Spice it up!
While you’re being bold and having fun in the kitchen, things can get a little messy.
Luckily, many kitchen cabinets and surfaces are coated with a polyurethane finish that helps them look bright, shiny and new – even after the boldest of cooking.
Polyurethane also helps keep leftovers fresh. Polyurethane foam is used to insulate many refrigerators – help to keep our spicy food cool and fresh.
Category: Appliances, Furniture, Home Builders
That’s right – a whole day devoted to the book worm in us all. Get comfortable, curl up under a blanket and grab your favorite page-turner.
We don’t judge a book by its cover, but do know that it is important. The story would simply fall apart without the cover! Whether it’s one of the new bestsellers or the college textbooks we studied during all-nighters, polyurethane is used to help many books stay bound – even after much wear and tear.
Flexible and durable polyurethane adhesives are typically used in bookbinding to create the spine for books. Polyurethane works...
Category: Innovation Bonds
It’s that time of year again: the time to be someone—or something– you’re not. When you finally decide on who or what you’d like to be this year on October 31st – polyurethane will be there to help in your transformation.
If you’re planning to be the talk of the neighborhood trick-or-treat route with a decked out candy stop, you should know that most of your props and decorations are made with polyurethane. The material can protect your plastic pumpkins and life-sized witches so they last through the toils and troubles of Halloweens for years to come. For a...
Category: Innovation Bonds
It’s that time of year again! Proud alumni are returning to their old stomping grounds for homecoming celebrations. Cars and trucks park on the outskirts of football stadiums across the nation as former and current students tailgate with burgers on the grill, a stocked cooler, and a friendly game of corn hole.
Did you know that polyurethane is there to help you celebrate?
Some trucks have a polyurethane spray coating applied to the bed of the truck – helping protect the surface from wear and tear.
Polyurethane can also be found in coolers. Polyurethane insulating foam is a versatile...
Category: Innovation Bonds
Whether we listen for today’s hit music, the most up-to-date news coverage or to make our commutes more bearable, many of us spend time each day tuning into our favorite radio stations.
Mighty House Radio listeners recently heard about the many benefits of polyurethane and spray polyurethane foam.
Lee Salamone, senior director of the Center for the Polyurethanes Industry, and Justin Koscher, director of the Spray Foam Coalition, spoke with the Mighty House Radio hosts about how polyurethane is present in many of the products that make our homes comfortable and stylish, including furniture, mattresses, appliances, carpet underlay and...
Category: Home Builders
Great news for all you clean freaks! A team from Queen’s University may have developed a way to make surfaces smudge-free. No more grubby fingerprints on your cellphone! This is all possible with the help of polyurethane, of course!
By using a polyurethane based coating, the Queen’s University team may have found a way to keep the surfaces of electronics clean and clear. The innovation also has the ability to repel both water and oil soluble contaminants such as ink, artificial fingerprints, and paint. The requirements for coatings to be considered “anti-smudge” are actually very rigorous: it cannot adversely...
Category: Appliances, Innovation Bonds
Earlier this month, more than 1,000 polyurethane professionals met in Orlando for the 58th annual Polyurethanes Technical Conference at the Gaylord Palms Hotel. The Conference, which is the longest-running polyurethanes conference in North America, featured 75 technical presentations, 38 poster presentations, industry table top exhibits, a Professional Development Program and premier networking events.
Pre-Conference activities started on Sunday, Oct. 4, with Professional Development Program courses and an Environment, Health and Safety workshop, which was available to all registered conference attendees.
On Monday, keynote speaker André Borschberg, one of the pilots and co-developer of the Solar Impulse solar-powered aircraft,...
Category: 2015 Polyurethane Technical Conference
Last week, more than 1,000 polyurethane professionals met in Orlando for the 58th annual Polyurethanes Technical Conference at the Gaylord Palms Hotel. The conference, which is the longest-running polyurethanes conference in North America, featured 75 technical presentations, 38 poster presentations, industry table top exhibits, a professional development program and the polyurethane industry’s premier networking events. Read more and see video of CPI and conference leaders – as well as some of the conference participants – at the ICIS interactive publication.
Category: 2015 Polyurethane Technical Conference
Spray polyurethane foam can have BIG benefits for even the smallest of houses.
Spray polyurethane foam insulation can be used to help fill gaps and stop air leaks in many areas of a home or building – whether they are big or small. In fact, the construction and use of tiny houses is sweeping the country. Plastics Makes It Possible takes you step-by-step through the overall construction and design of the exterior and interior for one of these mobile and tiny houses.
Along with vinyl plastic sliding and trim, solar power plastic roof shingles, and plastic interior...
Category: 2015 Polyurethane Technical Conference, Home Builders
Today is the day you have a reason to stand in your closet for too long, staring in admiration at the fabulous collection of handbags.
Pay respect to the clutches, the carry-ons, the satchels and totes that have so brilliantly held your things while matching your shoes. You’ve been through a lot – and your handbags have always been by your side. How does the beauty withstand the battles of everyday life? You guessed it – polyurethane. The incredible polymer gives many handbags the durability needed to withstand any wear or weather, while holding every item you may want...
Category: Apparel