The Column's Daily Update is published three (3) times per week.
Making solvents in Texas that reduce the viscosity of photoresists so that Samsung can add extra thin layers to its fancy 5G chips.
LG Chem's bio-based acrylic acid, enzymatic esterification of fatty acids, and Angola's first urea plant.
Licensing PEF production, using polymers to capture CO2, and making carbon black from tire-based pyrolysis oil.
Cracking ammonia with photocatalysts in South Korea, shutting down a century old Houston refinery, and building more niacinamide capacity.
Decentralizing chlor-alkali production, the molecular recycling of Plexiglas, and trends in eyeglass lens materials.
CO2-based carbonates that are used in lithium-ion batteries, an agreement between a seed designer and a potential SAF producer, and a new plastic sorting plant.
