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September 8, 1998

Furon Company
29982 Ivy Glenn Drive
Laguna Niguel, CA  92677-2044

Re:  Registration Statement on Form S-8
     of Furon Company (the "Company")

Gentlemen:

     At your request, we have examined the Registration
Statement on Form S-8 to be filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission in connection with the registration under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of 300,000 shares of Common
Stock,
without par value, of the Company (the "Common Stock"), and
additional rights pursuant to the Company's Rights Agreement
dated March 21, 1989, as amended, with The Bank of New York, as
rights
agent (the "Rights" and, together with the Common Stock, the
"Shares"),
and $2,500,000 of Deferred Compensation Obligations of the
Company
(the "Obligations"), to be issued or delivered pursuant to the
Furon
Company Deferred Compensation Plan (the "Plan"). We have examined
the proceedings heretofore taken and to be taken in connection
with
the authorization of the Plan, the Shares, and the Obligations to
be
issued or delivered pursuant to and in accordance with the Plan.
We
have been advised by you that the Common Stock to be delivered
pursuant
to and in accordance with the Plan will be purchased by the
Company
on the open market.

     Based upon such examination and upon such matters of fact
and law
as we have deemed relevant, we are of the opinion that the Shares
and
the Obligations have been duly authorized by all necessary
corporate
action on the part of the Company and, when issued or delivered
in
accordance with such authorization, the provisions of the Plan
and
relevant agreements duly authorized by and in accordance with the
terms of the Plan, the Shares will be validly issued, the Common
Stock
will be fully paid and nonassessable, and the Obligations will be
validly issued, legally binding obligations of the Company.

     We consent to the use of this opinion as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement.

                                    Respectfully submitted,
                                    /s/ O'Melveny & Myers LLP