Application Development & Product Research
Tomorrow’s world is based on today’s inventions – and these inventions make our lives easier, safer, and more environmentally friendly. Polyurethanes play a key role in this, which is why PUR Innovation focuses not only on further developing our raw materials but also on optimizing our customers’ polyurethane applications.
The challenge facing Application Development is to develop the best application solutions for our polyurethane systems by working in tandem with our customers. Not only that, we use state-of-the-art machinery to simulate the customer’s production line in detail. This allows us to see things from the user’s perspective and help them to optimize their processes with even more targeted support. In this way, we ensure a smooth transition from laboratory development of polyurethanes to industrial-scale production.
Besides offering decades of polyurethane expertise, we have always drawn on the benefits of multi-disciplinary cooperation. As a result, our chemists, engineers and service technicians cover an extremely broad range of scientific expertise. This often gives Bayer MaterialScience an edge over its competitors in terms of innovation. And PUR innovation ensures that our customers are also among the beneficiaries of this.
Optimally enhanced materials
Our Application Development is rounded off by Product Research. Its task has always been to continuously enhance our polyols, isocyanates and prepolymers in order to meet future market requirements and to integrate new functional additives into our polyurethane systems. Whether it be flexible foams for mattresses, rigid foams for household appliances or elastomers for cutting-edge automotive engineering – the focus of our research and development work at all times is on optimizing the properties of our polyurethane materials.
Product Research relies exclusively on the very latest scientific expertise – whether it’s a matter of analyzing structure and effect behavior, using advanced synthesis processes, or integrating efficient screening techniques. It has established partnerships with well-known universities and research institutes. Our customers benefit from this at a later stage in the form of optimally enhanced materials that are economical, competitive and value-creating.