Nearly 3, employees work for Covestro in Leverkusen in administration, research and production. They ensure safe, environmentally friendly and highly efficient operation with outstanding commitment and broad expertise. New technologies and processes are used in the large production facilities at the site. These help make processes even more efficient. At the same time, Covestro's innovations set new standards for sustainability β even beyond the company's own boundaries.
Since , Covestro has invested around one billion euros in its plants in order to further ensure that Leverkusen remains a successful production site long-term. The German sites account for around 30 percent of global production capacity β a significant proportion of which comes from NRW.
Leverkusen, Dormagen and Krefeld-Uerdingen have formed a site network since They are all located within 70 kilometers of one another and organize maintenance, infrastructure, logistics, warehousing and services. This results in more streamlined processes, more efficient production and better cost-competitiveness. As a result, the company can supply its customers with large product volumes made from renewable attributed raw materials. The selected polycarbonates, components for polyurethane PU coatings and adhesive raw materials are characterized by equally good quality and properties as their fossil-based counterparts.
Thanks to the ISCC Plus mass balance certification, Covestro is once again one step closer to its ambitious goals: to become operationally climate-neutral by and achieve net-zero emissions from its own production Scope 1 and from purchased energy Scope 2. Upstream and downstream greenhouse gas emissions in the value chain Scope 3 are also to be significantly reduced by β in the long term, Covestro aims to achieve climate neutrality for Scope 3 emissions by Leverkusen is also home to research laboratories and an upscaling plant.
Everything started with one outstanding innovation. In , chemist Otto Bayer discovered the plastic polyurethane in Leverkusen, a material that is now essential in many everyday applications.
