PU raw material progress from Covestro
Plastics manufacturing group Covestro has announced that it is now able to provide customers with new versions of the two key raw materials for making polyurethane foams. The raw materials in question are toluene diisocyanate (TDI) and methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI).
Covestro said it can now offer TDI with renewable content from biowaste and plant residues and MDI that is “climate-neutral”. This climate-neutrality claim is the result of an internal assessment of product life-cycle data covering raw-material extraction to Covestro’s factory-gate.
“With the introduction of both main components for polyurethanes based on alternative raw materials, we have reached another important milestone on the road to climate neutrality,” said the group’s chief commercial officer, Sucheta Govil.
