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Innovating for a Sustainable Future
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Innovating for a Sustainable Future

At Covestro, chemical expertise meets artificial intelligence. Together with our partners, we advance sustainability through innovation beyond materials.

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Synthetic coated textile material
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Antimicrobial coated textiles: INSQIN® & AGXX

INSQIN® from Covestro and AGXX from Heraeus help textile manufacturers create safer, more sustainable antibacterial coatings for polyurethane applications.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Innovations within Architectural & construction
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A&C Innovation

Learn how Covestro continuously innovates to meet the evolving needs of architectural and construction industries.

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Innovating for a Sustainable Future

At Covestro, chemical expertise meets artificial intelligence. Together with our partners, we advance sustainability through innovation beyond materials.

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Antimicrobial coated textiles: INSQIN® & AGXX

INSQIN® from Covestro and AGXX from Heraeus help textile manufacturers create safer, more sustainable antibacterial coatings for polyurethane applications.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A&C Innovation

Learn how Covestro continuously innovates to meet the evolving needs of architectural and construction industries.

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    Powder coating

    Discover the benefits of powder coating – from efficiency to improved sustainability – and Covestro’s powder-coating resins.

  • Fast-curing Pasquick® technology offers high-level corrosion protection with one coat less.
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    Pasquick®

    Our polyaspartic coating technology cures up to eight times faster than other systems and offers easy application for professional users with standard spraying equipment.

  • Our raw materials for waterborne coatings combine performance and sustainability.
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    Waterborne coatings & paint

    Our waterborne raw materials meet the growing demand for high-performing, environmentally sustainable coating solutions

  • We offer a unique portfolio of ready-to-use ingredients for customized solventborne coatings.
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    Solventborne coatings & paints

    Solventborne polyurethane coating systems provide finishes across a broad array of industrial applications

  • High solids and solvent-free coatings offer the same strong performance plus greater sustainability.
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    High solids & nonsolvent systems

    Our high solids and nonsolvent systems comply with strict low-VOC requirements in Europe and other regions

  • More sustainable energy-curing systems use split-second polymerization to boost coating efficiency.
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    Energy-curable technologies

    Energy-curable materials enable more efficient, more sustainable processing in numerous applications

Latest Case Studies

  • Synthetic coated textile material
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    Antimicrobial coated textiles: INSQIN® & AGXX

    INSQIN® from Covestro and AGXX from Heraeus help textile manufacturers create safer, more sustainable antibacterial coatings for polyurethane applications.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Innovative automotive interior lighting
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    Innovative automotive interior lighting

    Covestro & H.B. Fuller co-create customizable automotive interior lighting for the EDAG CityBot—an autonomous vehicle redefining the future of urban travel.

  • New designs for Team Sonnenwagen Aachen
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    More sustainable sportswear: Team Sonnenwagen 2025

    Discover how we and Huafeng equip Team Sonnenwagen Aachen with high-quality sportswear made from partly recycled and partly biobased coated textile materials.

  • Seamless charging stations with Arfinio
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    Seamless, more sustainable charging stations with Arfinio®

    VEGA Chargers used Arfinio® monomaterial solid-surface technology to create the more recyclable, repairable, intricate ALOHA Gravity wall-mounted EV charging station.

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    Desmodur® CQ ultra N 7500

    Meet Desmodur® CQ ultra N 7500: a low-viscosity, self-leveling 68-70% bio-based hardener built for floor-coating applications

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    Bayhydur® quix ultra coating solutions for kitchen cabinets

    Thanks to Bayhydur® quix ultra, Sirca and Finver found a low VOC, water-based and fast-drying solution for high quality, durable kitchen cabinets 

  • Leap by Beyond Leather Insqin
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    Leather alternative made with apple waste

    Beyond Leather uses apple waste to make LEAP®, a 100% animal-free leather alternative with added durability from Covestro’s INSQIN® technology.

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    Protective lagoon coating

    Learn how aliphatic polyurea elastomeric technology helped Delta Coatings protect one of Dubai’s largest man-made lagoons.

  • Trans-Textil – AQUAIR®
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    Waterborne & vegan: More sustainable synthetic textile coatings

    Explore how we pioneered a vegan waterborne synthetic coating system with Trans-Textil, to contribute to a more sustainable future for the textile industry.

  • Case study

    More sustainable textile printing with Covestro & KRONOS

    Covestro & KRONOS: More sustainable textile production with digital inkjet printing. Find out more about their white ink innovation for direct-to-foil printing!

