• The Montpellier company Ecomatelas bet in 2017 on the reconditioning of mattresses.

    This year, it will spend the million euros in turnover.

  • This SME collects mattresses from large hotel groups, specialized stores, but also individuals, via eco-organizations mandated by the State.

  • The cover is not kept, the company only keeps the heart of the mattress.

    Then she gives him shock treatment, to make him look like new.

You might be using a refurbished smartphone, scooter or vacuum cleaner. But could you sleep on a refurbished mattress? Yes, if we refer to the generous curves of Ecomatelas. This Montpellier start-up, which bet in 2017 on the reconditioning of second-hand mattresses, has shown exponential growth since its creation, and will spend one million euros in turnover this year. And since October 10, it has been delivering its products throughout France, thanks to Mazet, a transport company, located near its workshops in Saint-Aunès (Hérault).

It was while talking with his uncle, a bedding professional, that Jérémie Adjedj had the idea of ​​creating this company: he realized that many hotels anxious to renew their bedding, or specialized stores, threw, regularly, mattresses at the recycling center.

“We said to ourselves that we could perhaps give these mattresses a second life, rather than throwing them away,” says Jérémie Adjedj.

Especially since these are mattresses still in very good condition, and of very good quality.

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"At the end of our process, it is all clean, all beautiful, brand new"

The SME, which now reconditions 400 to 500 mattresses each month, recovers mattresses all over France, from large hotel groups, but also from manufacturers, who sell them products at the end of the collection or which have small defects. “Before these mattresses were thrown away, while they are new,” notes the entrepreneur. The SME finally recovers the mattresses collected by eco-organizations, mandated by the State to give a second life to the mattresses that individuals wish to get rid of.

Thanks to an ultra-efficient in-house process, “a mattress which, at the start, does not have a very good head because it has a small stain or is a little torn, at the end of our process, it is very clean, very beautiful, very new ”, continues the entrepreneur.

In the Ecomatelas workshops, the mattress is first stripped.

The cover is not kept, it will be recycled.

The company only keeps the inside of the mattress: foam, latex or shape memory.

"A machine will then cut the material, in order to remove all the parts damaged or sagged by time," notes Jérémie Adjedj.

It's a bit like a fruit: it can happen that it is damaged on the surface, but underneath, there is still a super edible part.

The same goes for a mattress.

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"We are three to four times cheaper on average"

Then comes the most important step: thermal disinfection. Placed in a "large oven", the mattress is treated with forced heat. “It kills bacteria, mites or bedbugs. 105 ° C is reached. And from 65 ° C, nothing can resist ", assures the entrepreneur, whose process obeys standards" higher than hospital standards ". The mattress is then reconditioned, according to different ranges, with a brand new cover. Then sold, at prices well below the market. “We are three to four times cheaper on average,” notes the business manager.

It is still necessary to succeed in convincing users.

“This is obviously a big challenge for us,” notes Jérémie Adjedj, who highlights his process, which is certified, and the feedback from delighted customers.

“We all slept in a hotel.

In a hotel, you sleep on a mattress where hundreds of people have slept.

And we don't ask the question.

However, the mattress has not gone through all the stages that it is subjected to.

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