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Specialty polymers

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🏭 Dutch State Mines

Jun 1, 2022

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🏭 Dutch State Mines

Royal DSM's $4B divestment and BASF's water-blown polyurethanes

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Catalysts

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🏭 Fat BHETs

May 27, 2022

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7 min read

🏭 Fat BHETs

Wacker's silicone rubber expansions and depolymerizing PET to BHET

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Specialty polymers

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🏭 It's basically battery glue

May 25, 2022

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8 min read

🏭 It's basically battery glue

Solvay's PVDF expansion progress and the US DOE and DAC

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Aromatics

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🏭 Making plastic clear

May 23, 2022

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8 min read

🏭 Making plastic clear

Miliken's polypropylene clarifier and Sumitomo exits the dye business

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Commodity polymers

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🏭 Palm epoxies only

May 20, 2022

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7 min read

🏭 Palm epoxies only

Technip Energies' bio-based epoxies and molecular recycling in Texas

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Specialty chemicals

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🏭 Vanilla without the bean

May 18, 2022

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7 min read

🏭 Vanilla without the bean

Solvay's fermentation-based vanillin and Total's drone project

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Desalination

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🏭 Exiting Russia

May 16, 2022

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7 min read

🏭 Exiting Russia

Shell's Russian divestment and Toray's desalinating membranes

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Renewable refining

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🏭 Chlorine, CO2, same thing

May 13, 2022

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8 min read

🏭 Chlorine, CO2, same thing

LG Chem's CO2 electrolyzer and Phillips 66's renewable refinery

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Waste-based

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🏭 Capturing lime CO2

May 11, 2022

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7 min read

🏭 Capturing lime CO2

Making lime without CO2 and LyondellBasell's recycling thoughts

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Specialty chemicals

+5

🏭 Electric acetylene

May 9, 2022

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6 min read

🏭 Electric acetylene

Danimer's degradable polymer coating and Orion's conductive materials

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Aromatics

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🏭 Making beer clear

May 6, 2022

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7 min read

🏭 Making beer clear

SK Capital's essential oil acquisition and Ashland's beer clarifier

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Batteries

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🏭 More CAM coming

May 4, 2022

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7 min read

🏭 More CAM coming

Umicore's cathode materials deal and Domo's polyamide 6 plans

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
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