The hull of the boat looks a good deal like a boogie board, built from polyurethane.
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The typical surfboard is a slab of petroleum-spawned polyurethane slathered in layers of toxic polyester resin.
Barrow thinks that one reason for this was the use of seamless whole-body polyurethane swimsuits.
Unlike Dr Jarvik's device, this newfangled bundle of titanium and polyurethane aims to set the patient free.
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The rain seemed to melt off the bike, which is sealed with epoxy and finished with linear polyurethane.
The same physical properties that make polyurethane good for riding waves also make it a heck of a sponge.
For half a century that has meant building boards out of polyurethane, which accounts for about 74% of the market.
The model is made of polyurethane resin board which is normally used for creating models for the motor and aviation industries.
The problem is that some things, such as the polyurethane foam used for the most efficient fridges, cannot be recycled as anything.
Cox stumbled across the idea at his previous company, Green Foam Blanks, which makes surfboard blanks (the foam core of a surfboard) from recycled polyurethane waste.
The forbidding-looking wheels, made by Timken, do away with tire and rim, instead moving on six pairs of polyurethane-covered steel rollers, each angled at 45 degrees to the wheel itself.
Yes, it was nurtured by the Beatles and the summer of love but how central was the invention of polyurethane- polyurea copolymer, or Spandex, down there in Waynesboro?
The stuff is put through a strainer to remove random debris, then sucked via tubes into a vacuum system that blends it with other polyurethane scraps recovered from car dashboards and shipping materials.
It is made from a blend of crushed rock, rubber and polyurethane, a synthetic plastic that replaces bitumen as the binding agent and allows even bigger pores in the road surface.
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Optim insulation is a hybrid material that combines the biostability and flexibility of high-performance silicone rubber with the strength, tear resistance and abrasion resistance of polyurethane, to provide increased durability and flexibility.
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