Renewable-based Polyurethane Prepolymers: alternative to petroleum-derived raw materials to formulate adhesives & sealants

Markets: One and two- components urethane adhesives and sealants for Wood, Transportation, Furniture, B&C Polymer: Renewable-based Polyurethane Prepolymers based on Natural Oil Polyols (NOP) > Key Performances: Environmentally friendly Water Resistance Chemical Resistance Lower Viscosity Low odor Tailor-made products to better meet your needs

As in many other industries, sustainability has become more and more important to adhesives and sealants formulators. They are facing the challenge of developing environmentally sound products, while maintaining the highest level of performance of their products.

How to formulate an efficient broad range of eco-friendly polyurethane adhesives and sealants?

Natural Oil Polyol (NOP)-based Polyurethane Prepolymers

Thanks to a breakthrough technology, soybean oil-based polyols, Dow Polyurethane developed innovative renewable PU prepolymers grades to specifically address this challenge. Bio-based prepolymers can be designed with a variety of specifications to achieve the desired level of performance

You can now formulate eco-friendly polyurethane adhesives and sealants from natural oil-sources: NOP-Prepolymers can be customized to meet high formulation and mechanical requirements and be suitable to a broad range of adhesives and sealants applications like transportation, packaging, construction and furniture:

Not only you will make the difference with environmentally sound products, but your adhesives and sealants from natural oil-based prepolymers will exhibit comparable (and sometimes higher) level of performance as conventional prepolymers. Moreover, this breakthrough technology eliminates odor usually associated with soy bean chemistry.

Below is presented an example of wood bonding application: The NOP-based system demonstrated improved bond strength initially, following thermal aging, and wetting.