1cov founded 1 september 2015 headquarters leverkusen germany website covestro.com covestro is a spinout formed in the fall of 2015 from bayer ; it was formerly bayer s 12.3 billion materials science division . 1 2 covestro shares were first offered on the frankfurt stock exchange in october 2015 . 3 the main industries served are automotive manufacturing and supply electrical engineering and electronics construction and home products and sports and leisure . their products include coatings and adhesives polyurethanes that are used in thermal insulation adhesives electrical housings and as a component of footwear and mattresses and polycarbonates such as covestro s makrolon which are highly impact resistant plastics . 1 covestro polyurethanes were used in the 2014 official fifa world cup soccer ball . 4 see also edit lanxess ag external links edit homepage covestro ag references edit a b christopher alessi for the wall street journal . sept. 1 2015 bayer separates material science business covestro joyce gannon for the pittsburgh post gazette september 1 2015 bayer materialscience assumes its new identity as covestro sheenagh matthews and alex webb for bloomberg news . october 6 2015 covestro jumps on first day of trading in frankfurt after ipo justine coyne for the pittsburgh business times . jun 12 2014 bayer gets ball rolling at world cup retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title covestro & oldid 738112714 categories chemical companies of germanychemical companies navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch svenska edit links this page was last modified on 7 september 2016 at 00 03 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view