Articles tagged with 'Performance Materials' | Covestro Blog

About 400 million tons of plastic are produced every year around the world for goods that are indispensable to daily life, healthcare, mobility, and technology. The downside: growing landfills and #microplastics polluting the oceans. As much as we …

Materials are an important factor when it comes to driving circularity as well as lowering the carbon footprint of products and entire sectors. Steel, glass and concrete are the usual suspects that quickly come to mind when thinking of …

In this blog post, Anne Kutz, project manager for the Sonnenwagen, tells us why Covestro has been supporting the students at RWTH and FH Aachen University as a main sponsor for many years and explains what makes the project so special:

Tomorrow, the K2022 opens its doors. That's when the plastics industry's big festival begins. Covestro will also be there again this year. Our project manager Christopher Stillings has been through all the highs (and a few lows, too) of the …

Unlike the more regional conflicts of the past, the Ukraine war and the increasing tensions between China and the USA are changing the entire socio-political landscape. In economic terms, too. Whether it is the pressure on the energy markets due to …

Three sites in Spain are now running on green electricity. This brings Covestro much closer to climate neutrality. Two other plants in Spain have been running electricity from renewable sources for a long time.

Interview with Pol Blanch, winner of this year´s Design in Plastics Award. Pol Blanch, a student from Brunel University in the UK, has claimed top prize in the 2021 Design Innovation in Plastics (DIP) competition, with a product designed to …

The “iLumen European Solar Challenge” (IESC) is a 24h solar car race, which took place in Belgium last weekend. Several teams of students from all around Europe traveled to “Circuit Zolder” to participate in this challenge. …

Until a few days ago, women's and men's teams from all over the world were fighting for victory in field hockey in Tokyo. For more than 100 years, this discipline has been an integral part of the major sporting events held every four years. Due to …

Plastics have largely negative public image. Critics see plastic as a problem material which needs to be eliminated. Yet these examples show that plastics are indispensable.