The Center for the Polyurethanes Industry (CPI) of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) named the recipients of two prestigious industry awards – the 2024 Polyurethane Innovation Award and the 2024 Distinguished Leadership Award. Both awards were presented during the closing session at the 2024 Polyurethanes Technical Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
Woodbridge Receives 2024 Polyurethane Innovation Award
The winner of the 2024 Polyurethane Innovation Award is Woodbridge. The top industry honor recognizes companies with vision and perseverance that bring new innovative, life-enhancing products, technologies, and initiatives to the marketplace. Eligible innovations must have entered the market, for the first time, between June 19, 2022, and June 20, 2024.
CPI congratulates Woodbridge on this achievement. Sustainability is at the top of mind for manufacturers and the value chain. Woodbridge’s TrimVisible™ BIO illustrates how polyurethanes are helping drive progress with durable solutions, and CPI is proud to recognize and honor Woodbridge on this cutting-edge innovation.
Woodbridge describes its winning entry as: TrimVisible™ BIO combines biogenic carbon from forest residue with high-performance polyurethane seating foam chemistry. This exclusive technology reduces automotive seating foam’s overall global warming potential (GWP) by displacing traditional urethane chemical components. This technology is available in automotive seating, ensuring that performance and comfort are not compromised.
This year, three finalists were selected to present their products at the 2024 Polyurethanes Technical Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, the other two being Huntsman and Incorez.
CPI Recognizes DuPont’s Massaro-Kustuch with 2024 Distinguished Leadership Award
The recipient of the 2024 Distinguished Leadership Award is Lisa Massaro-Kustuch of DuPont.
CPI established the Distinguished Leadership Award to recognize individuals who have provided outstanding leadership and advanced the goals of CPI as well as the interests of the industry.
Massaro-Kustuch’s experience in the polyurethanes industry goes back more than a decade, and she currently serves as global advocacy & product stewardship manager at DuPont, supporting the DuPont Performance Building Solutions business. Previously she was at Dow Chemical Company as the environmental health & safety product stewardship manager, supporting Dow Building Solutions and Dow Building & Construction.
Her numerous contributions to CPI include a prominent role in CPI’s ongoing discussions with the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), regarding the Safer Consumer Products regulation of spray foam. Since 2020, she’s served as chair of CPI’s Blowing Agents Workgroup and played a critical part in the establishment of a Code of Practice for Low-Pressure Two-Component Spray Polyurethane Foam Products adopted by Canadian authorities in 2020. Her work has been recognized with the “Best Paper” award three times at previous Polyurethanes Technical Conferences.
