It is currently producing polyurethane products. The Tupelo facility was taken over in December and employs 110. The acquisitions mark continued expansion for Flexible Foam, which took over a ...

Narine and Xiaohua Kong report on the properties of their vegetable-based PUR sheets. PURs are a versatile group of plastics, widely used in liquid coatings and paints, adhesives, flexible foam in ...

It has formed fibers for textiles and, as a hard plastic ... reinforced flexible foam products from thermoplastic, primarily polyethylene.) The products are manufactured by inserting, or “tufting,” ...

The bio-based foam was as strong and flexible as typical polyurethane foam ... Petroleum-based plastic materials are an increasing waste problem. They take centuries to break down, but they ...

Polyurethane foam is created by mixing chemicals derived from crude oil with specific blowing agents to produce a flexible ...

However, as it is not as rigid as solid polyurethane sheets, it can be bent or molded more easily. Noise levels are also reduced by semi-flexible foam insulation which absorbs sound waves better ...

Researchers developed flexible, bio-based polyurethane foam using lignin extracted from pine ... for the development of bio-based value-added products.” Petroleum-based plastic materials are an ...

General Plastics supplies a broad range of pioneering rigid and flexible polyurethane foam solutions, as well as offering complete in-house production services for converting foam and other ...

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP have developed a foil that changes into polyurethane foam (PU foam) when heated—entirely without health risks.