🏭 Natural soda only
Solvay’s green hydrogen peroxide, WE Soda’s IPO, and benzene.
🏭 May 2023: Round-Up
Everything that happened in May 2023, plus some discussion.
🏭 Acid for your skin
Electric cracking at LyondellBasell’s site, Chemours’ glycolic acid divestment, and roller blade wheels.
🏭 Good ole' Sabatier
TotalEnergies’ synthetic natural gas, BP’s latest SAF plans, and vinyl acetate.
🏭 Coupling formate
Cellulosic ethanol for Dow Chemical, Avantium’s electrochemical CO2 conversion process, and laundry detergent.
🏭 Lithium for rubber
Lanxess’s benzyl alcohol expansion, Arlanxeo’s new elastomer plant, and benzaldehyde.
🏭 Oil, lithium, same thing
Exxon’s lithium mining acquisition, Nippon Shokubai’s new acrylic acid plant, drain cleaners.
🏭 Veggie-based solutions
Idemitsu is offsetting styrene transport, BASF's sustainable propylene glycol, and acrylonitrile.
🏭 Irish OLEDs
UDC and PPG's new OLED plant, LyondellBasell's green bonds, and orthopedic casts.
🏭 The most protected rice
Trinseo's polycarbonate dissolution pilot plant, a new herbicide for rice protection, and butanol.