Geiger Joins Hickory Springs to Lead R&D

May 7, 2012  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in on May 8, 2012 Eric Geiger has joined furniture and bedding component vendor Hickory Springs as corporate director of foam research and development.

He joins the flexible polyurethane foam research and development team at Hickory Springs's foam plant in Conover, N.C., where his direct responsibilities are the internal growth of new foam products and new process development. He joins a dedicated team of researchers that introduced the foam industry to PIPA polyol technology, melamine fire retardant, acetone as an auxiliary blowing agent and, more recently, Preserve first bio-based foam, and the new bio-viscoelastic foam PreserveVG.
 
Geiger has more than 21 years of experience in polyurethane foam.  He spent the past three years as global R&D Manager with fire retardant producer Albemarle Corporation. Previously he was director of R&D with Urethane Soy Systems in South Dakota; and spent 10 years in research with Stepan Company, which specializes in polyester polyols.

"Hickory Springs has a long history as a pioneer in the development of new types of polyurethane foam," said Bobby Bush, senior vice-president of foam and environmental technology at Hickory Springs. "We look forward to seeing how Eric and his 21 years of R&D experience will help lead Hickory Springs' foam division into a new era of innovation and diversification."