Renewable resources to feature prominently at polyurethane conference

24/05/2018
The use of renewable resources in manufacturing polyurethanes will be a key focus at the 2018 UTECH Europe conference in Maastricht (May 29-31).

Organisers have said that the conference programme includes 15 papers devoted to this subject.

There will be a keynote address from Patrick Thomas, the outgoing chief executive of Covestro, plus a strategic overview of the polyurethanes market from Robert Outram, assistant director at global chemical industry consultancy IAL.

Other speakers at the UTECH Europe conference include Marc Fricke and Frank Fechner of BASF Polyurethanes, Alberto Mercati and Paul Cookson of Dow Polyurethanes, Martin Glos of Evonik, Kristof Dedecker and Geert Dries of Huntsman, and Jon Penrice of Dow Chemical.