Further development of thermoplastic polyurethanes
continued through the 1950s and 1960. In
1962 a group from the B.F. Goodrich Company
presented an article on “Virtually cross-linked polymer,
Polyurethane VC,” which was soluble, had
high tensile strength, good elasticity, high abrasion
resistance, and could be processed as a thermoplastic
[10, 11]. Commercial polyurethane thermoplastic
elastomers were introduced in the 1960s by B.F.
Goodrich, Mobay and Upjohn in the United States,
and by Bayer A.G. and Elastogran in Europe.