Dow Launches Low Volatile Silicone Surfactants for Lightweight Flexible Foams

Highlighted Products Include:

  • VORASURF™ FF 5955 Additive: a polyurethane surfactant innovation enabling higher air flow, better aeration, EO-rich, viscoelastic or hypersoft foams for more lightweight, high-comfort bedding and furniture applications. VORASURF™ FF 5955 Additive also offers good performance with auxiliary blowing agents, offering new choices of surfactants to help formulators transition towards low ozone depleting potential (ODP) and low global warming potential (GWP) options, including carbon dioxide.
  • VORASURF™ DC 5188 Additive: a new surfactant compatible with very low to low density (under 15 kg/ m³) continuous slabstock and box foam for furniture applications, particularly suitable for cost-driven markets
  • VORASURF™ FF 5959 Additive: a next-generation solution particularly suitable as a co-surfactant to decrease the dosage of cell opener in a formulation, offering finer control over the cell size and foam recovery and pneumaticity properties in viscoelastic foams

Not only is the development of lightweight foams critical to meeting current market needs, but an added benefit of these foams relates to sustainability. Weight reduction indeed allows for reduced carbon emissions associated with transport and delivery to the consumer, improved resource efficiency, and waste reduction. Today’s innovations go the extra mile, helping customers transition to auxiliary blowing agents, address fire safety requirements, and minimize volatile organic compounds emissions,” said Justin Weare, global marketing manager for polyurethane additives at Dow.

In addition to resource efficiency, transportation cost, and carbon emissions benefits, lower density, high comfort foams also bring tangible productivity benefits to customers by increasing production yield and reducing costs.

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