Basf Aktiengesellschaft

Ernst Schoen

Wolfgang Jarre

Walter Decker

Gerhard Heinz

Matthias Marx

Otto Volkert

Herbert Stutz

Dietmar Nissen

Peter Weyland

Dieter Stein

Heinrich Horacek

Georg Falkenstein

Franz Haaf

Herbert Grabhoefer

Erhardt Reich

The invention concerns a process for the preparation of flexible polyurethane foams having good hydrolytic stability, improved damping, with equal or higher levels of other physical properties and with a high absorption capacity. The foams are prepared by reacting organic polyisocyanates and mixtures of

Process for the preparation of flexible polyurethane foams employing

Stable melamine-polyoxyalkylene polyether polyol dispersions are prepared by the in situ reduction of melamine particles wherein 90 percent of the melamine particles have a particle size of less than 10 microns. Stabilizers for the melamine-polyol dispersion are selected from the group consisting of

Stable melamine polyol dispersions, a process for their manufacture and

To prepare light-stable polyurethane integral skin foams, especially soft integral foams, aliphatic and/or cycloaliphatic polyisocyanates, both categories preferably containing urethane groups and/or biuret groups, are reacted with polyols in the presence of blowing agents and of a synergistic catalyst combination comprising an alkali metal hydroxide, alkali metal alcoholate, alkali metal phenolate, alkali metal salt of a weak acid and/or hexahydrotriazine derivative and an organic tin, zinc and/or iron(II) compound, in the presence or absence of assistants and adjuvants. The preferred catalyst combination is tri-(dimethylaminopropyl)-s-hexahydrotriazine and dibutyl-tin dilaurate.

Manufacture of light-stable polyurethane integral foams

This invention concerns a process for the manufacture of flexible polyurethane foams from urethane-modified aromatic polyisocyanates having an NCO content of 15 to 30 percent by weight and a viscosity of 100 to 2000 centipoises at 20.degree. C., which are obtained by reaction of a mixture of diphenylmethane diisocyanates and polyphenylene polymethylene polyisocyanates containing 55 to 85 percent by weight of diphenylmethane diisocyanate based on the total weight of the polyisocyanate mixture and a hydroxyl compound with 2 to 4 Zerewitinoff active hydrogen atoms and a molecular weight of 60 to 1500, in an equivalency ratio of NCO groups to active hydrogen atoms of the hydroxyl compound of 2:1 to 60:1, polyols, catalysts, blowing agents, and optionally, chain extenders, auxiliaries, and additives.

Manufacture of flexible foams

Polyurethane compositions -- which may or may not be foamed -- having improved mechanical properties are manufactured from organic polyisocyanates, polyhydroxy compounds and one or more at least partially crosslinked, particulate polymers of particle size from 500 to 5,000 A, of which polymer from 1 to 40% by weight are dispersed in the polyhydroxy compound.

Manufacture of polyurethane compositions

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