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Image shows the different routes to develop biobased monopropylene glycol

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Biobased Monopropylene Glycol: The Bumpy Road to a Decarbonized World

Jane Denny: Apr 27, 2022 6:28:15 AM

Monopropylene glycol (MPG) – often called simply propylene glycol – is essential to a wide range of products across a variety of industries and...

Image shows the chemical reactions for catalysing succinic acid from petrochemical-based feedstocks as opposed to a biobased route

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Biobased Succinic Acid: Is the Sustainable Route Becoming Economically Viable Once More?

Jane Denny: Apr 13, 2022 3:52:17 PM

A renewable technology hailed as revolutionary in the 2010s may emerge as a choice route to deliver key intermediate chemicals in the future. When...

Image shows a paintbrush overlaid on four pots of paint

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Sustainable Routes to Polyurethane

Tecnon OrbiChem: Apr 13, 2022 9:35:30 AM

It could be considered one of the plastics world's most contradictory materials. Notoriously under-recycled due to technical difficulty, polyurethane...

Exponential growth of cellulose staple fibers since the start of the new millennium.

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Cellulosic Fibers - A World of Opportunity

Tecnon OrbiChem: Apr 1, 2022 11:23:00 AM

Worldwide demand for fibers has strongly mirrored GDP for many decades. Having closely monitored markets since 1975, Tecnon OrbiChem predicts a...

Selection of pictures showing 3D printing materials granulate, powder, filament and liquid.

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3D Printing - Additive Manufacturing - Rapid Prototyping

Tecnon OrbiChem: Apr 1, 2022 8:24:26 AM

Additive manufacturing (AM) – or 3D printing – is a technique for producing solid objects by arranging particles in space via a computer-controlled...

Image is a diagramatc representation of a pioneering method for producing ethylene using methane

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A METHANE ROUTE TO ETHYLENE

Tecnon OrbiChem: Apr 1, 2022 8:23:13 AM

Ethylene (C2H4) is a key chemical for producing a huge range of chemicals, polymers and plastics. Much of the world’s C2H4 demand is met via the...

BMW featuring a lightweight passenger compartment made of a high-strength carbon-fibre reinforced composite (CFRP).

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Composites Markets in a Changing World

Tecnon OrbiChem: Apr 1, 2022 8:22:28 AM

Encapsulating a building in popcorn may sound like a crazy way to boost energy efficiency... But researchers at Göttingen University’s Faculty of...

Containers at a shipping port for chemical transport.

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Chemical Industry Forecasts - Long and Short-Term

Tecnon OrbiChem: Apr 1, 2022 8:21:16 AM

Tecnon OrbiChem founder Charles Fryer's predictions for the chemical industry from 2022 onwards. The chemical industry endured many problems in 2020...