Importance Of Thermal Comfort In Bedding

Special Guest Speakers: Angela Kondinska (Senior Project Manager) and Rogin Gilbert (Senior Engineer) from Emma Sleep. Thermal conductivity and thermal effusivity are central to how bedding materials feel and perform through the night, especially as body heat and moisture build within the bedding microclimate. In this webinar, Angela Kondinska and Rogin Gilbert discuss why overnight thermal comfort matters for sleep quality, and how mattress developers can use reliable thermal property data to make better material and layer selections. In this session, C-Therm and Emma Sleep will demonstrate how C-Therm's Modified Transient Plane Source (MTPS) is used for textiles, and why it is the best available method for measuring the thermal effusivity and conductivity of these materials to understand it "warm/cool touch" behaviour. C-therm's MTPS directly measures the thermal effusivity and conforms to the standard ASTM D7984. This method is widely used when teams need a fast, repeatable way to quantify textile coolness and compare constructions and material stacks with confidence. The session also covers why testing under varying conditions is critical for real-world performance, and how conductivity and effusivity data support faster material screening, formulation decisions, and confidence in final mattress designs and bedding microclimate engineering, with insights from Emma Sleep and the application expertise of $1 Keywords: thermal effusivity, thermal conductivity, cool touch textiles, cool touch bedding, textile coolness measurement, bedding microclimate, mattress temperature regulation, overnight thermal comfort, foam thermal properties, textile thermal testing, MTPS, Modified Transient Plane Source, C-Therm MTPS, ASTM D7984, thermal effusivity test method, heat transfer in textiles, mattress materials testing, sleep comfort materials, thermal property characterization