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For more than 45 years now, KraussMaffei has been active in the area of processing polyurethane and has been building premium quality machines and systems for this purpose. 
The games at the European Soccer Championship will be played to the rhythm of the “Tango 12,” a cutting-edge synthetic ball that is fast, robust and precise. The adidas ball sports a new design and is based on proven materials from Bayer MaterialScience. 
New polyurethane insulation system enables even greater energy and cost efficiency. 
Held in the year the industry celebrates 75 years since the initial patent marking the advent of polyurethanes chemistry, UTECH Europe 2012 attracted 160 exhibiting companies, a 14% increase from when the event was last held in 2009. 
Bayer MaterialScience develops polyurethane system for even more energy-efficient vehicles 
Lightweight construction is trump in the automotive industry. But now the railroad industry is also thinking more seriously about weight reduction programs for diesel trains, for example, to reduce fuel consumption, costs and carbon dioxide emissions. 
Developments in the use of polyurethane-based products in the building and construction sector will be explored at the UTECH Europe Conference. 
The increasingly important role of polyurethanes in the automotive industry will be evident at UTECH Europe this year, with experts discussing some of the latest advances relevant to the sector during the three-day conference. 
A Bayer project for using the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide as a component for plastics is among Germany’s most promising ideas for the future. 
75 years after Prof. Otto Bayer’s initial patent marking the advent of polyurethanes chemistry in 1937, the organisers of UTECH Europe 2012 taking place in Maastricht, The Netherlands 17-19 April, have announced the full speaker programme for the three-day conference and confirmed that the accompanying exhibition will be the biggest ever staged. 
