FREEFOAM

Novel PUR foaming manufacturing process with reduced toxic isocyanate content

Coordinatore	ASOCIACION EMPRESARIAL DE INVESTIGACION CENTRO TECNOLOGICO DEL MUEBLEY LA MADERA DE LA REGION DE MURCIA    more  Organization address address: Calle perales s/n city: Yecla postcode: 30510 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Francisco José Cognome: Melero Muñoz Email: send email Telefono: 34968752040 Fax: 34968751331
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Spain [ES]
Totale costo	2˙113˙802 €
EC contributo	1˙629˙000 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2012
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME-AG
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-05-01   -   2016-04-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	ASOCIACION EMPRESARIAL DE INVESTIGACION CENTRO TECNOLOGICO DEL MUEBLEY LA MADERA DE LA REGION DE MURCIA  Organization address address: Calle perales s/n city: Yecla postcode: 30510 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Francisco José Cognome: Melero Muñoz Email: send email Telefono: 34968752040 Fax: 34968751331	ES (Yecla)	coordinator	60˙680.00
2	BFM LTD  Organization address address: HARCOURT STREET 30 city: LONDON postcode: W1H 4AA contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Jackie Cognome: Bazeley Email: send email Telefono: 4401490000000 Fax: 44149474270	UK (LONDON)	participant	353˙454.20
3	ZAVOD LESARSKI GROZD  Organization address address: Dimiceva 13 city: Ljubljana postcode: 1504 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Bernard Cognome: Likar Email: send email Telefono: +386 1 5898 284 Fax: 38615898100	SI (Ljubljana)	participant	331˙209.70
4	PLAMA-PUR PROIZVODNJA IN PREDELAVAPLASTICNIH MAS DD PODGRAD  Organization address address: PODGRAD 17 city: PODGRAD postcode: 6244 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Bojan Cognome: Gorjanc Email: send email Telefono: +386 5 7149 240 Fax: 38657149259	SI (PODGRAD)	participant	295˙185.10
5	TAGRA BIOTECHNOLOGIES LTD  Organization address address: HAMLACHA STREET 8 city: NETANYA postcode: 42293 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Danny Cognome: Goldstein Email: send email Telefono: 972523000000 Fax: 97246903471	IL (NETANYA)	participant	289˙111.50
6	COSMETIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION  Organization address address: PLACE DE LA CATHEDRALE 1 city: CHARTRES postcode: 28000 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Christophe Cognome: Masson Email: send email Telefono: +33 02 37 211 211	FR (CHARTRES)	participant	266˙551.50
7	TECNOLOGIAS AVANZADAS INSPIRALIA SL  Organization address address: CALLE MIGUEL VILLANUEVA 2 6 PISO PUERTA 3 city: LOGRONO postcode: 26001 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Alfredo Cognome: Sanchez Email: send email Telefono: +34 91 417 0457 Fax: 34915563415	ES (LOGRONO)	participant	13˙838.00
8	ZVAZ CHEMICKEHO A FARMACEUTICKEHO PRIEMYSLU SLOVENSKEJ REPUBLIKY  Organization address address: HATTALOVA 12 city: BRATISLAVA postcode: 83103 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Silvia Cognome: Surová Email: send email Telefono: +421 2 48209005	SK (BRATISLAVA)	participant	9˙770.00
9	POLYMEREXPERT SA  Organization address address: ALLEE DU DOYEN GEORGES BRUS 1 city: PESSAC postcode: 33600 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Brigitte Cognome: Galet Email: send email Telefono: 33556040200 Fax: 33556460438	FR (PESSAC)	participant	9˙200.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Polyurethane (PUR) is one of the most versatile materials ever created, present in the cars, under the carpets, as packaging material, cushioning material in almost all furniture and bedding. The European PUR foam sector has 50.000 companies that employ over 1.6 million people. Polyurethane foam technology consists on foam building by reacting two chemicals, isocyanate and polyol, in the presence of other additives such as blowing agents, catalysts, and fire retardants. Manufacture of PUR foam requires certain amount of free isocyanate in order to fully react the polyurethane mixture. Isocyanate component represents a potential risk to workers during manufacture of the PUR foams. Isocyanate is included in the 2003 European schedule of occupational diseases, and it has been established that ten to twenty percent of asthma cases recorded in EU are due to isocyanates. The aim of FREEFOAM is to reduce health risk of workers during foam manufacturing by lowering the concentration of free isocyanate and reducing the emission of the same to the atmosphere. We propose a unique, homogeneous reactive mixture for PUR foaming purposes where reactants are physically separated by using functionalised microcapsules of isocyanate conveniently dispersed on polyol mixture component. The reactive system will allow increasing the mixture reactivity due to the performed compatibility and hence, homogeneity between isocyanate and polyol components while decreasing the exposure of workers to harmful emissions by lowering the residual monomer content on the foam, avoiding the emissions and migration of such components from foams. In addition, the used solution will allow decreasing the generated waste due to bad cell homogeneity and product density as consequence of bad mixing process.'