In Russia, the world's first industrial machine for recycling mattresses was invented.

      Russian engineers have created unique equipment that, for the first time, makes it possible to recycle mattresses industrially rather than by hand. The development makes the process three times faster than existing foreign counterparts and virtually waste-free, opening a new segment of the circular economy for the furniture industry.

      Until now, recycling mattress spring units was considered an extremely difficult task — they had to be disassembled manually, which made the process expensive and unsafe. The new Russian machine solves this problem: it automatically extracts the springs with minimal damage, allowing the metal to be reused after sorting and sanitary treatment.

      The equipment can process more than 12,000 spring units per month, reduces energy consumption and makes the process safe for operators. In the future the technology will allow processing up to 150,000 mattresses per year and significantly reduce the industry's environmental footprint.

      Experts note that there are currently no equivalents of such industrial technology in either Europe or China. The Russian development could become the basis for a new international standard for furniture recycling, and the recovered materials would be reused — for example, in the production of rebar, pipes and other industrial products.