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Solar Energy Boom Sparks EVA Capacity Expansions
That the sun is capable of supplying enough solar power to meet all of earth’s annual energy needs by shining for just 90 minutes is a fact that...
Bioeconomy and Renewables (8)
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Innovation in pyrolysis picks up pace in Q4 2021
The potential for pyrolysis to tackle waste and increase circularity in plastics industries moved closer to reality yesterday (23 November). Shell...
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Renewable Materials and the Future of Plastics
As COP26 delegates dissected the detail on decarbonising our world, chemical innovators ushered in sustainable solutions of their own. Late 2021 saw...
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Ammonia Shortage Triggers Supply Chain Ripple Effect
South Korea’s urea supply crunch is a stark reminder of the value in supply chain diversification. With very little means of meeting its own urea...
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The natural gas price surge and its impact on chemical markets
Global natural gas prices surged throughout 2021 due to a combination of key maintenance works, fire outages at extraction and processing sites,...
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Energy Cost Shock May Ripple Into 2022 Phenol Markets
Hopes that the global phenol prices were on a downtrend in Q4 were dashed in October as producers in the US and Europe announced plans to increase...
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Pyrolysis Projects on a Hot Investment Streak
Pyrolysis is the thermal degradation/decomposition process that occurs in the absence of oxygen, which results in the production of pyrolytic liquid...
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Energy Policy in China and its Impact on some Chemicals Production
Energy is the latest and unexpected factor impacting petrochemical, chemical, and polymer industries in all regions of the world in Q4 2021....
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Funding Heats Up For Biotech Material Developers
Funding, investments and grants continue to soar for biotech materials developers, especially after several successful IPOs from companies such as...
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Acrylic Acid & Acrylates - When Can Buyers Put the Anguish Behind Them?
To say this year has proved a huge challenge for the acrylic acid and acrylates market would be a vast understatement. Buyers have faced a huge...
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Rising Commercialization of Specialty High-Temperature Bio-based Polymers
As of 22 April, California, USA-based biofacturing company Zymergen began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “ZY” and...
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Pine-Based Chemicals Market Update
Kraton Corporation announced on 17 February a general price increase of 10% across its entire pine chemicals and alpha methyl styrene (AMS) resins...