BASF will provide polyurethane foam system to modern cars for producing car seats in Korea.

Posted 2025-06-17 00:00:00 +0000 UTC

The car factory in Ulsan will exclusively use BASF Elastoflex soft polyurethane (PU) foam system to produce car seats. High resilience PU foam is a low volatile organic compound (VOC) solution, mainly used for automotive interior, such as seats and headrest. Compared with traditional foam, Elastoflex has higher comfort, higher elasticity and better load-bearing performance. In order to meet the most stringent emission control regulations, BASF has optimized its polyol production process, which is used to produce Elastoflex PU foam for high comfort seat applications. The optimized production process can be converted into low VOC special polyols with cost-effectiveness. In tests conducted by SGS (Korea), the world's leading testing agency, the new solution is certified to reduce acetaldehyde and formaldehyde emissions by at least 30%, improving indoor air quality and the health of car drivers. Due to the excellent fluidity of the newly developed Pu product portfolio, the field test also proved that the productivity of the production line increased while the defect rate decreased. "Reducing VOC emissions and improving driving comfort are the main goals of automotive OEMs. We are committed to improving our product solution elastoflex to meet rapidly changing market trends and demands while maintaining excellent mechanical performance, providing excellent performance and flexible design. " "To meet the growth of low VOC solutions in various fields, BASF has also expanded the polyol capacity of Weishan by 13000 tons," said postlethwaite, senior vice president of Functional Materials Asia Pacific. This expansion has provided a stable product supply for Hyundai and our other important customers in South Korea and overseas. " "We are pleased to work with our long-term partner Hyundai Motor to explore innovative low VOC solutions for the automotive industry," said Brian SEO of the Korea Business Administration for transport and industry. Based on our technical expertise and material innovation, this is another example of our successful collaboration with Hyundai. "

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