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🏭 The Column: June 7, 2024

Jun 7, 2024

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🏭 The Column: June 7, 2024

Trillium's bio-based acrylonitrile, Covestro's investment in BioBTX, and Oxy's DLE deal.

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
🏭 The Column: May 31, 2024

May 31, 2024

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🏭 The Column: May 31, 2024

Fulcrum Bioenergy’s demise, DuPont is splitting into pieces, and a standalone ethylene-to-alky unit.

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
🏭 The Column: May 24, 2024

May 24, 2024

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7 min read

🏭 The Column: May 24, 2024

A new PO process, recycling PVC, making CO2 free cement, and converting naphtha into ethane and propane.

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
🏭 The Column: May 17, 2024

May 17, 2024

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🏭 The Column: May 17, 2024

A bio-based 1,3 propanediol expansion, less BASF in Ludwigshafen, Equinor bought into Standard Lithium, Ashland is selling its nutraceutical biz.

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
🏭 The Column: May 3, 2024

May 3, 2024

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🏭 The Column: May 3, 2024

Origin's cap business, SK Geocentric’s better PLA process, Ex-Solvay and Orbia broke ground, and Potassium formate from CO2.

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
🏭 The Column: Apr 26, 2024

Apr 26, 2024

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🏭 The Column: Apr 26, 2024

Encina isn’t going to Pennsylvania, Anellotech and Technip signed a deal, Standard Lithium started up its demo-scale DLE plant, and SK Capital sold Foremark after 7 years.

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
🏭 The Column: Apr 19, 2024

Apr 19, 2024

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🏭 The Column: Apr 19, 2024

Guess who's back?

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
🏭 The Column: Dec 15, 2023

Dec 15, 2023

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🏭 The Column: Dec 15, 2023

Ineos' EO acquisition, Lanxess and sulfur carriers, sustainable EO, CO2 to methanol, and Cyclyx's first plant.

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
🏭 The Column: Dec 8, 2023

Dec 8, 2023

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10 min read

🏭 The Column: Dec 8, 2023

Clariant's cellulosic bioethanol, reducing CO2 to CO, financing lithium, retrofitting a refinery, electrolytes, sodium sulfate, and licensing.

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
🏭 The Column: Nov 30, 2023

Nov 30, 2023

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6 min read

🏭 The Column: Nov 30, 2023

Waste plastic to phenol, concrete admixtures, ferric sulfate, net-zero steam cracking, Röhm and SABIC.

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
🏭 The Column: Nov 22, 2023

Nov 22, 2023

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🏭 The Column: Nov 22, 2023

PureCycle's problems, OCOChem, Origin's layoff, LyondellBasell and MoReTec, LanzaTech and steel, Goodyear, and Evonik.

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
🏭 The Column: Nov 15, 2023

Nov 15, 2023

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🏭 The Column: Nov 15, 2023

Exxon and lithium, the helium auction, ADNOC, Lummus and Citroniq, Heirloom, and Solidia.

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi
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