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What do senior executives in the polyurethane industry think will be the key challenges facing their businesses in 2020? We asked them at the recent CPI Meeting in Florida
K 2019 was held in Dusseldorf, Germany for eight days in October. We take a look at some of the polyurethane industry product and machinery highlights that were exhibited at the event The K show held in Dusseldorf, Germany once every three years is a fixed point in the life of the European polymer industry
FoamPartner has developed a new range of low-emission flexible polyurethane foams for automotive interiors. Heribert Perler and Henri Mispreuve explain what the foams can do to meet tighter regulations.
BASF has three innovation centres in Asia, located in India, China and Japan. Simon Robinson visited the Shanghai centre to discover what the company’s PU customers are demanding.
Earlier this year, Albrecht Baumer launched Sophie, a modular production control and data management system for polyurethane slabstock processing. The system offers much more, though – and could be a jumping off point for companies wanting to raise quality, and improve efficiency as well as understanding their processes.
The cold chain is growing longer and more complicated, while domestic refrigerators are getting bigger, and blowing agent technology in China is changing, too. Simon Robinson and Jane Ho take a closer look at the fast-developing Chinese cold chain market.
Solid polyurethane tyres helped one team’s vehicle go a long way on very little fuel in this year’s Shell Eco-marathon Americas. Sarah Houlton reports