Mattress · Border
Border automation.
Automation for sewing mattress borders and carry handles at production speed.
The border category
What border and handle work does.
A mattress border is the upright band of fabric that wraps the perimeter and joins the top and bottom panels, and the carry handles are the reinforced grips a customer uses to move the finished mattress. Border and handle work places both, and it is one of the most placement sensitive steps on the floor. A handle that drifts an inch between the first mattress of the shift and the last is a handle a customer notices, and a warranty claim waiting to happen.
The machine landscape in this category runs from single purpose handle machines to combination border stations that sew handles, attach ventilators and corner guards, and tape the border edge in one indexed pass. Fully automatic units hold a programmed placement across a run; operator assisted stations trade some speed for faster changeover, which matters more to a plant that runs many sizes and cover styles than to one running long single SKU batches.
Border and handle sewing sits in the middle of the line, after the panel is squared and before tape edge closes the mattress, so its pace has to match the stations on either side. Sizing a border station means weighing how many handle and border styles you actually run, whether you want ventilators and corner guards added at the same station, and how much floor the unit needs alongside the panel and tape edge machines it feeds.
14 in the border catalog
Choosing a machine
How to choose a border and handle machine.
The variables that decide which station fits your line. Tell us where you land on each and we will point you to the right machine.
- Automation level
Fully automatic programmed placement for long runs, or operator assisted for frequent size changes.
- Operations combined
Handles alone, or handles plus ventilators, corner guards, and border taping in one pass.
- Border and handle range
The border heights and handle styles the station handles without retooling.
- Line integration
How the unit indexes material and lines up with the panel and tape edge stations.
In this category
Border machines.
A representative station from the border category. The full model list comes online with the live build.
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