Eleven papers on sustainable polyurethane production at UTECH Europe

15/01/2015
Sustainability and the increased use of renewable and recycled resources in the manufacture of polyurethanes will be the focus of the opening technical session of the UTECH Europe 2015 conference, taking place April 14-16 in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

During the session, speakers will present 11 different papers on renewable resources, looking at different approaches to increasing sustainability in the manufacture and use of polyurethanes, including new global developments in the production of raw materials.

Speakers will include Kai Klockemann of Performance Chemicals GmbH, who will ask if there is a limit to the renewable or recycled products that manufacturers can incorporate into a polymer, and Invista’s Richard Beatty, who will give a paper looking at aliphatic polyester polyols with recycled content for high-resistance foams.

Two speakers, Dr Christoph Gürtler of Bayer MaterialScience and Simon Waddington of Novomer Inc will examine recent and future advances in CO2-based polyols, while Richard Janssen of Reverdia will deliver a paper on renewable polyester polyols and polyurethanes based on biosuccinium.