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PREVIEW – K 2025

with digital material twins in early
development phases.

Covestro offi cials emphasised that
its theme of “The Material Eff ect”
will showcase the process of elevating
materials into solutions that matter. “By
fusing premium materials with specia-
lised expertise, we bridge laboratory and
industrial scale development. It is
precisely this unique combination of
material science, process- and application
development that makes the decisive
diff erence,” said Jochen Hardt, K 2025
project lead and Vice President Global
Marketing Mobility in the Engineering
Plastics business entity at Covestro.
“‘The Material Eff ect’ enables our cus-
tomers and partners to achieve more – power purchase agreements (PPAs) the product portfolio: Products with the
in terms of sustainability, circularity, and now covers around 16% of its brand suffi x “CQ” – which stands for
and performance of their products,” he global electricity needs from renewable Circular Intelligence – contain at least
observed. sources. 25% alternative raw materials. For
polycarbonates, Covestro diff erentiates
Commitment to circularity Furthermore, Covestro is consis- its off ering with specifi c labels: “RE”
Covestro’s strategy to become fully tently expanding the use of alternative stands for products based on renewable
circular includes the use of alternative raw materials – with the goal of largely raw materials and produced with renew-
raw materials, switching to green avoiding the use of fossil primary raw able electricity; “RP” identifi es products
energy, and developing advanced recy- materials in the long term. The com- with chemically recycled post-consumer
cling technologies. The company has pany is to that end currently developing waste; and “R” designates products
set a goal to become climate-neutral and testing novel recycling technolo- with mechanically recycled material
in its own operations (Scope 1 and 2) gies for polyurethanes, polycarbonates, content.
by 2035 and to achieve complete cli- and elastomers.
mate neutrality along the entire value Such products and many more will
chain (Scope 1-3) by 2050. To this The commitment to the circular be on display at the Covestro’s booth
end, Covestro has already signed 11 economy is furthermore refl ected in A75 in Hall 6.

Röhm focuses on expanding applications of its

methacrylates portfolio

Röhm, the Germany-based leader “Plexiglas makes your design shine.
in the fi eld of methacrylates chemistry, Every day,” is the theme under which
showcased how its Plexiglas moulding the company will spotlight the inspiring
compounds enable products in many design potential of Plexiglas moulding
areas of daily life. Polymethyl metha- compounds. Numerous examples of
crylate (PMMA) products from Röhm sustainable product design using Plexi-
are sold on the European, Asian, African glas will be on display at the K show.
and Australian continent under the
registered trademarks Plexiglas and “Our high-quality products off er
Pleximid, and in the Americas under a wide range of applications – from
the Acrylite and Acrymid trademarks. paints, coatings, car taillights, medical

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