Mr. Berthevas worked for the past 28 years on Polyurethane Chemistries and Application Technologies for Union Carbide Corporation, BP Chemicals and Dow Chemical and contributed to the development of Copolymer Polyols and their use in flexible polyurethane foams and co-authored a number of papers on the subject. He also developed chemistries and application technologies for the production of knife coatable, heat curable microcellular polyurethane frothed foams and holds patents on this application technology. In 1993 he became Global Technology Manager at Dow Chemical with responsibility for molded polyurethane foams and in 1998 Senior Development Associate responsible for Dow global flexible foam recycling project. Since January 2002 he is a Consultant at INSAM SA.Paul Berthevas graduated from the "Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris", in 1968. |