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The household of tomorrow: Polycarbonate powers future-forward home products

Picture yourself in the year 2024. A lot of things will change between now and then, including the technology inside your home and the products you use every day. We’re exploring how household devices and appliances design will evolve and how polycarbonate can power these future innovations.
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Integrating intuitive IoT

Our intuitive IoT control device features personalized access control for a tangible user experience. When designing this prototype, we chose Makrolon® polycarbonate for connectivity and tangibility. This material offers good IR transmittance for user recognition and enables precise patterns and a one-shell design. It also helps create a matt screen surface for less reflection and glare. A high-gloss black-panel effect version is also available for the screen display.

Additionally, our Makrolon® PC-IM-FR is a great choice for creating chargeable devices with high energy efficiency thanks to its excellent impact resistance and thin-wall flame-retardant properties.

We’re exploring how home product design will change over the next five years so that we speak the same design language as our customers, offer material solutions that fit into future trends, identify gaps and develop material solutions for future needs.

Andreas Brandt

vice president of marketing for electronics, electrical and appliances – Polycarbonates, Covestro.

Cleaning and transporting with an AI-embedded robot

Cleaning can be tedious and time-consuming, but we’re helping make it easier with an AI-embedded cleaning robot called Cargo Bot. This device features extra transportation functions so that it can connect to a smart community and logistics. 

Our flame-retardant and IR transmitting Makrolon® polycarbonate brings robustness and strength while offering excellent impact resistance. The IR window designed in high-gloss, piano black can stably deliver high IR transmission and, at the same time, conceal complex inner structures underneath. Additionally, flame-retardant and lightweight Bayblend® PC+ABS blend delivers impact-resistance, safety and versatility. This material can be UV-stabilized for better color retention.

Focusing on the task at hand

Working doesn’t always take place in the office. Our modular work zone system seamlessly blends into your home interior design for a connected work-from-home or co-work experience.

Our Makrolon® polycarbonate offers great light diffusion for softer and smoother lighting. Precision and safety are possible with our Makrolon® PC-IM-FR, which also features high dimensional stability, excellent impact resistance and flame retardance. Lastly, we turned to flame-retardant Bayblend® PC+ABS blend for function integration and modern aesthetics. Ease-of-use is important, and this lightweight material ensures our modular work zone is portable, for high user flexibility.

  • Makrolon® polycarbonate is robust, heat-resistant and flame-retardant as a tough, yet lightweight material.
  • Makrolon® polycarbonate features transparency for glass-like optical quality and great light diffusion performance.
  • Bayblend® creates flame-retardant and design-friendly products.
  • Makroblend® creates touchable aesthetics and features good chemical resistance.
  • Desmopan® enables soft haptics and good abrasion resistance.

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