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🏭 Natural soda only
LockSimple

Jun 9, 2023

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8 min read

🏭 Natural soda only

Solvay’s green hydrogen peroxide, WE Soda’s IPO, and benzene.

🏭 May 2023: Round-Up

Jun 7, 2023

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6 min read

🏭 May 2023: Round-Up

Everything that happened in May 2023, plus some discussion.

🏭 Acid for your skin

Jun 5, 2023

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9 min read

🏭 Acid for your skin

Electric cracking at LyondellBasell’s site, Chemours’ glycolic acid divestment, and roller blade wheels.

🏭 Good ole' Sabatier
LockSimple

Jun 2, 2023

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8 min read

🏭 Good ole' Sabatier

TotalEnergies’ synthetic natural gas, BP’s latest SAF plans, and vinyl acetate.

🏭 Coupling formate

May 31, 2023

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9 min read

🏭 Coupling formate

Cellulosic ethanol for Dow Chemical, Avantium’s electrochemical CO2 conversion process, and laundry detergent.

🏭 Lithium for rubber
LockSimple

May 26, 2023

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8 min read

🏭 Lithium for rubber

Lanxess’s benzyl alcohol expansion, Arlanxeo’s new elastomer plant, and benzaldehyde.

🏭 Oil, lithium, same thing
LockSimple

May 24, 2023

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8 min read

🏭 Oil, lithium, same thing

Exxon’s lithium mining acquisition, Nippon Shokubai’s new acrylic acid plant, drain cleaners.

🏭 Veggie-based solutions

May 22, 2023

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10 min read

🏭 Veggie-based solutions

Idemitsu is offsetting styrene transport, BASF's sustainable propylene glycol, and acrylonitrile.

🏭 Irish OLEDs
LockSimple

May 19, 2023

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8 min read

🏭 Irish OLEDs

UDC and PPG's new OLED plant, LyondellBasell's green bonds, and orthopedic casts.

🏭 The most protected rice
LockSimple

May 17, 2023

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8 min read

🏭 The most protected rice

Trinseo's polycarbonate dissolution pilot plant, a new herbicide for rice protection, and butanol.

🏭 Like electrolysis, but with plasma

May 15, 2023

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8 min read

🏭 Like electrolysis, but with plasma

Tosoh and MCC's CO2-based isocyanates, Graforce's methane plasmalysis, and athletic shoes.

🏭 A big lithium merger
LockSimple

May 12, 2023

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9 min read

🏭 A big lithium merger

Livent and Allkem are now one, Entegris' CMP divestment, and propylene oxide.

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