During a ceremony in Florida on Thursday, May 21, Charles A. Yost, inventor and founder of Leicester-based memory foam manufacturing company Dynamic Systems Inc., was inducted into the Polyurethane Foam Association’s Hall of Fame. One of Yost’s most notable accomplishments was the invention of Temper material — originally developed in 1969 under a NASA contract for airline seating purposes.
For the full transcript of the speech from Yost’s induction, including his upbringing and rise in the scientific engineering community, click here.
Here’s more information from Dynamic Systems:
Dynamic Systems was incorporated in 1967 and began by manufacturing Temper foam which was developed by Mr. Yost in 1969 as part of a NASA contract to engineer safer airline seating. The business started as a one-man operation out of a basement in a house on Chateau Place in Kenilworth. As the business grew, it subsequently moved to Madison County and continued to expand over the decades to become a 22,000 square-foot facility employing approx. 20 people from the surrounding community. It now produces improved next-generation foams, SunMate, Pudgee, and Liquid SunMate FIPS (Foam-in-Place Seating). Sales average about $2.7 million per year.
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