Foam Design Inc. history

However, commercial production of flexible foam in Europe started in 1954.

Yost worked on the designing team for NASA’s 1962 moon command modules.

Yost completed his open-cell foam invention in 1966.

After his NASA contract ended in 1967, Yost formed his own company Dynamic Systems, Inc. (DSI) and continued to make improvements to the foam’s design.

TA Associates, a growth capital firm founded in 1968, had become aware of Tempur-Pedic a year earlier when an associate saw one of the company’s mattresses at a friend’s house.

For example, Beckton-Dickinson purchased the foam formula in 1974 for use as a liner inside football helmets.

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In this way Trussell learned about the Tempur-Pedic Swedish Mattress and in 1991 met with a Fagerdala executive.

With an expanded sales force, by the end of 1995 Tempur-Pedic was a $14 million company.

In 1999 Tempur-Pedic, Fagerdala’s Dan Foam subsidiary, and eight other distributors around the world were merged under a holding company called Tempur World, majority owned by Fagerdala.

After ten years Tempur-Pedic posted average yearly sales increases of 49 percent, with sales reaching the $150 million range in 2002.

A third-generation, released in 2006, implemented gel.