Production

Covestro produces, among other things, precursors for polyurethane foams and the high-performance plastic polycarbonate. We operate a global production network and produce in the EMLA, NA, and APAC regions, in particular for customers within the respective region. We always keep an eye on optimizing the technology used in the plants and processes while focusing on safety, efficiency, and quality in production. With our sustainable technologies and processes, we want to achieve climate neutrality in our own production (Scope 1 emissions) by the year 2035.

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In addition to optimizing existing production processes, Covestro focuses on developing new process technologies, implementing leading technologies in the process design for new production facilities, and taking the production processes of newly developed products to industrial scale. The most important growth projects in 2024 included the new production facility for polycarbonate copolymers at our site in Antwerp (Belgium). The new platform technology developed by Covestro is based on an innovative, solvent-free melt process in combination with a new reactor concept. This makes polycarbonates with adjustable properties accessible, which have been developed and tested on a laboratory and pilot scale in recent years. In addition, the inauguration of the world’s first pilot plant for bio-based aniline in Leverkusen (Germany) contributes to promoting the circular economy. One of the uses of aniline is as a key starting material for insulating foams for buildings and refrigeration appliances. Covestro is moving forward with the implementation of the innovative process for producing the important chemical aniline entirely on the basis of plant biomass instead of petroleum for the first time.

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We invest continuously in our global production network in order to maintain our production sites and their infrastructure, to optimize manufacturing processes, and to expand capacities in line with market developments. To do so, Covestro relies on advanced and environmentally friendly production processes and continuously optimizes the technologies it uses.