Hyperlast open day shows PU potential

摘要

Dow Hyperlast's Birch Vale facility-part of Dow's Formulated Systems segment-is a UK systems house located in the Peak District. A ￡1.5m investment in the facilities in 2012 built a new R&D centre dedicated to engineering elastomers and PU technology innovation. The company offers on-site trialling and testing facilities and supplies customised plant machinery. The polyurethane knowledge base at Hyperlast was cultivated through the development and production of a catalogue of products over several decades. Solid engineering elastomer development began at Hyperlast in the 1970s and was fully integrated into Dow soon afterwards. Hyperlast polyurethane was developed as a replacement for plastic-based materials in applications like filter housings. One of its first uses under Dow leadership was as insulation for Shell UK's subsea pipelines in the early 1980s.