Covestro and Fairphone Collaborating on Sustainable Composite Smartphone Instances

Each Covestro and cell phone producer Fairphone have a concentrate on sustainability. The businesses are collaborating on using absolutely and partly recycled thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPUs) within the instances of the newest variations of the Fairphone smartphone, the Fairphone 3 and Fairphone 4. 

The rear machine cowl, center body, and wi-fi charger of the Fairphone 4 all characteristic merchandise from Covestro’s post-consumer recycled (PCR) polycarbonate portfolio, offering the stiffness, affect energy, and flame retardancy required.  

Covestro’s Desmopan® 3095AU RC100 TPU, developed from post-industrial recycled plastics, is used within the protecting case of each the Fairphone 3 and Fairphone 4. The supplies are licensed in line with the worldwide Recycled Declare Commonplace (RCS) for recycled uncooked supplies inside provide chains.