Covestro successfully used carbon dioxide as a carbon source in plastic production. Covestro won the Responsible Care Award of the European Chemical Industry Council for its technology.
Covestro's new formulation produces plastic, at least 20% of which is carbon dioxide, which has been used in the company's Cardyon brand flexible foam polyols, but the carbon dioxide-ethylene oxide formulation "can also be used to produce additives, and has also developed a A catalytic process that makes carbon dioxide and propylene oxide react.