As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 10, 1998.
                                                Registration No. 333-_____

               SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                     Washington, D.C. 20549
                       -------------------
                              FORM S-8
                     REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                               UNDER
                   THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                       --------------------
                          Furon Company
     (Exact name of registrant as specified in
                          its charter)
                       --------------------
California                                     95-1947155
(State or other jurisdiction of            (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)            Identification No.)

                    29982 Ivy Glenn Drive
             Laguna Niguel, California 92677-2044
                       (714) 831-5350
            (Address of principal executive offices)
                      ---------------------
       Furon Company Economic Value Added (EVA) Incentive
                      Compensation Plan
                   (Full title of the plan)
                      ---------------------
                        Donald D. Bradley
                  General Counsel and Secretary
                          Furon Company
                      29982 Ivy Glenn Drive
              Laguna Niguel, California 92677-2044
             (Name and address of agent for service)

 Telephone number, including area code, of agent for
  service: (949) 831-5350
                     ----------------------
                CALCULATION  OF REGISTRATION  FEE
<TABLE>
<C>           <S>                <S>
Title of      Amount        Proposed    Proposed      Amount of
securities    to be         maximum     maximum       registration
to be         registered    offering    aggregate     fee
registered                  price       offering
                            per unit    price

Common Stock, 350,000<1><2> $17.3125<3> $6,059,375<3> $1,788<3>
without par
value

---------------------
<FN>
   <1>  This Registration Statement covers, in
        addition to the number of shares of Common Stock
        stated above, other rights to purchase or acquire
        the shares of Common Stock covered by the
        Prospectus and, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the
        Securities Act of 1933, an indeterminate number
        of shares and rights which by reason of certain
        events specified in the Furon Company Economic
        Value Added (EVA) Incentive
        Compensation Plan (the "Plan") may become
        subject to the Plan.

   <2>  Each share is accompanied by a common share
        purchase right pursuant to the Registrant's
        Rights Agreement, dated March 21, 1989, as
        amended, with The Bank of New York, as Rights
        Agent.

   <3>  Pursuant to Rule 457(h), the maximum offering
        price, per share and in the aggregate, and the
        registration fee were calculated based upon the
        average of the high and low prices of the Common
        Stock on September 2, 1998, as reported on the
        New York Stock Exchange and published in the
        Western Edition of The Wall Street Journal.

The Exhibit Index for this Registration Statement
is at page S-3.
</FN>
</TABLE>
<PAGE>
                            PART I

                   INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
                    SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

     The documents containing the information
specified in Part I of Form S-8 (plan information
and registrant information) will be sent or given to
employees as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").
Such documents need not be filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") either as
part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or
prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 of the
Securities Act.  These documents, which
include the statement of availability required
by Item 2 of Form S-8, and the documents incorporated
by reference in this Registration Statement pursuant
to Item 3 of Form S-8 (Part II hereof), taken together,
constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of
Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.

<PAGE>

                           PART II
                   INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
                     REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.  Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference.

     The following documents of Furon Company (the "Company") filed
with the commission are incorporated herein by reference:

     (a)  The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
          year ended January 31, 1998, filed with the Commission
          on April 9, 1998;

     (b)  The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
          quarterly period ended May 2, 1998, filed with the
          Commission on May 29, 1998; and

     (c)  The Description of the Company's Common Stock included
          in its Registration Statements on Forms 8-A, each dated
          and filed with the Commission on January 23, 1995, and
          any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating
          such description;

All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered
hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining
unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into the
prospectus and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of
such documents.  Any statement contained herein or in a document,
all or a portion of which is incorporated or deemed to be incorporated
by reference herein, shall be deemed to be modified or superseded
for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a
statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed
document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference
herein modifies or supersedes such statement.  Any such statement so
modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified
or amended, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

Item 4.  Description of Securities

     The Company's Common Stock is registered
pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act, and,
therefore, the description of securities is omitted.

Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel

Not applicable.

Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers

     The Company's Restated Articles of
Incorporation contain a provision which eliminates
the liability of directors for monetary damages to
the fullest extent permissible under California
law.  The General Corporation Law of California
(the "Law") (i) eliminates the liability of
directors for monetary damages in an action
brought by a shareholder in the right of the
Company (referred to herein as a "derivative
action") or by the Company for breach of a
director's duties to the Company and its
shareholders and (ii) authorizes the Company to
indemnify directors and officers
for monetary damages for all acts or
omissions committed by them in their respective
capacities; provided, however, that liability is not
limited nor may indemnification be provided for
(a) acts or omissions that involve intentional
misconduct or a knowing and culpable
violation of law, (b) for acts or omissions that a
director or officer believes to be contrary to the best
interests of the Company or its shareholders or
that involve the absence of good faith on the
part of a director or officer seeking
indemnification, (c) for any transaction from which
a director or officer derives an improper personal
benefit, (d) for acts or omissions that show a
reckless disregard for the director's or
officer's duty to the Company or its
shareholders in circumstances in which such person
was aware, or should have been aware, in the ordinary
course of performing his duties, of a risk of serious
injury to the Company or its shareholders, (e) for
acts or omissions that constitute an unexcused pattern
of inattention that amounts to an abdication of the
director's or officer's duty to the Company or its
shareholders, and (f) for liabilities arising
under Section 310 (contracts in which a director
has a material financial interest) and 316
(certain unlawful dividends, distributions, loans
and guarantees) of the Law.  In addition, the
Company may not indemnify directors and officers
in circumstances in which indemnification is
expressly prohibited by Section 317 of the Law.

     The Amended and Restated Bylaws of the
Company provide that indemnification for directors
and officers must be provided to the fullest
extent permitted under California law and the
Company's Restated Articles of Incorporation.  The
Company has entered into indemnification
agreements with its directors and officers which
require that the Company indemnify such directors
and officers in all cases to the fullest extent permitted by
applicable provisions of the Law.  The Company also
maintains a directors' and officers' liability
insurance policy insuring directors and officers
 of the Company.

Item 7.  Exemption from Registration Claimed

     Not applicable.

Item 8.  Exhibits

     See the attached Exhibit Index on page S-3.

Item 9.  Undertakings

     (a)  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

          (1)  To file, during any period in which offers
     or sales are being made, a post-effective
     amendment to this Registration Statement:

               (i)  To include any prospectus required by
           Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;

               (ii)  To reflect in the prospectus any facts
           or events arising after the effective date of this
           Registration Statement (or the most recent
           post-effective amendment thereof) which,
           individually or in the aggregate, represent
           a fundamental change in the information set forth
           in this Registration Statement; and

               (iii)  To include any material information with
          respect to the plan of distribution not previously
          disclosed in this Registration Statement or any
          material change to such information in this
          Registration Statement; Provided, however, that
          paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply
          if the information required to be included in
          a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs
          is contained in periodic reports filed by the
          registrant with or furnished to the Commission
          pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
          Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference
          in this Registration Statement;

          (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any
     liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective
     amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
     relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering
     of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the
     initial bona fide offering thereof; and

          (3)  To remove from registration by means of a
     post-effective amendment any of the securities being
     registered which remain unsold at the termination of
     the offering.

     (b)  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that,
for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities
Act, each filing of the registrant's annual report pursuant
to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where
applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report
pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated
by reference in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to
be a new registration statement relating to the securities
offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that
time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

     (h)  Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising
under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers
and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the
provisions described in Item 6 above, or otherwise, the
registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the
Commission such indemnification is against public policy
as expressed in the Securities  Act and is, therefore,
unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer
or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense
of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director,
officer or controlling person in connection with the securities
being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion
of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling
precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction
the question whether such indemnification by it is against
public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be
governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

<PAGE>

                                 SIGNATURES

     Pursuant  to  the requirements of the Securities  Act,
the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to
believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing
on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement
to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the City of Laguna Niguel, State of
California, on September  9, 1998.

