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This invention describes the use of higher fatty acid methyl esters, i.e. of methyl monoesters of fatty acids having a carbon chain of 12 C atoms or more, for example of rapeseed oil methyl ester, as solvent for the individual or both components of polyurethane binders for molding materials used in foundry technology, the components of which comprise a phenolic resin which contains free OH groups and a polyisocyanate as a reaction participant. The fatty acid methyl esters can be the sole solvent. However, they also can be used, at least for the polyisocyanate, together with a high boiling aromatic hydrocarbon, whereby the amount of the fatty acid methyl ester should exceed the amount of the hydrocarbon, and they can be used, at least for the phenolic resin, together with a solvent of higher polarity. The use of fatty acid methyl esters entails considerable benefits. In particular, the addition of high-boiling aromatic hydrocarbons which had so far been unavoidable is no longer necessary or can be minimized drastically.

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