Covestro Launches a New Production Line for Desmodur® 15 Prepolymers
Covestro started production of Desmodur® 15 prepolymers in Barcelona, Spain. The company is meeting the growing demand for high performance elastomers with its new production line. At the same time, it serves a wider range of very demanding applications with this production line.
“With this strategic investment,
Covestro aims to further enlarge the capacity and improve the reliability of its global supply of Desmodur® 15 based products,” says Philip Bahke, Head of Operations at Covestro Elastomers. “On top of addressing our customers’ demand, Covestro’s Barcelona site has been operating entirely on renewable energy since the beginning of 2022,” says Sucheta Govil, Chief Commercial Officer at Covestro and
“This approach is part of our ambition to reduce our environmental impact while offering our customers greater access to our solutions and specialties products.” added his statements.
“We are opening the new production unit for our Desmodur® 15 prepolymers in Barcelona in parallel to the ongoing expansion of our NDI capacities in the Asia-Pacific region with the Map Ta Phut plant in Thailand,” says Thomas Braig, Head of Covestro Elastomers and “This new production unit will help us to support our customers’ growth in the cast polyurethanes highend applications segment.” used in his phrases.
Combining the highest mechanical characteristics with dynamic load-bearing capacity, elastomers based on Desmodur® 15 prepolymers are not only one of the most powerful cast polyurethanes in the market, they are also as easy to process as conventional prepolymers.