                                     By:  /s/ J. Michael Hagan
                                         -------------------------
                                         J. Michael Hagan
                                         Its: Chairman of the Board
                                              and Chief Executive
                                              Officer

                          POWER OF ATTORNEY

     Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and
appoints J. Michael Hagan and Donald D. Bradley, or either of them
individually, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent,
with full powers of substitution and resubstitution, for him
and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities,
to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective
amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the
same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in
connection therewith, with the Commission, granting unto
said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or either of them
individually, full power and authority to do and perform each
and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done
in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and
purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact
and agents, or either of them individually, or his
substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause
to be done by virtue hereof.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act
of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below
by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates
indicated.

<TABLE>

<S>                      <C>                    <C>

Signature                Title                  Date

/s/ J. Michael Hagan     Chairman of the       September 9, 1998
J. Michael Hagan         Board and Chief
                         Executive Officer
                         (Principal Executive
                         Officer)

/s/ Terrence A. Noonan   President, Chief      September 9, 1998
Terrence A. Noonan       Operating Officer
                         and Director

/s/ Peter Churm          Chairman Emeritus,    September 9, 1998
Peter Churm              Director

/s/ Monty A. Houdeshell  Vice President and    September 9,1998
Monty A. Houdeshell      Chief Financial
                         Officer (Principal
                         Financial Officer)

/s/ David L. Mascarin    Controller          September 9, 1998
David L. Mascarin        (Principal
                         Accounting Officer)

/s/ Cochrane Chase       Director            September 9, 1998
Cochrane Chase

/s/ William D. Cvengros  Director            September 9, 1998
William D. Cvengros

/s/ Bruce E. Ranck       Director            September 9, 1998
Bruce E. Ranck

/s/ William C. Shepherd  Director            September 9, 1998
William C. Shepherd

/s/ R. David Threshie    Director            September 9, 1998
R. David Threshie

<PAGE>
          EXHIBIT INDEX

</TABLE>
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
<S>         <C>
Exhibit
Number      Description

4.          Furon Company Economic Value Added (EVA) Incentive
            Compensation Plan.

5.          Opinion of O'Melveny & Myers LLP
            (opinion re legality).

23.1        Consent of Ernst & Young LLP (consent of independent
            auditors).

23.2        Consent of O'Melveny & Myers LLP
            (included in Exhibit 5).

24.         Power of Attorney (included in this Registration
            Statement under "Signatures").
<PAGE>
</TABLE>
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 10, 1998.
                                                Registration No. 333-_____

               SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                     Washington, D.C. 20549
                       -------------------
                              FORM S-8
                     REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                               UNDER
                   THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                       --------------------
                          Furon Company
     (Exact name of registrant as specified in
                          its charter)
                       --------------------
California                                     95-1947155
(State or other jurisdiction of            (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)            Identification No.)

                    29982 Ivy Glenn Drive
             Laguna Niguel, California 92677-2044
                       (714) 831-5350
            (Address of principal executive offices)
                      ---------------------
       Furon Company Economic Value Added (EVA) Incentive
                      Compensation Plan
                   (Full title of the plan)
                      ---------------------
                        Donald D. Bradley
                  General Counsel and Secretary
                          Furon Company
                      29982 Ivy Glenn Drive
              Laguna Niguel, California 92677-2044
             (Name and address of agent for service)

 Telephone number, including area code, of agent for
  service: (949) 831-5350
                     ----------------------
                CALCULATION  OF REGISTRATION  FEE
Title of      Amount        Proposed    Proposed      Amount of
securities    to be         maximum     maximum       registration
to be         registered    offering    aggregate     fee
registered                  price       offering
                            per unit    price

Common Stock, 350,000<1><2> $17.3125<3> $6,059,375<3> $1,788<3>
without par
value

---------------------
<1>  This Registration Statement covers, in
        addition to the number of shares of Common Stock
        stated above, other rights to purchase or acquire
        the shares of Common Stock covered by the
        Prospectus and, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the
        Securities Act of 1933, an indeterminate number
        of shares and rights which by reason of certain
        events specified in the Furon Company Economic
        Value Added (EVA) Incentive
        Compensation Plan (the "Plan") may become
        subject to the Plan.

   <2>  Each share is accompanied by a common share
        purchase right pursuant to the Registrant's
        Rights Agreement, dated March 21, 1989, as
        amended, with The Bank of New York, as Rights
        Agent.