  • More sustainable sports shoes
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    More sustainable textiles for Team Sonnenwagen

    Explore how Covestro, Huafeng, and Cyclone support Team Sonnenwagen with partly bio-based and recycled textile materials for more sustainable sportswear.

  • Arfinio showerplate
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    Arfinio®-based shower plates

    Arfinio® enables non-slip, repairable, recyclable bathroom furniture without the design constraints of traditional solid-surface materials.

  • Arfinio chair rendering
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    Arfinio®-based furniture 

    Arfinio® helps designers create truly seamless furniture without the design constraints of traditional solid-surface materials

  • Arfinio wash basin
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    Solid-surface Arfinio® technology expands washbasin design

    To help washbasin manufacturer Alt_Bath meet multiple demands, Covestro and Arcesso developed a reaction-injection-molding solution using aliphatic polyurethanes. Previously thought impossible, this breakthrough has helped Alt_Bath create lighter, more durable, repairable washbasins with more design freedom.

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    INSQIN® and HAPTIC®

    Partly bio-based INSQIN® PU is an ink binder in HAPTIC® printing on recycled mesh in sports shoes, cutting the CO₂ footprint.

  • Back cover of INSQIN® MOLESKINE® booklet.
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    Moleskine® INSQIN® coating

    INSQIN® partly bio-based PU technology coatings make Moleskine® covers more sustainable.

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    Matt soft-touch coating waterborne raw material solution for smart mirror

    Covestro and AkzoNobel work together to apply a waterborne matt soft-touch coating solution to the MINE smart mirror rear cover

  • Large-CAS Bayhydur quix
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    Low VOC water-based coatings with reduced carbon footprint

    Bayhydur® quix ultra hardener enabled Hesse to develop a high performance, fast curing, low VOC water-based coating with up to 60% less CO₂ emissions than standard solvent-based coatings.

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    A Desmodur® ultra success story:

    How ultra line crosslinkers enabled the automotive refinish coatings industry to be prepared for the future

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    Sonnenwagen project

    Desmodur® CQ makes bio-based clearcoat competitive

  • The swing bridge in Hamburg demonstrates the capacity of Pasquick® in corrosion protection.
    Case Study

    Sherwin-Williams

    Pasquick® provides highly protective and cost-effective bridge coatings

  • 2K waterborne PU coatings using Bayhydur®/Bayhydrol supply lasting color and protection to facades.
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    Dormagen warehouse

    2K waterborne PU coatings bring protection and long-lasting brilliance to facades

  • Waterborne PU floor coating paves the way for attractive, sustainable future at the EIC.
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    Energy Innovation Center

    2K waterborne PU coating protects and enhances concrete floors at the EIC

  • Successful partly bio-based coating includes renewable hardener Desmodur®  CQ N 7300.
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    Lankwitzer coating

    Sustainable locomotive coating made with partly bio-based Desmodur® eco N hardener

  • Pasquick® provided a fast-drying coating system for the Covestro Elastomers Technical Center.
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    Krypton Chemical

    Pasquick® speeds up technical center floor refurbishment

  • Pasquick® gave Alucrom a faster-drying low-VOC coating solution to speed up production.
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    Wind energy towers

    Fast-curing Pasquick® enables more efficient wind tower production

  • Waterborne coated card holders demonstrate the high  performance of PU dispersions  based on Bayhydrol® U/UH.
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    Continental Xpreshn®

    Bayhydrol® creates decorative films for premium, low-VOC vehicle interiors

  • Desmodur® N is the crosslinker  BASF Coatings Division uses in  sustainable automotive coatings.
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    BASF R-M

    Desmodur® N 3900 hardener for sustainable e-mobility coating

  • 111 kilometers pipeline were coated with a fast-curing 2K PU coating based on Desmodur® and Desmophen®.
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    Dhakira pipeline

    Fast-curing 2K polyurethane enables efficient pipeline coating

Latest Stories

  • Innovating for a Sustainable Future
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    Innovating for a Sustainable Future

    At Covestro, chemical expertise meets artificial intelligence. Together with our partners, we advance sustainability through innovation beyond materials.

  • 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.

  • Innovations within Architectural & construction
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    A&C Innovation

    Learn how Covestro continuously innovates to meet the evolving needs of architectural and construction industries.

  • Biodegradability & beyond
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    Biodegradability & beyond

    Learn more about the EU Microplastics Regulation and Amulix® biodegradability profile.

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    High-performance automotive refinish coatings

    Discover innovative refinish coating solutions for automotive applications: Pasquick®, Desmodur® ultra N, and Dockit®.

