Issue 3/2022 - Waste polyurethane successfully converted into polyol feedstock

MCNS, a polyurethane joint venture between South Korean and Japanese chemical companies, will work with a Korean furniture company to commercialize an environmentally friendly technology that converts waste polyurethane into polyols, a liquid-phase synthesis that uses polyvalent alcohols to reach boiling points
at high temperatures.

MCNS was established by SKC and Mitsui Chemicals through the spin-off of their respective polyurethane businesses, and it will commercialize
its recycled polyol technology by recycling waste polyurethane from furniture manufacturing and returning it to raw materials.
After three years of research, MCNS developed its regenerative polyol technology
.
MCNS said its technology showed ease of handling and had excellent physical properties, unlike
similar technologies developed in Europe.

Currently, the technology has obtained .
NET certification from Korea, a system
that promotes utilization by guaranteeing excellence in innovative new technologies.