2015-05-05
Last Air Date: 2025-02-04
Status: Returning Series
Rating: 7.692/10 (from 13 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 10
Total Episodes: 69
Network: BBC Two
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Voltage TV
Synopsis
Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey get exclusive access to some of the largest factories in Britain to reveal the secrets behind production on an epic scale.
Cast

Paddy McGuinness
Self - Presenter

Cherry Healey
Self - Presenter

Ruth Goodman
Self - Presenter