Polyurethane INDUSTRY
RIGID PU FOAM
​Rigid polyurethane foam is used widely wherever high‑performance insulation is essential. The key to polyurethane foam’s exceptional insulating power: a precisely engineered cellular structure that minimizes heat transfer. We offer polyurethane additive technologies that play an important role in shaping this structure, giving our customers better control over thermal conductivity, flow and dimensional stability to tailor performance to meet today’s demanding standards.
It is also the insulation of choice in household and commercial refrigerators and freezers, improving their energy efficiency. Rigid PU foam is found in spray foam systems, pipe insulation, and one-component foams, each delivering specific benefits for processing and thermal performance.
Insulation Panels
Appliance
OCF
Discontinuous Insulation Panels
Spray Foam
Pipe Insulation
FLEXIBLE SLABSTOCK PU FOAM
Optimizing Flexible Slabstock with our PU Foam Additives
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Flexible slabstock polyurethane foam is essential in bedding, furniture and comfort products, as well as certain technical applications. Achieving the right cell structure, emission and processing stability depends on the right combination of additives. Our additives help customers develop solutions that deliver consistent foam quality for flexible slabstock foams while keeping VOC emissions as low as possible.
Our broad product portfolio, offer an additive toolbox for flexible slabstock foam formulations, including stabilizers, catalysts and performance additives for all major foam types.
Polyether
High Resilience Slabstock
Flame Retardant Foams
Polyester
Viscoelastic
AUTOMOTIVE PU FOAMS
Automotive interiors face rising expectations for performance, comfort, durability and emission reduction. Manufacturers must balance processing efficiency with low VOC and FOG emissions and improved in‑cabin air quality, while meeting increasingly stringent regional standards.
We support this transformation with a comprehensive portfolio of catalysts, performance additives, silicone surfactants, and release agents engineered to optimize molded polyurethane foam components used throughout the vehicle interior.
Automotive Seating
NVH
Dashboards, Steering Wheels & Headliner
Moulded Furniture
MICROCELLULAR FOAMS
Microcellular polyurethane foams are the material of choice for a wide range of applications including footwear, sports material, and integral skin products that demand an essential balance of durability, comfort and excellent surface finish.
Achieving these properties depends on specialized additives that control cell structure, support mechanical integrity and ensure smooth, defect-free, high-quality polyurethane surfaces.
We offer a broad portfolio of catalysts, surfactants, performance additives, and release agents for microcellular polyurethane foams used in footwear, integral skin applications, and other molded parts. Achieving the right balance of comfort, durability and surface quality depends on additives that precisely control cell structure, foam density and surface formation.
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Footwear
Integral Skin & Microcellular Foams
POLYURETHANE CASE
Polyurethane and polyurea are the materials of choice to meet the wide-ranging demands from the extensive list of CASE applications. Preferred for their excellent toughness and inherent flexibility - even at low temperatures - polyurethanes offer smooth durable finishes and superior protection against abrasion, chemicals and other environmental influences. Also suitable for a broad spectrum of substrates, polyurethanes provide performance advantages in structural adhesives, especially when bonding flexible materials. As global awareness of resource efficiency and sustainability intensifies, the capabilities of (reinforced) polyurethanes help to push the boundaries of more lightweight and durable solutions. With a unique portfolio of additives and a deep understanding of polyurethane chemistry developed over many decades, we have the experience and expertise to help you optimize your formulations and meet the challenges of today, and those of tomorrow.
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Our POLYCAT®, DABCO®, and KOSMOS® amine and metal catalysts help you tailor reaction profiles to meet your individual needs by controlling pot life, supporting the right hardness build-up and green strength, and shortening return-to-service times. For delayed-action or snap-cure requirements, we have specifically developed a range of thermo-activated high-performance catalysts. For emission-critical applications such as automotive interiors, our innovative reactive amine catalysts are the additives of choice. Dedicated to promote sustainability, our solutions provide formulators with many alternatives to mercury and other hazardous substances.
Evonik’s ORTEGOL® and DABCO® performance additives substantially increase process efficiency and improve properties of the final product. Additionally, they help to enhance miscibility, promote electrical conductivity and increase abrasion resistance, or can help support adhesion properties.
In the formulation of high-performance polyurea and polyurea-hybrid systems, our VERSALINK® diamine curatives and chain extenders offer superior physical properties and help to significantly extended pot life times.
To learn more about which products might best suit your CASE formulations, please contact your local sales representative, who will be pleased to help.
ARTIFICIAL LEATHER & FROTH FOAM
We want our customers and in turn, their end users, to feel the difference that our additive technologies can make to their artificial leather and froth foam formulations.
Artificial Leather
Froth Foam
