US Patent Issued to Carpenter Engineered Foams Belgium on Sept. 9 for "Method of recycling polyurethane materials" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,276, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Carpenter Engineered Foams Belgium BV (Machelen, Belgium).

"Method of recycling polyurethane materials" was invented by Thomas Vanbergen (Schulen, Belgium), Dirk De Vos (Holsbeek, Belgium), Laurens Claes (Mechelen, Belgium), Isabel Verlent (Wetteren, Belgium) and Joke De Geeter (Wetteren, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for alcoholising and hydrolysing polyurethane (PUR) materials made from at least one polyol compound and at least one toluene diisocyanate based compound; wherein the method comprises the following steps: contacting the polyurethane material with at least one al...