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    DirectCoating Technology for the Automotive Industry

    Discover the Direct Coating technology of Covestro, integrating efficiency and quality in surface finishing to meet diverse industry needs

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    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.

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    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!

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    High performance waterborne resins for the wood and building industrial coatings

    High performance waterborne resins industrial coating applications wood furniture cabinetry building products

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    Premium UV-Curing Resins for Flooring

    Discover our high-performance UV-curing resins for floor coatings. Ideal for manufacturers. Explore your options today!

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    UV-curing resins | P&P

    Discover how to create cost-effective, low-migration inks and coatings for printing and packaging using UV-curable resins.

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    NeoAdd® PAX crosslinking solutions

    NeoAdd® PAX, the food-contact-compliant polymeric aziridine crosslinker. All the performance, half the labeling.

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    UV resins that are mostly bio-based 

    UV coatings with sustainable materials: Learn how to create ultraviolet coatings with up-to-83%-bio-based resins. 

  • Mass balance, recycled compounds and ISCC certification for sustainability and a circular economy
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    Polyisocyanate crosslinker portfolio from Covestro

    More sustainable IPDI product line with reduced carbon footprint, enabled via a mass-balance approach.

  • Story

    Effective wall primers

    Consumers and painters increasingly look for paints with broad stain or smell isolation. Covestro has the solution!

  • Story

    Crelan® crosslinkers

    Learn how our Crelan® isocyanate crosslinkers enable attractive finishes for polyurethane powder-coating applications

  • Story

    LCA & innovation

    Learn how Covestro carries out lifecycle assessments (LCAs) for its powder-coating resins and crosslinkers.

  • Story

    HSS: Technology

    Discover how to powder-coat wood, MDF, and other heat-sensitive substrates.

  • Story

    HSS: Features

    Discover the excellent aesthetic, protective, and durable features of powder coatings for heat-sensitive substrates.

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    Sustainability

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

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    Covestro Coatings for Fiber Optics  

    high performance fiber optic coatings for the world’s telecommunications market.

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    Heat-sensitive substrates

    Learn how innovative technologies are making it possible to powder-coat heat-sensitive substrates like wood and MDF.

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    Uralac® polyesters

    Discover how our Uralac® polyester powder-coating resins enable high-performance coatings for indoor and outdoor applications.

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    About Uralac® polyesters

    Discover more about how our Uralac® polyesters bring benefits to design freedom, durability, and efficiency.

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    HSS: Markets 

    Discover the possibilities for powder coating heat-sensitive substrates – from high-end cabinets to mass-produced chairs.

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    HSS: Benefits

    Discover the benefits of power coating MDF, engineered wood, and other heat-sensitive substrates.

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    Extend Wind Turbine Blade Durability with Leading Edge Protection

    Protecting the leading edge of wind turbine blades is vital to their longevity. Covestro offers advanced Leading Edge Protection (LEP) technologies for customized solutions

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    Status Next: The Circular Economy in Construction & Architectural

    In the Architectural & Construction sector, embracing circularity is key across diverse industries and markets. We're committed to offering varied solutions tailored to our A&C customers, empowering them to advance circular economy practices.

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    Recycle food packaging

    The new polyethylene (PE) and aluminum replacement for recyclable paper food packaging.

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    More sustainable textiles 

    We supply the textiles industry with more sustainable textile coatings materials for a carbon-neutral fabric future!

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    Uradil® FP-9300

    Uradil® FP-9300: recyclability, heat sealability, and alcohol resistance for BOPP flexible packaging

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    Lab-testing resins

    Covestro extensively tested its architectural resins to demonstrate their reliability and high-performance properties

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    Heat-resistant coating

    Heat-resistant-coating- for mono PE stand-up pouches with BOPE (biaxially oriented polyethylene) mono material film paves the way for high speed packaging and design for recyclability. 

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    Design & architecture

    Whether you’re designing furniture, interiors or buildings, you need strong foundations.

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    Insights to innovations

    Covestro uses big data, search behaviors and stakeholder research to provide the market insights to grow your business.

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    Neocryl HP-4000

    Covestro’s new NeoCryl® HP-4000 resin enables healthier, moisture-resistant, long-lasting wall paint finishes for different substrates. 

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    Digital printing

    To drive the future of printing & packaging, we offer a comprehensive range of digital printing solutions.

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    Monomaterials

    We have developed a range of monomaterial coating resin solutions to enable recyclable packaging.

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    Skins®: overprint varnishes that add funky tactile effects to all kinds of packaging

    Skins® by Covestro give your branding ideas character.

