フランスベッドは10月30日、同社の「ライフトリートメントマットレス」を全て除菌仕様にして発売した。同シリーズは２００７年に発売された人気シリーズ。今回、全てのサイズとグレードに除菌機能糸「ＡＧｌｉｚａ（アグリーザ）」（商標登録済み）を採用した。昨年、アグリーザを初めて採用して発売したマットレス「ＣｕｌｉｅｓｓＡｇ（キュリエス・エージー）」（商標登録済み）が好評を博していることから、同社の中核商品に採用を広げた。

　アグリーザは、繊維に含まれる銀イオンにより、スプレーなどを使わずに寝具自らが生地を除菌するという画期的な技術を東洋紡が開発。銀イオンのプラス電子が、微生物（細菌）の細胞膜外側のマイナス電子と作用することで、細胞膜を破壊することができる。マットレスの除菌をしたいが手入れが負担という消費者の声を受けてフランスベッドがマットレス生地に織り込み採用した。
　アグリーザの火付け役となったキュリエ ス・エージーは、今年４月時点で販売数１万５０００枚を突破、年間販売額も１４０％で推移するヒット商品となっている。
　除菌の意味は「菌を減らすこと」。抗菌防臭は「菌の増殖を抑制」し、制菌は「菌の増殖を防ぐこと」。アグリーザは菌を減らす効果が実証されており「抗菌」性能が高い機能を「除菌」と定義している。
　品質評価機関による抗菌性試験によると、アグリーザを使ったマット生地は、２万５千個の生菌数が18時間後に20個となり、細菌の減少率が99・９％になる結果を得ている。
　今回のライフトリートメントマットレスは、同社が独自に開発した、通気性に優れた高密度連続スプリングを採用、ハードとミディアムソフトの２つの硬さから選べる。高密度連続スプリングは、個々のスプリングを布で包むなどの加工を施していないため通気性に優れ、高温多湿の日本の気候に適した構造。１本の硬鋼線で編み上げられ、体圧を面全体で受け止めるため、部分的な落ち込みを軽減し、耐久性も向上するという。
　ベッドを２台並べて使う場合、マットレス面の高さをそろえるために厚みを重視して、機能面や好みの硬さを選べないことがあったが、同製品はマットレスの厚さが均一であるため、６つのグレードの中から寝心地重視で選べる。
　その中には、好みに合わせて、マットレスの端に体重をかけても沈みこまない「プロ・ウォール」（商標登録済み）加工や、通気性、体圧分散性、弾力性に優れる３次元スプリング構造体「ブレスエアーエクストラ」（商標登録済み）、「ブレスエアーエクストラシルキー」（商標登録済み）仕様を２つの硬さで選択できるようになっている。


AGliza, Popular String Which Eliminates Bacteria
Used for All Products of Life Treatment
Reflected the Popularity by Consumers, the Use of AGliza Increasing
FRANCE BED CO.,LTD.

From 30th of October, all products of Life Treatment Mattress series, which is one of the brands of FRANCE BED, became bacteria eliminated processing. This series is a popular brand of the company, which has been on sale since 2007. This time, the company decided to use AGliza, a string with a bacteria eliminated specification, for all sizes and grades of the series. Last year, the company chose the string for the first time as the material of CuliessAg, one of the goods of the company, and it got a good response, so the company picked up the string for its main products.

AGliza is a string with an epoch-making technology, whose fiber contains silver ion, so the mattress made from the string naturally eliminates bacteria on the fabric. A positive charge of silver ion works together with a minus charge of the surface of a cell membrane and can break the membrane of the sell . This string was created with Toyobo Co.,Ltd. , due to the opinions of consumers that they want to eliminate bacteria on the mattress but it is very difficult by their own hands.

The definition of “bacteria elimination” is “to clear bacteria”. The word “bactericidal” is contained to the category of bacteria elimination, but it is not permitted to use the term “bactericidal” for goods except medicine and quasi-drugs. Therefore, the word bacteria elimination is used for common commodity instead of the medical term. The word “antibacterial” is also used frequently, but this term means “to restrain increasing of bacteria” by making the circumstance in which it is not easy for bacteria to live. In other words, “antibacterial” does not has the specification of killing or eliminating bacteria, the effect that can be expected for the goods of “bacteria elimination” and “bactericidal”.

According to the antibacterial property testing by BOKEN Quality Evaluation Institute , on the fabric for mattress which was woven by AGliza, living 25,000 bacteria became 20 after 18 hours had passed. The decreasing ratio was 99.9%, the result showed.

As for the new “Life treatment mattress ”, the company’s unique technology is used for its spring with an excellent air permeability, whose name is “Densely and continuous spring ”, and customers can choose 2 types of hardness, “Hard” and “Medium soft”. Densely and continuous spring is not added extra processing like a wrapping for each spring, so it is highly permeable by air and very suitable for Japan, in which the temperature is high and the air is humid. The spring is woven by one steel wire, so the mattress can catch the weight of its user by the entire surface, lessening the partial sinking, and durability of the mattress is also improved.

It is often pointed out that many users can not choose the mattress of their taste from the perspective of function or hardness, just because they have to buy the mattresses of same heights when they plan to use the 2 beds next to each other. However, as for this product, users do not have to take care of the heights, and can choose mattresses among 2 types of hardness and 6 types of grade, giving priority over the comfortability when sleep.

In addition, it is also possible for users to choose optional processing by their own preferences, for instance, PRO WALL processing by which the edges of the mattress do not sink even though the users put their weight over, BREATHAIR extra with a three-dimensional structure which has an excellent air permeability, bounciness, and dispersiveness of the user’s weight, and BREATHAIR extra silky .