Increasingly, the automotive industry is requiring demonstration that polymers in automotive applications are recyclable.
The techniques for the recovery and recycling of polyurethane foam from MDI Pour-in-Place automotive seating have been demonstrated. This seating technology is uniquely suited to the recovery of foams for physical and chemical recycling.
The pulverization of flexible foam and its physical recycling back into automotive seating is described with estimations of the costs involved and performance of the resulting product. Recent work on the chemical recycling of MDI automotive seating is outlined.
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