Partnership

Crain Communications
Owner and organiser of the UTECH events in Europe and Asia, as well as the PU events in China and Brazil, was established in 1916 and is now the largest privately owned publishing group in North America. The company created Urethanes Technology magazine in 1984 and this has since become the key communications medium for the global polyurethanes industry. Crain Communications also publishes more than 30 other titles including Plastics News, Rubber and Plastics News, European Rubber Journal, Automotive News, Advertising Age and Business Insurance.

The Center for the Polyurethanes Industry (CPI) of the American Chemistry Council Organizer of the Polyurethanes Conference and Trade Fair in the USA for almost half a century. CPI is part of the American Chemistry Council and promotes the sustainable growth of the polyurethane industry, consistent with the principles of Responsible Care®, by identifying and managing issues that could impact the industry, in cooperation with user groups. Its members include U.S. producers or distributors of chemicals and equipment used to make polyurethane, and polyurethane product manufacturers.

Cream of international PU community
Combining CPI’s Polyurethanes Technical Conference with around 90 papers in any area of polyurethane, including flexible slabstock, flexible molded, rigid foam, soy-based polyols, polyurethane waterborne dispersions, equipment/machinery, cast elastomers, thermoplastic polyurethanes, integral skin, RIM, binders/fillers, coatings, adhesives, sealants and more. And the proven UTECH concept will once again bring together the cream of the international polyurethanes industry to create an efficient, effective and truly international PU market place. It will be the place where the PU community meets to find the solutions required to keep up with an accelerating technology race, and understand the demands of a changing industry committed to ensuring security of supply in an increasingly complex world.