   <3>  Pursuant to Rule 457(h), the maximum offering
        price, per share and in the aggregate, and the
        registration fee were calculated based upon the
        average of the high and low prices of the Common
        Stock on September 2, 1998, as reported on the
        New York Stock Exchange and published in the
        Western Edition of The Wall Street Journal.

The Exhibit Index for this Registration Statement
is at page S-3.
PART I

                   INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
                    SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

     The documents containing the information
specified in Part I of Form S-8 (plan information
and registrant information) will be sent or given to
employees as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").
Such documents need not be filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") either as
part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or
prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 of the
Securities Act.  These documents, which
include the statement of availability required
by Item 2 of Form S-8, and the documents incorporated
by reference in this Registration Statement pursuant
to Item 3 of Form S-8 (Part II hereof), taken together,
constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of
Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.
PART II
                   INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
                     REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.  Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference.

     The following documents of Furon Company (the "Company") filed
with the commission are incorporated herein by reference:

     (a)  The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
          year ended January 31, 1998, filed with the Commission
          on April 9, 1998;

     (b)  The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
          quarterly period ended May 2, 1998, filed with the
          Commission on May 29, 1998; and

     (c)  The Description of the Company's Common Stock included
          in its Registration Statements on Forms 8-A, each dated
          and filed with the Commission on January 23, 1995, and
          any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating
          such description;

All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered
hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining
unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into the
prospectus and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of
such documents.  Any statement contained herein or in a document,
all or a portion of which is incorporated or deemed to be incorporated
by reference herein, shall be deemed to be modified or superseded
for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a
statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed
document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference
herein modifies or supersedes such statement.  Any such statement so
modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified
or amended, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

Item 4.  Description of Securities

     The Company's Common Stock is registered
pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act, and,
therefore, the description of securities is omitted.

Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel

Not applicable.

Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers

     The Company's Restated Articles of
Incorporation contain a provision which eliminates
the liability of directors for monetary damages to
the fullest extent permissible under California
law.  The General Corporation Law of California
(the "Law") (i) eliminates the liability of
directors for monetary damages in an action
brought by a shareholder in the right of the
Company (referred to herein as a "derivative
action") or by the Company for breach of a
director's duties to the Company and its
shareholders and (ii) authorizes the Company to
indemnify directors and officers
for monetary damages for all acts or
omissions committed by them in their respective
capacities; provided, however, that liability is not
limited nor may indemnification be provided for
(a) acts or omissions that involve intentional
misconduct or a knowing and culpable
violation of law, (b) for acts or omissions that a
director or officer believes to be contrary to the best
interests of the Company or its shareholders or
that involve the absence of good faith on the
part of a director or officer seeking
indemnification, (c) for any transaction from which
a director or officer derives an improper personal
benefit, (d) for acts or omissions that show a
reckless disregard for the director's or
officer's duty to the Company or its
shareholders in circumstances in which such person
was aware, or should have been aware, in the ordinary
course of performing his duties, of a risk of serious
injury to the Company or its shareholders, (e) for
acts or omissions that constitute an unexcused pattern
of inattention that amounts to an abdication of the
director's or officer's duty to the Company or its
shareholders, and (f) for liabilities arising
under Section 310 (contracts in which a director
has a material financial interest) and 316
(certain unlawful dividends, distributions, loans
and guarantees) of the Law.  In addition, the
Company may not indemnify directors and officers
in circumstances in which indemnification is
expressly prohibited by Section 317 of the Law.

     The Amended and Restated Bylaws of the
Company provide that indemnification for directors
and officers must be provided to the fullest
extent permitted under California law and the
Company's Restated Articles of Incorporation.  The
Company has entered into indemnification
agreements with its directors and officers which
require that the Company indemnify such directors
and officers in all cases to the fullest extent permitted by
applicable provisions of the Law.  The Company also
maintains a directors' and officers' liability
insurance policy insuring directors and officers
 of the Company.

Item 7.  Exemption from Registration Claimed

     Not applicable.

