Covestro and its partners have developed a high-performance thermoplastic (HPT) that could be used in many industries in the future. This would significantly increase the sustainability and performance of products in areas such as aviation, automotive and health. The challenge now is to enable the continuous production of the new plastic on a large scale. This is the goal of a research project coordinated by Covestro and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

HPT is a high-performance plastic that can be processed by injection molding and uniquely combines numerous good properties. It is stable with high hardness and is also resistant to heat and many solvents. Test batches of the new material are already being produced.

In the current BMBF research project “DreamCompoundConti”, a continuous process will now be developed to enable environmentally compatible and economical production on an industrial scale. Covestro is working on this together with RWTH Aachen University, the Technical University Berlin, the Leipzig Plastics Center and the aircraft manufacturer Airbus as an associated partner. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research is funding the project with up to 1.5 million euros over the next three years – in the supporting program “Research for Sustainability (FONA³)” in the measure entitled “r+Impuls – Impulse für industrielle Ressourceneffizienz” (funding code 033R199).

“With this new joint project, we are underlining our efforts to produce particularly high-performance plastics in a climate-friendly and simultaneously economically efficient process,” says Dr. Markus Steilemann, CEO of Covestro.