Wheat straw has been identified as a potential source of polyols by a team at Spain's University of Cordoba. Working in collaboration with Chile’s Advanced Polymers Research Centre, researchers ...

Building a Closed-Loop PU Supply Chain Working across the auto-recycling ecosystem, Dow and Gruppo Fiori aim to streamline collection and processing of polyurethane waste so it can re-enter the value ...

Polyurethane (PU) started as a solution to a 1930s shortage, but today it's a key material in industries from insulation to cushioning. Invented in 1937 by Otto Bayer and his team in Germany, PU was ...

General Plastics manufactures complete containers that are CNC-machined and built to the exact specifications of the customers. Customers that choose to manufacture their own liners for Type A and ...

Promotion: Swiss furniture brand Vitra has announced the development of a world-first easily recyclable polyurethane foam, developed in partnership with chemicals company BASF. Titled V-Foam, the ...

Rigid and flexible polyurethane foams from General Plastics are frequently employed to create production parts in a vast range of industries, from automotive, aerospace and medical markets to ...

As the world sleeps, a quiet environmental crisis is unfolding. Over 20 million mattresses are discarded annually in the United States alone, occupying more than 800 million cubic feet in landfills.

The team now plans to use the PU foams in plant nurseries to help with plant growth. "Instead of watering the plant, and with the aim of dealing with drought problems and preventing overwatering, we ...