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Olefins

Specialty chemicals

+5

🏭 The chicken or the egg

Jul 29, 2022

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9 min read

🏭 The chicken or the egg

Origin's carbon-negative carbon black and Dow's gas sweeting plans

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Petroleum-based

+5

🏭 Dow's big recycling day

Jul 25, 2022

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9 min read

🏭 Dow's big recycling day

Dow Chemical's three recycling agreements and Baystar's brand new ethane cracker

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Specialty chemicals

+3

🏭 Special chip gases

Jul 6, 2022

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8 min read

🏭 Special chip gases

More PDH in China and US-based semiconductor gases

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Enzymatic

+4

🏭 Microbes for everything

Jun 20, 2022

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7 min read

🏭 Microbes for everything

Genomatica and Unilever's surfactant plans and Ineos' intent to build a VAM plant

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Petroleum-based

+3

🏭 Taking the L (out of LNG)

Jun 17, 2022

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8 min read

🏭 Taking the L (out of LNG)

Freeport LNG's fire and Dow and Shell's electric steam cracker

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Specialty polymers

+4

🏭 Motor Oil 2.0

Jun 8, 2022

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8 min read

🏭 Motor Oil 2.0

CP Chem's LAO plans and Repsol's new UHMW-PE plans

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Batteries

+4

🏭 Fancy salts

Jun 3, 2022

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8 min read

🏭 Fancy salts

Arkema's battery salt and KBR's molecular recycling investment

Darius Mortazavi
Darius Mortazavi

Commodity polymers

+4

🏭 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
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