The Sulingen-based German company H & S Anlagentechnik GmbH announced that it has developed an innovative technology and reactor installation for the chemical conversion of polyurethane foam out of post-consumer mattresses into high quality polyols for application in rigid PU foams.
Mattresses are not bio-degradable, which makes it very difficult to recycle them in a conventional way, says the company. With up to 30 million mattresses annually reaching their end-of-life in the …