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Recticel Foam Uses Cargill Biopolyol

March 12, 2007 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 85, Issue 11

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Credit: Cargill
Credit: Cargill

Europe's largest flexible foam manufacturer, Recticel, has launched a line of foams that contain Cargill's soybean-oil-based polyols rather than traditional polyols, which are made by reacting propylene oxide with an alcohol. Cargill estimates that replacing 1 million lb of traditional polyols with its BiOH brand polyols will save 2,200 barrels of crude oil.

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