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    Skins® Rubbert

    Skins® Rubbert by Covestro gives a whole new twist to print or packaging. Try Skins® for your brand. 

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    Future of community

    We believe in a future of community that will connect all people

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    Finima

    Finima chose Covestro's Uralac® Ultra-based powder coatings to offer more sustainable furniture with superb surface appearance.

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    About 

    Covestro's Uralac® Ultra, proven powder coating technology for MDF and wood, ideal for industrial & commercial coating applications. 

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    The powder of possibilities

    Discover why Kempa, manufacturer and coater of high-end kitchen furniture, chose Uralac® Ultra-based powder coatings.

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    Driving forward with powder coatings

    Discover how Covestro's Uralac® Ultra powder-coating technology has allowed Vepa to unlock extra value in the furniture industry.

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    Frequently asked questions

    Frequently asked questions (FAQs) about Covestro's Uralac® Ultra binding technology.

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    Services

    Covestro's powder-coating technology has an expert application & tech team behind it who support you with a wide range of services. 

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    Fabulous furniture finishes for the home

    Uralac® Ultra by Covestro enables fabulous finishes for interior furniture made from powder-coated MDF.

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    Products

    Covestro's Uralac® Ultra powder-coating technology for MDF is suitable for many products and applications. 

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Advancing surface solutions

When it comes to coatings, formulators are looking for innovative products that enhance performance, durability, aesthetics and sustainability. We combine extensive know-how with a broad portfolio of hardeners, resins, dispersions and binders to meet your industry’s requirements.

Which coating solution is best for my application?

At Covestro, we offer a diverse range of products – from waterborne dispersions and 70% bio-based crosslinkers to our Blulogic® hardener or Pasquick® coatings technology. Our coating solutions can not only improve surface properties such as appearance, but also enhance resistance to corrosion and scratching, for instance. At the same time, our products meet the growing need for enhanced product safety and -sustainability along the full product lifecycle, helping you adhere to regulatory standards pertaining ISO norms and/or CO2 thresholds. 
 
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Because coatings encompass so many different applications, we are keenly focused 
on the individual needs of each industry. This means regardless of which materials your coatings must adhere to or which types of stress they must withstand, our experts cooperate with you to help select the product that best fits your needs. 

Innovative materials for every industry

Our research and development process relies on a clear understanding of the current challenges faced by coatings manufacturers in industries across the board. Our comprehensive portfolio of raw materials  offers formulations used for everything from coatings for the automotive industry to coatings used in building and industrial applications. 

What are Covestro coating solutions used for?

Raw materials for automotive coatings  
We have the product range, industry knowledge and technical expertise to help you enhance the quality, appearance, durability and sustainability (i.e. improve the environmental compatibility of products along the lifecycle compared to standard production processes) for interior and exterior coatings in the automotive industry – from cars and trucks to trains and planes. Our portfolio includes a full range of specialized hardeners, resins and additives for enhanced coating performance.   
 

Raw materials for coatings in the building sector
We provide a range of products for the building industry – both for interior and exterior applications. Our portfolio includes solutions for solvent-based and water-based systems, offering you formulation flexibility. 
 
 
Raw materials for industrial coatings   
When it comes to industrial coatings, protection and durability are key. At Covestro, we provide a broad portfolio of resins, hardeners and binders for many areas of industrial coatings. For example, our products have been used in coatings for furniture, wind turbines, pipelines, agricultural equipment and more. 

Developing next-generation surface protection

Climate change, digitalization, future mobility: The future challenges facing the coatings industry are what motivate us to push boundaries to create better solutions for our clients. By relying on cross-functional teams of experts as well as close customer collaboration, we actively foster innovation to develop new surface solutions. Moving into the future, we aim to create coating products that drive the circular economy forward by reducing CO2 emissions and replacing finite resources with more sustainable alternatives. 

 
Learn more about our #FullyCircular vision.
 
Progress that counts    
 
How are coatings made more sustainably? 
Our binders for coatings have the potential to modify your products in significant ways – making them more environmentally compatible compared to standard solutions and setting them apart from the competition. We support customers with a broad range of more sustainable coatings solutions and services, including the development of products around trending coatings industry criteria such as low-VOC formulations and percentage of renewable materials. 
 
What is the coating industry’s future? 
At Covestro, we collaborate with our customers to develop forward-looking solutions. Whether it’s through imagining and creating solutions for future mobility or producing products that deliver significant time and cost savings, we work together to solve the challenges of our time. In the future, new technologies are expected to expand. With these trends in mind, we are working to help our customers improve their coating products, one formulation at a time. 

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