Global MDI production is running at about 90 percent of nameplate capacity, and looks likely to stay there for a while.

Perma-Pipe has been awarded a $6.7 million contract by Indian company JSIW Infrastructure to insulate a crude oil pipeline.

Dow has reached a deal with U.S. authorities that will eliminate large amounts of air pollution from four of its Gulf Coast petrochemical manufacturing facilities.

The world produced 704,000 metric tons of thermoplastic polyurethane in 2020, down about 6 percent because of the coronavirus, according to a new report.

Wheat straw has been identified as a potential source of polyols by a team at Spain's University of Cordoba. Working in collaboration with Chile's Advanced Polymers Research Centre, researchers managed to transform it into polyols for polyurethanes.

The inaugural UTechSoutheast Asia exhibition and conference will be held April 26-28, 2022 at the Saigon Exhibition & Convention Center.

Lanxess has developed a new Adiprene elastomer.

A team at Purdue University has used 3D printed TPU to show that a patterned sheet of domes can form an energy-storing skin. They claim it is strong enough to perform mechanical tasks, and could even store and process data like a mechanical computer.

Stanley Pauley, the longtime CEO of Carpenter Holdings Inc., died Nov. 20. He was 93.

Auto supplier Toyoda Gosei has developed a urethane microfoam film for pharmaceutical drug development, using material knowledge developed through use of urethane for steering wheels.

It could take three to six months for currently shuttered MDI capacity to find its way back into the market.

The United States Department of Energy has announced more than $27 million in funding for 12 projects in the advanced plastics recycling arena, including four with direct relevance to the polyurethanes field.

Since Huntsman completed the acquisition of spray polyurethane foam specialist Icynene-Lapolla in February 2020, the coronavirus has made the world a very different place. Yet despite the challenging landscape, the integration of the two businesses has progressed rapidly.

While China's August exports were down compared to last August, they were an improvement over the July numbers.

TPU products now can be processed virtually in BASF's Utrasim mold and product simulation tool.