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Furniture and Seating

Quality solutions for comfort, durability and style.

Innovative technologies with comfort at the core

People expect furnishing and seating – whether at home, at the office, or in the car – to look good, feel good, and hold up to the stresses of everyday life. And consumers place particular importance on comfort, both for quality of life and a sense of wellbeing. 

At Dow, we work to understand how people experience comfort, and we respond to this through applied science and technology to deliver the most comfortable experience possible. 

The methodology behind our science centers around the three dimensions of comfort: Ergonomics, Microclimate, and Sensation. By configuring these differently, we can create tailored solutions to help deliver a highly comfortable experience and address specific furniture and seating needs.

Solutions for durable, comfortable furnishings

Dow has extensive expertise in polyurethane chemistry, coupled with in-depth knowledge of foam manufacturing and end-use markets. With Dow’s flexible foam products for furniture cushions, office chairs and more, we can help you to achieve tailored performance, improve productivity, sustainability and maximize comfort, including:

  • High-resilience foams for support and durability 
  • High-load-bearing foams for greater firmness 
  • High-performance foams for reduced odor and emissions

Dow’s polyurethane technologies can enable moisture resistance, fight odor formation and withstand normal cleaning procedures. They help manufacturers keep home furnishings fresh by maintaining comfortable levels of temperature and humidity in the microclimate that exists between materials and the human body.

VORALUX™ Custom Systems

Polyurethane systems that offer durability, comfort, and hygiene for foams with different density, hardness, and resilience.

Office chairs

Find out how we are driving sustainable outcomes for our customers

Using our new Mass Balance ComfortScience™ solution, customer Alex Kunststoffe has launched a circular flex polyurethane foam for office chairs containing 66%* of circular content in each kilogram of polyol. This results in a 41% reduction in global warming potential while reducing its Scope 3 emissions from foam manufacturing**.  

It's just one of the ways that we’re innovating to enable more sustainable outcomes for the industry.  

* Circular content attributed by mass balance following ISCC Plus 

** Product Carbon Footprint internally calculated following ISO 14040/44/67 cradle-to- gate+ waste EoL. Recycling system calculated using system expansion (cut-off approach TfS, the Gold standard for calculating PCF in Chemical industry). TfS= Together for Sustainability 

Automotive and consumer seating that stands out

Manufacturers of automotive and consumer seating products need to differentiate their product offerings in terms of quality, aesthetics and comfort.  

Dow’s raw materials allow for increased design freedom due to excellent foam flowability and better compression-set properties compared with other solutions. These properties help improve foam shape memory after compression.

Using the right polyether polyols can help reduce volatile organic chemical (VOC) emissions from molded foams by as much as 50%, aiding in the reduction of windshield fogging, PVC staining and polycarbonate degradation. 

SPECFLEX™ Custom Systems

Customizable polyurethane foams for automotive seating for drivers demanding sustainability, durability and comfort.

White leather interior of the luxury modern car. Leather comfortable white seats and multimedia. Steering wheel and dashboard. automatic gear stick. Car interior details. Black and white

Style, comfort, sustainability

When it comes to vehicle seating the possibilities are endless. Learn more. 

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