Wolf Pack Inc

When you are in the process of shopping around for a latex mattress, you will hear the names Dunlop and Talalay. A lot of people are not clear on the difference between them. It’s usually a misconception that both are the same kind of latex. While some people mistake them for brand names. Others even think they are names of two different kinds of rubber trees. Well, they are neither of those.

Dunlop and Talalay refer to the names of two different processes that convert the liquid latex into solid form. It is just a separate process. But both still uses the same liquid latex.

The Dunlop latex process involves the pouring of the liquid latex into a mould. The mould is on a vulcanizing machine that looks a lot like a giant waffle press. Once they close that machine, it will use heat from steam to cook and solidify the latex. They use steam so that the material does not get burnt. The vulcanizing machine has thousands of pins in press. It uses these pins to evenly distribute the heat. The process has no way of controlling where the natural sediments of the material will settle or accumulate.

The Talalay process still uses liquid latex as the base material. The liquid latex is poured into an air tight mold that has been vacuumed of air. After that, the mold will be flash-frozen to stabilize the cell structure. Then carbon dioxide is introduced into the material resulting to the material gelling. At this point the machine incrementally increases the temperature to vulcanize the material.

As you can see, the Talalay process is a little bit more complicated. This makes Talalay latex more expensive than Dunlop latex. But the added steps allow Talalay latex to have a more consistent cell structure all throughout the mattress. This results to Talalay latex being plusher than Dunlop latex.