Fossil fuel-based polyurethane foam has been a firm favourite in furniture manufacturing for over half a century. Jane Englefield investigates the material.

Consumer Foam Market is driven by strong demand for consumer foam products across bedding and furniture, automotive, packaging and construction indus. Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT.

Promotion: Swiss furniture brand Vitra has announced the development of a world-first easily recyclable polyurethane foam, developed in partnership with chemicals company BASF. Titled V-Foam, the ...

Slab foam is the most common type of polyurethane foam you'll find in furniture, and it gets its name from the mass-produced slabs from which it's cut to go under the fabric on your chair.

Mahama also described Styrofoam as one of the most harmful pollutants and stressed the urgent need for alternative materials. “We can’t be planting trees and cutting them down at the same time ...

Future Foam, maker of foam used in bedding, furniture, and other applications, has bought two facilities of Leggett & Platt, which had announced layoffs in High Point. congerdesign/Pixabay.

Luam Melake’s mother hated when her family would migrate to the living room as soon as a meal was over. People talked more in the dining room, she observed.