Drumroll for a Revolutionary Process: New Plant Taps Into Industrial Use of CO2

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The use of CO₂ helps to cut the demand for crude based feedstock by 20% , explasined company speakers. Thanks to the catalyst and the considerable energy contained in the remaining content of petrochemical raw materials, no additional energy needs to be expended to make the low-reactivity CO₂ react.

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Decisive impulses for the catalyst research and development came from the CAT Catalytic Center, a scientific institution in cooperation with renown technological university RWTH Aaachen. Said Professor Ernst Schmachtenberg, Rector of RWTH Aachen University: “Making efficient use of the carbon dioxide molecule, which is normally slow to react, is a real scientific and technical challenge. We have made a breakthrough by combining application-centric basic research with research-based industrial practices.”

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The new production plant shall help the company to gather experience and establish the process as well as the CO₂ polyurethan foam on the market. Should the demand arise, further plants will be build, Covestro stated. Interested third parties could access this technology via a license agreement, the firm stated.

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“Our customers want more sustainable raw materials, but also the same high product quality they achieved with conventional components,” explained Covestro's project manager Dr. Karsten Malsch. Therefor, the company decided to launch the new brand name Cardyon, under which both products and technology shall be made accessible globally.

“Cardyon is an equal alternative to conventional products. At the same time, customers can set themselves apart from the competition with our product,” Malsch believes. The unique process also took the cake at the Europur, the European association of flexible polyurethane foam blocks manufacturers: At the association's 50th anniversary conference, it selected Covestro as winner of this year's Sustainability Award.

Jean-Pierre de Kesel, chief sustainable innovation officer at Recticel, spoke on behalf of the jury, praising the outstanding contribution made by innovations of this kind to reducing the industry's ecological footprint. The award was presented in cooperation with the trade journal Urethanes Technology International.

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