Item 8.  Exhibits

     See the attached Exhibit Index on page S-3.

Item 9.  Undertakings

     (a)  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

          (1)  To file, during any period in which offers
     or sales are being made, a post-effective
     amendment to this Registration Statement:

               (i)  To include any prospectus required by
           Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;

               (ii)  To reflect in the prospectus any facts
           or events arising after the effective date of this
           Registration Statement (or the most recent
           post-effective amendment thereof) which,
           individually or in the aggregate, represent
           a fundamental change in the information set forth
           in this Registration Statement; and

               (iii)  To include any material information with
          respect to the plan of distribution not previously
          disclosed in this Registration Statement or any
          material change to such information in this
          Registration Statement; Provided, however, that
          paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply
          if the information required to be included in
          a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs
          is contained in periodic reports filed by the
          registrant with or furnished to the Commission
          pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
          Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference
          in this Registration Statement;

          (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any
     liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective
     amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
     relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering
     of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the
     initial bona fide offering thereof; and

          (3)  To remove from registration by means of a
     post-effective amendment any of the securities being
     registered which remain unsold at the termination of
     the offering.

     (b)  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that,
for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities
Act, each filing of the registrant's annual report pursuant
to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where
applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report
pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated
by reference in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to
be a new registration statement relating to the securities
offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that
time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

     (h)  Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising
under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers
and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the
provisions described in Item 6 above, or otherwise, the
registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the
Commission such indemnification is against public policy
as expressed in the Securities  Act and is, therefore,
unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer
or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense
of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director,
officer or controlling person in connection with the securities
being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion
of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling
precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction
the question whether such indemnification by it is against
public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be
governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
SIGNATURES

     Pursuant  to  the requirements of the Securities  Act,
the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to
believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing
on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement
to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the City of Laguna Niguel, State of
California, on September  9, 1998.

                                     By:  /s/ J. Michael Hagan
                                         -------------------------
                                         J. Michael Hagan
                                         Its: Chairman of the Board
                                              and Chief Executive
                                              Officer

                          POWER OF ATTORNEY

     Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and
appoints J. Michael Hagan and Donald D. Bradley, or either of them
individually, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent,
with full powers of substitution and resubstitution, for him
and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities,
to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective
amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the
same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in
connection therewith, with the Commission, granting unto
said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or either of them
individually, full power and authority to do and perform each
and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done
in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and
purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact
and agents, or either of them individually, or his
substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause
to be done by virtue hereof.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act
of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below
by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates
indicated.
Signature                Title                  Date

/s/ J. Michael Hagan     Chairman of the       September 9, 1998
J. Michael Hagan         Board and Chief
                         Executive Officer
                         (Principal Executive
                         Officer)

/s/ Terrence A. Noonan   President, Chief      September 9, 1998
Terrence A. Noonan       Operating Officer
                         and Director

/s/ Peter Churm          Chairman Emeritus,    September 9, 1998
Peter Churm              Director

/s/ Monty A. Houdeshell  Vice President and    September 9,1998
Monty A. Houdeshell      Chief Financial
                         Officer (Principal
                         Financial Officer)

/s/ David L. Mascarin    Controller          September 9, 1998
David L. Mascarin        (Principal
                         Accounting Officer)

/s/ Cochrane Chase       Director            September 9, 1998
Cochrane Chase

/s/ William D. Cvengros  Director            September 9, 1998
William D. Cvengros

/s/ Bruce E. Ranck       Director            September 9, 1998
Bruce E. Ranck

/s/ William C. Shepherd  Director            September 9, 1998
William C. Shepherd

/s/ R. David Threshie    Director            September 9, 1998
R. David Threshie
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
Number      Description

4.          Furon Company Economic Value Added (EVA) Incentive
            Compensation Plan.

5.          Opinion of O'Melveny & Myers LLP
            (opinion re legality).

23.1        Consent of Ernst & Young LLP (consent of independent
            auditors).

23.2        Consent of O'Melveny & Myers LLP
            (included in Exhibit 5).

24.         Power of Attorney (included in this Registration
            Statement under "Signatures").