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How to live sustainably without sacrificing your comfort

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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.

Our 5 areas of inspiration

Discover our newest solutions and cases

Sustainable Living

  • 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.

  • Case study

    Solution for robot vacuum design

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

  • Case study

    Low carbon PU insulation 

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

  • Story

    Sustainability

    Learn how Covestro works to make its powder-coating resins and crosslinkers more sustainable and circular

  • Story

    More sustainable PU foam

    Mass balance and sustainable raw materials are key to achieving climate goals and the transition to a circular economy.

  • Story

    Embodied carbon reduction I Building the next stage of sustainability

    Reduce embodied carbon in the life cycle of buildings with PU/PIR insulation materials. Learn more now!

Circular Economy

  • Story

    Path from more sustainable materials to low carbon buildings

    Explore how AI, collaboration, and circular practices can reduce embodied carbon in construction for a more sustainable future.

  • Case study

    Circular CMF Guide for integrating circularity into aesthetic design

    Explore circular CMF design solutions with actionable insights and best practices on color, material and finish design for recycled and recyclable plastics.

  • Case study

    More sustainable materials for a circular economy

    Discover how sustainable materials are driving the circular economy forward. Download our white paper by Covestro and GC Insights for innovative solutions.

  • Case study

    Jabra Headset Enabled by Recycled Plastic 

    Explore Jabra Evolve2 series headsets, featuring post-consumer recycled polycarbonate material from Covestro with a recycled content of 75%, delivering high performance, sustainability, and design.

  • Story

    Partly bio-based isocyanate hardeners for industrial coatings

    Discover Covestro’s partly bio-based isocyanates for the industrial coatings market. Create industrial coatings that support your carbon-footprint targets.

  • Story

    Decovery® CQ 2110: Low-VOC flooring resin

    Discover flooring resin materials with Decovery® CQ 2110: A 36% bio-based binder designed to enable low-VOC wood flooring solutions. Learn more about it!

Smart Designs

  • Case study

    Circular CMF Guide for integrating circularity into aesthetic design

    Explore circular CMF design solutions with actionable insights and best practices on color, material and finish design for recycled and recyclable plastics.

  • Case study

    CMF Design Trends 2025+

    Discover innovative polycarbonate solutions & aesthetic toolkits for industrial designers & CMF experts.

  • Case study

    Roof Sensor Module

    Roof Sensor module for seamless sensor integration for self-driving cars

  • Case study

    Solution for robot vacuum design

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

  • Case study

    Light Design in Car Interiors: VW Tiguan's Innovative Approach

    Explore VW Tiguan's new light design with Covestro's Makrolon® Ai Polycarbonate, reshaping automotive interior aesthetics and functionality.

  • Case study

    Next-gen black panel displays

    With sophisticated films, we offer our customers advanced light management applications for next-gen instrument clusters.

Seamless Mobility

  • Story

    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.

  • Case study

    Touch function on metal

    Makrofol® films and Makrolon® PC resins enable electroplated plastic parts with metal surfaces to have touch functionality. 

  • Case study

    High-tech films in security

    With innovative films, we offer our customers state-of-the-art security glazing for a wide range of applications.

  • Case study

    Light Design in Car Interiors: VW Tiguan's Innovative Approach

    Explore VW Tiguan's new light design with Covestro's Makrolon® Ai Polycarbonate, reshaping automotive interior aesthetics and functionality.

  • Story

    More sustainable PU foams

    Learn how more sustainable feedstocks in PU foams can reduce the automotive industry carbon footprint and how we aim for full PU recycling.

  • Case study

    Next-gen black panel displays

    With sophisticated films, we offer our customers advanced light management applications for next-gen instrument clusters.

Electrification

  • Case study

    More Sustainable polycarbonates for Vimar

    Makrolon® RE for Vimar’s design series of switches and sockets for a reduced carbon footprint

  • Case study

    New EV wallbox design demonstrator

    Having an electric vehicle means charging it regularly. Discover Covestro’s more sustainable new wallbox charger design.

  • Story

    Designing polycarbonate Chargers for future charging solutions

    Covestro supports collaborations with partners, customers and start-ups from creative designs to efficient product development.

  • Case study

    Customized printed electronics | Covestro

    Our Colibri demonstrator with printed electronics and smart surface technology gives you design flexibility.

  • Story

    Future-forward frontend gives designers multiple options

    Covestro works with auto designers who want to unleash their creativity with proven materials, technologies and expertise

  • Story

    Empowering the electrification ecosystem at K 2022

    Covestro polycarbonates enable the electrification of mobility, starting at the EV heart: the electric battery pack.

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