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Today, our materials shape your environment. They combine efficient production with high performance for sturdy buildings and beautiful interiors. Our next aim? Even more tailored offerings, and circular coating solutions: your building blocks for a brighter future.
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Challenge: Standing the test of time

Coatings for buildings, and the decorative elements within them, face several challenges when it comes to standing the test of time.

Construction sites rely on minimal downtime within tight project deadlines. Ideally, you want to ensure a quick turnaround by choosing coatings that cure faster and require fewer layers of application.

Once applied, the challenges don’t stop. Exterior structures need to withstand harsh conditions and long-term use so they remain strong and functional even after decades. Meanwhile, interior elements must be able to withstand the wear and tear of everyday life. At the same time, all these features need to maintain an attractive appearance that makes people feel at home.

As well as supporting these aims, construction and architectural coatings also have to keep up with ever-increasing demands and regulations around sustainability and health. And the sector must address these demands in dialog with a range of stakeholders. These include governments, NGOs, architects and construction companies, designers and painters, and the general public.

Key Drivers

  • Sustainability on every level

    Sustainability on every level

    Sustainability needs to be one of the key criteria for any construction or architectural application, particularly in the light of increasingly tough coatings regulations.

  • Delivering the full package

    Delivering the full package

    Manufacturers of coatings for construction and architectural applications don’t just look for the right raw materials – they also look for technical expertise, shared dialogs, and formulation advice to make the most of those materials.

  • Speeding up processes

    Speeding up processes

    Downtime and long process times are key challenges in construction and architectural applications – the right materials and technologies help you minimize them.

Status: Top performance from floor to ceiling  

To create coatings that meet these demands, you need both experience and knowledge of your markets, and the flexibility and inventiveness to develop novel solutions from scratch. The right materials for construction and architectural coatings should support productivity, minimize downtime, withstand harsh conditions, and comply with ever- changing regulations.

We’re already helping you meet these needs with a range of solutions. Our Pasquick® technology, for instance, delivers the same level of protection as conventional coatings but cures up to eight times faster than standard systems. And our NeoCryl® resins for interior and exterior wall coatings offer good scrub and stain resistance and exterior durability.

It’s also now imperative for manufacturers to offer more sustainable and circular options. But how can you do this without sacrificing product performance? To deliver these more sustainable solutions without compromise, attention is turning to partly plant-based content and cleaner energy sources – such as in solutions like our Decovery® portfolio, which contains up to 52% plant-based content.

But customers need more than the products themselves: they also need support when considering the context in which they choose these products. Through close collaboration, we try to meet these demands with, for example, Sustainability Dialogs, technical benchmarking and assistance in choosing the right resins to match the properties and applications they have in mind. 

Facts & figures

  • Productivity is a necessity

    Productivity is a necessity

    In 2022, the labour shortage indicator in the construction sector stood at 32.8% in the EU. This creates a necessity for materials that boost efficiency through, for example, fewer coating layers and reduced downtime. ¹

  • Sustainable transition is key

    Sustainable transition is key

    The International Energy Agency’s Net Zero Emissions by 2050 Scenario requires all new buildings to be zero-carbon-ready by 2030. ²

  • Acrylics lead the way

    Acrylics lead the way

    Acrylic resins are one of the most popular types of resins for architectural coatings. ³

Next: Thinking big for tomorrow’s homes and cities

With an ever-growing world population and major ecological challenges, all construction and architectural players will need to make a joint effort to shape the sector’s future. We have to see the big picture, and we have to think big.

At Covestro, we’re already exploring Big Data, search behaviors, and stakeholder research to provide the market insights to come up with future-looking, more sustainable coating solutions that drive growth for your business.

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