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Table 2

Raw material, trade names and major producers of vegetable oil-based polyols and PUs in 2009 (Shen and Patel, 2009).

Bio-based	Product type	Trade	PU	Company	Capacity
raw material	Product type	name	applications	Company	p.a.


Soybean oil	Polyol	BiOH ^TM	Flexible foams	Cargill	~10 kt ^c
	Polyol	Renuva ^TM	Flexible foams	Dow	n/a
			and CASE^a
	Polyol	SoyOyl ^®	Flexible and	Urethane	23–34 kt
			rigid foams,	Soy
			PUR spray foam,	System
			elastomers
	Polyol	Agrol ^®	CASE,	Bio-based	n/a
	PU	Bio-based ^®	moulded foams	Technologies	n/a
	PU	Baydur ^®	Rigid and flexible	BASF	n/a
	PU	SOVERMOL ^®	foams^b	BASF	n/a
Castor oil	Polyol	Lupranol ^®	Rigid foams	BASF	n/a
		BALANCE	/mattresses	BASF	n/a
	Polyol	POLYCIN ^®	Coating	Vertellus	n/a
	Polyol		Flexible and	Mitsui	8kt
	PU		rigid foams	Chemicals	8kt
Rapeseed	Polyol		Rigid foams/	IFS	~1kt ^d
oil			refrigerator	Chemicals
			insulation
Sunflower	PU	RUBEX	Flexible foams/	Metzeler	n/a
oil		NAWARO ^®	mattresses	Schaum
Palm oil	Polyol	Edenor ^®,	Foams,	Emery
		Emersol ^®,	coatings,	Oleo-	n/a
		Emery ^®	adhesives	Chemicals
Vegetable	Polyol	RADIA ^®	Flexible and	OLEON –	n/a
oil			rigid foams	Avril Group
	Polyol	PRIPLAST ^TM	Coatings, adhesives	CRODA	n/a

CASE: Coatings, Adhesives, Sealants and Elastomers;

for Bayer’s flexible PU foams, SoyOyl polyols from Urethane Soy System are used;

^c,d

estimation;

projected data for the next 2–4 years by the company.

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