Bringing solutions for tomorrow into our everyday lives today
Booming cities worldwide are putting a strain on the environment and a drain on the earth’s limited resources. People increasingly seek out better lives in urban areas, so there’s an urgent need to create a new future-proof urban reality that’s based on circular economy principles.
In this circular reality, material loops are closed and innovative products deliver higher performance and increased sustainability while meeting ever tougher industrial hygiene regulations. Digitalization offers new ways to enhance the customer experience, along with new production processes and business models. The City of Sustainnovation concept envisions how this more circular and digital urban future can be achieved.
By 2025, 80% of research and development funds at Covestro will target areas that directly contribute to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Three connected ‘neighborhoods’ give you ways to explore how innovative Covestro coating, adhesive and specialty material solutions support the SDGs. Covestro solutions are used beneath the surface but help meet the sustainability challenge, by working with partners across the value chain.
Connected Neighborhoods
Living the difference
Building a better city
Living the difference
In the City of Sustainnovation, sustainability and quality of life go hand-in-hand. Furniture, packaging, medical devices and footwear help put us at ease. Covestro solutions can play a role in all of these. Beneath the surface they add value when it comes to living more sustainably.
Building a better city
Coatings, adhesives and more sustainable raw materials are important building blocks for the City of Sustainnovation. Covestro, together with value chain partners, has engineered high-performance waterborne coatings and a range of other solutions to help make the construction sector more sustainable.
Streets of tomorrow
Ensuring that people can move around urban areas easily and more sustainably helps to promote growth in the City of Sustainnovation. Covestro works closely with automotive OEMs, tier suppliers and other value chain partners to enable solutions for future-oriented mobility.
Improved Occupational Hygiene
Covestro solutions enable improved working hygiene standards without any compromise on performance to make life easier for customers.
