{"id":38054,"date":"2016-10-13T07:01:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T05:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=38054"},"modified":"2021-09-09T21:40:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T19:40:18","slug":"chemical-industry-council-honors-covestro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/chemical-industry-council-honors-covestro\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemical Industry Council honors Covestro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials manufacturer Covestro has been recognized by the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) for its successful use of CO<sub>2<\/sub> in plastics production. In Florence, Italy, on Friday, the company received CEFIC\u2019s Responsible Care Award in the Environment category. Covestro has recently started using carbon dioxide to produce a key component for making high-grade polyurethane foam thanks to an innovative process that saves on the petroleum-based raw material traditionally used.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re proud and honored to receive this important recognition from CEFIC,\u201d said Covestro\u2019s Chief Innovation Officer Dr. Markus Steilemann. \u201cIt shows we\u2019re on the right track using CO<sub>2<\/sub> as an alternative raw material and playing a pioneering role in this future-focused development. We\u2019re aiming to make a contribution to resource conservation and sustainability by producing as many types of plastic as possible using carbon dioxide,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<h3>Pioneering scientific achievement<\/h3>\n<p>CO<sub>2<\/sub> is extremely inert, so harnessing it represents a scientific breakthrough in the chemical industry. Thanks to the right catalyst and process technology, Covestro is now able to produce a new precursor for polyurethane foam with 20 percent CO<sub>2<\/sub>. An initial production facility opened this year at the company\u2019s Dormagen site in Germany. If all goes according to plan, the new material will soon reach end customers in the form of mattresses and upholstery.<\/p>\n<p>The carbon dioxide replaces petroleum and its derivatives, on which the chemical industry is otherwise almost entirely based. This broadens the industry\u2019s raw material base while also dispensing with petroleum processing and thus both saving energy and cutting emissions.<\/p>\n<p>CEFIC recognized this achievement with the award it has been presenting annually since 2004. It is named after the Responsible Care initiative embraced by chemical companies and associations the world over who acknowledge their joint environmental and social responsibility and give high priority to sustainability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials manufacturer Covestro has been recognized by the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) for its successful use of CO2 in plastics production. In Florence, Italy, on Friday, the company received CEFIC\u2019s Responsible Care Award in the Environment category. Covestro has recently started using carbon dioxide to produce a key component for making high-grade polyurethane foam [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572,5571],"tags":[12463,10743],"supplier":[10858,4027],"class_list":["post-38054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","category-co2-based","tag-ccu2016","tag-useco2","supplier-covestro-group","supplier-european-chemical-industry-council-cefic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38054"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=38054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}