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Semiconductors

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🏭 Demanding eco-toothbrushes

Jul 27, 2022

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🏭 Demanding eco-toothbrushes

Solvay's hydrogen peroxide for semiconductors and Genomatica's bio-based caprolactam progress

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Petroleum-based

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🏭 Dow's big recycling day

Jul 25, 2022

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🏭 Dow's big recycling day

Dow Chemical's three recycling agreements and Baystar's brand new ethane cracker

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Aromatics

+6

🏭 The pineapple protector

Jul 22, 2022

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🏭 The pineapple protector

BASF's UV stabilizer, it's unique application, and building a PET plant

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Polyurethanes

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🏭 More Canadian battery materials

Jul 20, 2022

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8 min read

🏭 More Canadian battery materials

Umicore's $1.5 billion battery materials site and Hexion's role in bio-based polyurethanes

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Adsorbents

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🏭 All kinds of MDI

Jul 18, 2022

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7 min read

🏭 All kinds of MDI

Huntsman's new MDI splitter and BASF's pyrolysis oil cleaners

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Specialty chemicals

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🏭 Killing viruses, and plastic

Jul 15, 2022

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8 min read

🏭 Killing viruses, and plastic

UV-C disinfection, Solvay's light stabilizer, Clariant's catalyst, and a biodegradable polymer

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Specialty polymers

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🏭 New magnesium source

Jul 13, 2022

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8 min read

🏭 New magnesium source

Magnesium from nickel waste and Celanese's acquisition financing

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
🏭 Water evaporation is safe

Jul 11, 2022

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7 min read

🏭 Water evaporation is safe

Plastic Energy and Axens' pyrolysis licensing agreement and Covestro's PUD progress

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Brine-based

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🏭 Don't ship chlorine

Jul 8, 2022

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7 min read

🏭 Don't ship chlorine

More chlor-alkali is coming to India and reducing Nylon's emissions with hydrogen

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Specialty chemicals

+3

🏭 Special chip gases

Jul 6, 2022

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8 min read

🏭 Special chip gases

More PDH in China and US-based semiconductor gases

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Batteries

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🏭 American LiOH

Jul 1, 2022

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9 min read

🏭 American LiOH

Indorama's one-step MTBE and Albemarle and lithium hydroxide in the US

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Renewable refining

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🏭 Methanolysis again

Jun 29, 2022

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8 min read

🏭 Methanolysis again

Eastman might molecularly recycle in Texas and Neste committed to Rotterdam

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
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