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Sustainable living

How to live sustainably without sacrificing your comfort

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Circular Economy

Find inspiration how to materialize a Circular Economy

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Smart design

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Seamless mobility

Mobility is at a crossroads with a greater potential for beneficial change than ever before.

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Sparking Collaboration: Inspiring Innovations in Sustainability, Technology, and Design

The impressions we collect personally and as a company encourage us to continuously develop new ideas ourselves, to help overcome the big challenges of our time and to make life more comfortable and often easier for people.

To create such innovations, we need partners. That’s why we want to inspire others to collaborate and join forces. Let us present you with our most fascinating cases and solutions from the areas of sustainability, technology and design. And hopefully we can spark in you the (great!) idea of reaching out to us.

Sustainable Living

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    Flame-Retardant Polycarbonates for Smart Devices

    Explore how our flame-retardant polycarbonates enhance smart device safety, aesthetics, and sustainability with high performance and low-carbon benefits.

  • Selena´s Tytan Professional® Adhesive for Bricklaying foam emits 60% less CO₂ thanks to Covestro´s Desmodur® CQ MB low-carbon MDI.
    Case study

    Low-carbon adhesive

    Our Desmodur® CQ MB mass balance MDI enabled Selena Group to create a low carbon foam adhesive for bricklaying.

  • Covestro® Makrolon® DQ series in different levels of translucency
    Case study

    Translucent Makrolon® DQ in Steinel® luminaires

    Covestro translucent Makrolon® DQ series enables the luminaire manufacturer Steinel® to create diffusers without hot spots and outstanding energy efficiency.

  • Covestro and Roborock are at the forefront of driving a greener future in the industry with their integrated TPU and PC solutions, delivering increased sustainability.
    Case study

    Solution for robot vacuum design

    Explore sustainability in the intelligent robot industry with materials like Desmopan® CQ TPU & Bayblend® R CQ polycarbonate. 

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    Low carbon PU insulation 

    Our climate neutral   Desmodur® CQ MS enabled Recticel Impact, a PU insulation board range with 43% lower CO2 emissions.

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    Low carbon Desmodur® 

    Certified low carbon Desmodur® CQ MB enabled Selena Group  to create its Ultra Fast 70 low emission one component foam.

Circular Economy

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    Material solutions inside the Covestro Sonnenwagen

    Sonnenwagen, powered by 10+ Covestro materials, conquers 3,000 km of desert heat, dust & sun—showcasing lightweight, durable, more sustainable mobility.

  • CQ engineering plastic solutions for a circular economy
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    CQ portfolio from Covestro – More Sustainable Solutions

    CQ Portfolio from Covestro: R, RE, RP series for sustainability. Reduces waste and CO₂, promotes climate neutrality. Learn more!

  • Auto refinish coatings for Team Sonnenwagen
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    Auto refinish coatings for Team Sonnenwagen

    Explore our collaboration on coating solutions featuring Pasquick® technology for the World Solar Challenge 2025.

  • Driving Tomorrow: Makrolon® RE Meets Solar Racing
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    Makrolon RE Series: Materials for Solar Racing

    Explore the more sustainable engineering materials from Covestro: ✔ Renewable-attributed polycarbonates ✔ ISCC PLUS certified ✔ Reduced carbon footprint

  • Tridonic LED drivers with Makrolon® RE
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    Tridonic LED drivers with Makrolon® RE

    Discover how a leading manufacturer of LED drivers and components for lighting systems uses Makrolon® RE.

  • Sachsenröder tree shelter
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    Biodegradable tree shelters for reforestation

    Explore how Sachsenröder developed biodegradable forestry solutions that support more sustainable reforestation and reduce plastic waste with Covestro materials.

Smart Designs

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    Premium Automotive Materials

    Explore how Covestro materials and technologies enable premium designs for mass market vehicles, delivering affordable luxury and exceptional aesthetics.

  • Smart coatings for premium automotive designs
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    Smart coatings for premium automotive designs

    Learn how smart coatings advances surface technology enabling premium design and lighting features for automotive industry by innovative material solutions.

  • Redefining comfort in VR design
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    Redefining comfort in VR design

    Thermal management for next-gen electronics

  • Haptic innovation meets seamless design
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    Haptic innovation meets seamless design

    Redefining user interfaces with haptic innovation

  • 2.25ml auto-injector by Savicred, featuring Covestro's medical-grade Makrolon® polycarbonates
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    Advanced Medical Materials for Drug Delivery

    Explore biocompatible materials enhancing patient safety in drug and biologics delivery systems, including auto-injectors.

  • TPU surface textures
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    TPU surface design: One material, multiple finishes

    Discover design freedom with Desmopan®: achieve velvety soft-touch or rugged grip in automotive, fashion and electronics applications – no coating needed.

Seamless Mobility

  • Blockchain traceability for plastics in the auto industry
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    Blockchain traceability for plastics in the auto industry

    Covestro worked with Porsche and Circularise, using digital blockchain technology to trace plastics in the value chain.

  • Sonnenwagen Æthon
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    Material solutions inside the Covestro Sonnenwagen

    Sonnenwagen, powered by 10+ Covestro materials, conquers 3,000 km of desert heat, dust & sun—showcasing lightweight, durable, more sustainable mobility.

  • Premium Automotive Materials
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    Premium Automotive Materials

    Explore how Covestro materials and technologies enable premium designs for mass market vehicles, delivering affordable luxury and exceptional aesthetics.

  • Smart coatings for premium automotive designs
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    Smart coatings for premium automotive designs

    Learn how smart coatings advances surface technology enabling premium design and lighting features for automotive industry by innovative material solutions.

  • Driving Tomorrow: Makrolon® RE Meets Solar Racing
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    Makrolon RE Series: Materials for Solar Racing

    Explore the more sustainable engineering materials from Covestro: ✔ Renewable-attributed polycarbonates ✔ ISCC PLUS certified ✔ Reduced carbon footprint

  • In the joint program initiated by German GIZ, the project partners develop value chains for materials recycled from end-of-life automotive headlamps
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    Automotive Plastic Recycling: Driving Circular Economy

    Explore innovative solutions in automotive plastic recycling. Achieve sustainability with PCR plastics & circular economy.

Electrification

  • Sonnenwagen Æthon
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    Material solutions inside the Covestro Sonnenwagen

    Sonnenwagen, powered by 10+ Covestro materials, conquers 3,000 km of desert heat, dust & sun—showcasing lightweight, durable, more sustainable mobility.

  • Driving Tomorrow: Makrolon® RE Meets Solar Racing
    Case study

    Makrolon RE Series: Materials for Solar Racing

    Explore the more sustainable engineering materials from Covestro: ✔ Renewable-attributed polycarbonates ✔ ISCC PLUS certified ✔ Reduced carbon footprint

  • High-Performance Polymers: Apec® XT
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    Apec® XT stays tough when things get rough

    Apec® XT is tough in extreme conditions, with improved impact strength, low-temperature ductility, chemical resistance, and flame retardancy. Ideal for demanding applications.

  • Apec® thermoplastic is designed to beat the heat
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    Apec® thermoplastic is designed to beat the heat

    Heat-resistant thermoplastic for automotive, lighting, and medical technologies

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    Flame-Retardant Polycarbonates for Smart Devices

    Explore how our flame-retardant polycarbonates enhance smart device safety, aesthetics, and sustainability with high performance and low-carbon benefits.

  • EMI Shielding Solutions
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    Reliable inverter solution

    Unlocking our reliable, cost-effective, and lightweight solutions for residential inverters, driving both sustainability and efficiency.

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