Woodbridge Foam Corporation

Company Profile

■URL

https://www.woodbridgegroup.com/

■Address

4240 Sherwoodtowne Boulevard, Mississauga, Ontario, L4Z 2G6, Canada

Business Overview

-The Company provides material technologies for applications in a wide range of markets including automotive, commercial, recreational, packaging, healthcare and building products. It is a global leader in the development and production of polyurethane products.

-For the automotive industry, the Company manufactures molded foam, expanded foam, chemicals, components, and engineered composites for applications including seating, structural support, occupant protection, headliner systems, exterior bumper assemblies, and NVH management.

Shareholders

-The Company is privately owned.

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Products

Seating
-Seatback panel assemblies
-Seat back bolsters
-Rear seat stacked interior components
-Flexible foam

Climate-controlled seating foam
Flexible foam lamination
Low-emission flexible foam
Topper pads

-Molded foam

Adaptive comfort and support foams
TrimVisible foam products enabling visual transition between exposed seating components
Textured surface foams
High-performance foams
Multi-zone foams

-Head restraints

Head restraint assembly
Energy management polyurethane foam
Foam-in-place head restraint assembly
Integral skin head restraint
Foam-on-rod assemblies
High-resiliency foams
Dual hardness foams
Comfort safe head restraints
Head restraint mechanisms

-Encapsulated StructureLite Module combining seating support with urethane seating pad in a single module
-Integral skin seat armrests
-Foam-in-place armrest assemblies
-StructureLite structural seat foam

Interior
-Cab back panel insulators
-Interior soft trim spacer foams
-Thin profile interior foam door armrests
-Thin profile interior foam console armrests
-Integral skin door armrests
-Integral skin console armrests
-Load floors
-Rear seat bolster foams
-Rear seat bolster assemblies
-Coverstock headliner foam
-Headliner composites
-Thin, high-strength headliner composites
-Cargo management solutions
-Package trays
-Energy management foam
-Acoustical foam
-Technical foams for filters or NVH applications

Exterior
-Structural exterior foam bumper assemblies
-Underhood insulators
-Underbody shields
-Tailgate liners
-Compressor shields
-Acoustical heat shields
-Wheel liners

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History

1978	Began its business as the Woodbridge Foam Corporation, a privately owned Canadian supplier created by the purchase of the polyurethane foam division of the Monsanto Corporation in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada.
Early 1980s	Experienced growth primarily through acquisitions.
Late 1980s	Expanded further by building new facilities strategically located near the Company's customers.
Mar. 1999	Group and Poliuretanos S. W., de C. V. announced the expansion of their Joint Venture with the addition of a third manufacturing facility in Mexico.
Apr. 1999	Opened manufacturing facility in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.
Sep. 1999	Signed contracts with the Belgian Group, Recticel. Recticel will have a 51% stake in the manufacturing joint venture and the Company will have 49%.
Feb. 2000	Acquired the Morval division of PFB Corporation of Calgary Alberta for CAD 17 million.
Mar. 2001	Woodbridge and its European partner Recticel will together acquire 50% of Gestind.
May 2001	Signed a letter of intent to enter into a Joint Venture with Technicon Industries Inc. of North Carolina.
Jan. 2005	New address of Automotive Headquarters.
Sep. 2005	Established a joint venture in China with Chinese company called GSK.
May 2007	Johnson Controls (JCI) joined with Proseat (a joint venture between Recticel and the Company) to set up a new manufacturing joint venture for the production of molded foam seating cushions in Slovakia and Poland.
Nov. 2007	The Group and Inoac Corp. announced to establish four joint venture companies in North America.
Jul. 2008	Proseat (joint venture with Recticel S.A.) has signed an agreement for the takeover of all the shares of Indepol, a Spanish moulded foam manufacturer.
Jul. 2011	The Company and Wuxi Jixing Auto Parts Co., Ltd. announced that they have agreed to form a joint venture "Wuxi Woodbridge Jixing Advanced Polymer Technology Co, Ltd." in China.
Aug. 2011	The Company and the Summa Group announced the expansion of their partnership, with the establishment of a joint venture "DuraLite Formed Plastics" in Leon, Mexico.
Jan. 2018	The Company and Inoac announced that they had set up a new equal joint venture "Woodbridge INOAC Technical Products".
Dec. 2018	The Company announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell its stake in Proseat, its European joint venture, to partner Recticel S.A.
Nov. 2021	Completed acquisition of Hematite, a company specializing in NVH technology development.