Case Study: Covia achieves 500% increase in ideas and $7M projected value with IdeaScale

Covia - Customer Case Study

Covia, Inc., a leading supplier of high‑performance crystalline silica and resin‑coated sand for industries from oil & gas to glass, needed a better way to capture and advance ideas across its global mines, plants and offices. Its prior, department‑based process was manual and slow, making cross‑functional review and alignment with Covia’s Stage Gate® product development approach cumbersome.

The Sustainable Development Business Innovation (SDBI) team implemented IdeaScale, running a pilot, promoting the portal companywide, and organizing submissions into focused campaigns with SME review, scoring and Stage Gate® handoffs. In under a year the platform drove 17% employee participation, a 500% increase in ideas year‑over‑year, and generated estimated impacts of $5M in new revenue and $2M in cost savings from submitted ideas, while improving engagement, knowledge sharing and executive governance.

Covia

Anastasios (Taso) Melisaris

SD Business Innovation Team Lead