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As a polycarbonate market leader with more than 70 years’ experience, Covestro is committed to the future success of its customers through our market leading products and on-going support. 

Covestro offers a wide range of high-performance polycarbonate resins and polycarbonate blends with outstanding properties – along with dedicated CAE support to help you simulate and achieve numerous different surface effects, textures and colors.

With a focus on sustainability, the Covestro portfolio also include offerings with a lower carbon footprint thanks to the use of renewable electricity for their manufacture, as well as raw materials produced from mass-balanced bio-waste and residues.

Featured Materials

Makrolon® &

Makrolon® RE CQ

Polycarbonate

  • Robust
  • Lightweight
  • Glass-like transparency
  • Impact resistant
  • High dimensional stability
  • Easily molded
  • Heat resistant 
  • Available in low carbon footprint RE grades

Bayblend® &

Bayblend® RE CQ 

PC+ABS Blend

  • Toughness
  • Rigidity
  • Dimensional stability
  • Creep resistance
  • Low moisture absorption
  • Heat resistant
  • High flame retardancy
  • Available in low carbon footprint RE grades
 
Covestro’s RE grades offer a lower carbon footprint thanks to the use of renewable electricity, as well as raw materials from mass-balanced bio-waste and residues. RE resin are identical to conventional, offering a drop-in solution to meet your sustainability goals

 

Featured Industries and Applications

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Covestro serves a range of applications in the automotive industry including interior and exterior elements, lighting, seating and electric vehicle battery (EVB) packaging, using dedicated raw materials for coatings and adhesives, thermoplastics, foams, films, composites and more.

For healthcare applications such as medication delivery, surgical instruments, electromedical equipment and wound care, Covestro offers dedicated thermoplastics, films, TPU, raw materials for adhesives, foams, and more.
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At Covestro, as our ‘We will be fully circular’ vision outlines, we believe enabling the transition to circularity is a key part of our environmental and social responsibility. By offering alternative raw materials, innovative chemical recycling technologies, renewable energy in production and joint innovation, we aim to help the whole value chain become more circular.

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OEM, Tier Supplier or Molder - at any point in the automotive process, we have resources and capabilities available to help you from design realization to mass production.

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As new healthcare innovations enter the market, our 30+ years of material expertise and regulatory experience can help get your medical device to market safely and efficiently.

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Formerra can help you achieve your sustainability goals, such as lowering carbon emissions, reducing waste, combatting the plastic waste problem, increasing the use of renewable resources, and more.

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Covestro-Makrolon

Makrolon® Product Range Brochure

A thermoplastic with truly diverse applications, Makrolon® is used in medical devices, automotive headlamps, sporting equipment, electronics, eyewear, architectural glazing LED lighting, and numerous other products.

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Covestro-Bayblend

Bayblend® Product Range Brochure

Bayblend® portfolio offers you the ideal properties for appliances, automotive and transportation, electrical, consumer products, medical, electronics, IT and communication applications.

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Covestro-Makroblend

Makroblend® Product Range Brochure

Makroblend® is an engineering plastic that combines the outstanding properties of polycarbonate (PC) and polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) or polyethylene terephthalate (PET). 

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Materials

Apec®

Apec® High-Heat Polycarbonate —
This material is characterized by its high transparency, toughness and strength with a higher heat resistance compared to Makrolon®. It is suitable for limited reuse after highheat steam autoclaving up to 143°C.

 

 

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Bayblend® 

Bayblend® variants exhibit an excellent balance of properties, most notably high toughness – even at cold temperatures – as well as rigidity, dimensional stability, excellent creep resistance, low moisture absorption, heat resistance and high flame retardancy.

 

 

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Desmopan® 

 Thermoplastic polyurethane Desmopan® offers high wear resistance, flexibility across a wide range of temperatures, and high elasticity over the entire hardness range. It also possesses excellent resistance to oils, greases and solvents as well as good resistance to weathering and high-energy radiation. In addition the Desmopan® CQ range also offers a reduced carbon footprint without compromising on quality or performance.
 

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Makroblend®

Makroblend® resins have a property profile that includes high toughness (even at low temperatures); good chemical resistance to many lubricants, solvents and cleaning agents; reduced susceptibility to stress cracking; great paintability and low moisture uptake. 
 

 

 

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Makrolon® 

Makrolon® polycarbonate is extremely robust, lightweight with glass-like transparency and is impact resistant – even at low temperatures. It also has a high dimensional stability and is easily molded, yet displays excellent heat resistance with a glass transition temperature of up to 148ºC.

 

 

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Texin® 

Texin® thermoplastic polyurethanes are available in grades that go from very soft and flexible to very rigid. Many grades of Texin® TPU comply with FDA food-contact regulations and several meet the biocompatibility requirements of FDA-modified ISO 10993-1 tests.

 

 

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Customer Service & General Inquiries:
  • Phone: 1.888.502.0951
  • Email: inquiries@formerra.com
Technical Support Hotline:
  • Phone: 1.866.765.9824
  • Email: phd@formerra.com