Jaguar Land Rover hails car seat recycling breakthrough

Michael Holder
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Credit: JLR

Luxury carmaker teams up with Dow and Adient to develop 'closed loop' process for reusing polyurethane foam in its car seats

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has successfully recycled old plastic-derived foam used in its car seats so the materials can be used again to manufacture new car seats, in what it hailed as a significant technical...

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