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🏭 The Column: August 22, 2025

Aug 22, 2025

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🏭 The Column: August 22, 2025

OCOChem just signed a deal with ADM to build a CO2-utilization plant at one of ADM's ethanol-production facilities.

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
🏭 The Column: July 25, 2025

Jul 25, 2025

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🏭 The Column: July 25, 2025

Air Liquide is looking to lock-in molybdenum as the semiconductor industry shifts away from tungsten.

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
🏭 The Column: July 18, 2025

Jul 18, 2025

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🏭 The Column: July 18, 2025

Cargill's joint venture just completed construction of their bio-based 1,4-BDO plant next to their corn-to-sugar plant in Iowa.

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
🏭 The Column: July 11, 2025

Jul 11, 2025

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🏭 The Column: July 11, 2025

The lithium-ion battery industry has a sodium sulfate problem and Aepnus might have the best solution.

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
🏭 The Column: June 27, 2025

Jun 27, 2025

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🏭 The Column: June 27, 2025

Veolia is removing PFAS from Delaware water with 42 vessels packed with activated carbon thanks to new regulation.

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
🏭 The Column: April 18, 2025

Apr 18, 2025

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🏭 The Column: April 18, 2025

Holocene, a direct-air-capture startup, got acquired by Occidental Petroleum just two years after Carbon Engineering did.

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
🏭 The Column: April 11, 2025

Apr 11, 2025

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🏭 The Column: April 11, 2025

A company who bought BioAmber's old assets now has new investors and is trying to make bio-based isoprene and SAF.

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
🏭 The Column: April 4, 2025

Apr 4, 2025

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🏭 The Column: April 4, 2025

You've probably never thought about the used motor oil recycling industry, but it's growing, and Shell's new joint venture plant in Houston is the latest addition.

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
🏭 The Column: March 28, 2025

Mar 28, 2025

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🏭 The Column: March 28, 2025

Increased supply from China and high natural gas prices in Europe are causing plant closures, and the situation is no different for propylene oxide.

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
🏭 The Column: March 14, 2025

Mar 14, 2025

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🏭 The Column: March 14, 2025

Helium comes from weird places and is used for weird things, but it's supply is being depleted, so on-purpose helium is on the rise.

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
🏭 The Column: March 7, 2025

Mar 7, 2025

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🏭 The Column: March 7, 2025

Making PVDC more recyclable means longer lasting meat or less fines for brands in the EU, but either way it's a good thing.

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
🏭 The Column: February 28, 2025

Feb 28, 2025

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🏭 The Column: February 28, 2025

Evonik and AGAE are replacing alkylphenol ethoxylates with rhamnolipids, but at two different scales and with two different speeds.

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
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