Valued for comfort, safety and fuel-efficiency, polyurethane foam is an essential part of automotive interiors. A typical car contains about 28 kg of PU, 10-15 kg of which is in seats – an amount of ...

Midland, MI – Dow, in partnership with Gruppo Fiori, announced the latest advancements in a jointly-developed, novel process that enables recovery of polyurethane waste from end-of-life vehicles ...

Dow and Gruppo Fiori are closing the loop on automotive polyurethanes - turning end-of-life foam waste into feedstocks for new foams through chemical recycling. Recovered polyurethane waste can be ...

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 ...

Waterborne polyurethane dispersions (PUDs) have garnered increasing interest in recent years due to the growing demand for environmentally friendly materials. The unique phase-separated morphologies ...

Collaboration delivers novel process to recover polyurethane foam from end-of-life vehicles, driving critical progress toward closed-loop circularity for the automotive industry MIDLAND, Mich., Sept.

After a rigorous three-year testing period, FLS used Electra Mining 2024 to officially launch its NexGen polyurethane, a heavy-duty and hard-wearing screen panel for large particle applications.

The birth control or contraceptive sponge is a polyurethane disc soaked in spermicide. It’s designed to be inserted deep into the vaginal canal ahead of penis-in-vagina sex to prevent pregnancy. The ...

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 ...