The Column's Daily Update is published three (3) times per week.
Evonik and AGAE are replacing alkylphenol ethoxylates with rhamnolipids, but at two different scales and with two different speeds.
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.
