Covestro aims to “make the world a brighter place”

18/10/2016
Polymer materials supplier Covestro said in the build-up to the K 2016 plastics trade fair, which runs from October 19-26 in Düsseldorf, that it views as its mission “to make the world a brighter place with innovative and sustainable material solutions”.

Chief executive, Patrick Thomas, said: “We provide answers to some of the biggest challenges facing our world, and develop solutions that benefit both society and the environment. We have, for instance, discovered a way to turn the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into valuable plastic products. This had not been possible until now because the CO2 molecule is very slow to react. We pushed existing boundaries, however, to develop a special catalyst that is key to the synthesis.”