Simon Robinson

Chrysler Group llc is using recycled polyols made by a groundbreaking process based on polyurethane foam scrap

Polyether polyols producer Shandong Bluestar Dongda Chemical Co. is investing RMB 6 billion ($900 million) in a major capacity expansion

Participants in the polyurethanes sector would agree that the business has gone through a “roller-coaster period” in the last few years

Bayer MaterialScience has developed “extremely lightweight” rigid PU foam for the cockpit of the Solar lmpulse aircraft

Norwegian slabstock machinery maker Laader Berg has a business approach that seems hard to beat: it invented the Maxfoam concept for making slabstock polyurethane foam

If polyurethanes are a business where megatrends are important, then the influence of the Chinese market on the sector could probably be considered a single megatrend in its own right.

Moulds coated by plasma may help to reduce or eliminate the need for release agents

Raw materials suppliers in the polyurethanes sector have been hard hit by the global economic downturn. At its lowest point, demand for their products slumped by up to 40 percent: it has now limped back to perhaps 15 or 20 percent below normal.

Despite the obvious difficulties of doing business over the last year, the German polyurethanes sector is in a positive mood

Syrian-based polyurethane company Baalbaki Chemical Industries is so convinced of continuing high growth in the Gulf States and urther afield in the Middle East and North Africa that it plans to set up a network of systems houses in the area.