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In July 2026, @Dr. Franziska Brantner, Federal Co-Chair of Alliance 90/The Greens, visited Covestro Deutschland AG at its Leverkusen site. Dr. Liv Adler, Bio4PURConti project coordinator presented the company's research on bio-based aniline and introduced the Bio4PURConti project, which started in June 2026.
Covestro has launched Bio4PURConti (Bio-Based Continuous Production for Sustainable Polyurethane Industry), acting as project coordinator of the pioneering EU-funded initiative. The project aims to develop the world’s first continuous production process for bio-based aniline. Aniline is a key raw material for the plastics and chemical industry, notably for MDI (methylene diphenyl diisocyanate), a core building block for polyurethanes.
Bio4PURConti started on 1 June 2026. Over the next 42 months, 10 partners from 7 countries will work on a continuous bio-based process for aniline, a chemical the polyurethane industry relies on and which today comes almost entirely from fossil oil.