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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...
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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...
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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...
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Tecnon OrbiChem: Apr 1, 2022, 8:17:18 AM
Fabrics and textiles made from the naturally occurring polymer cellulose are breaking ground in the move towards sustainable fashion. With the...
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Tecnon OrbiChem: Apr 1, 2022, 8:16:40 AM
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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Terry Li: Mar 1, 2022, 12:00:00 AM
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...
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Jane Denny: Nov 24, 2021, 12:00:00 AM
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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Jane Denny: Nov 23, 2021, 12:00:00 AM
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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Tecnon OrbiChem: Nov 17, 2021, 12:00:00 AM
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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Tecnon OrbiChem: Nov 3, 2021, 12:00:00 AM
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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Jennifer Hawkins: Oct 27, 2021, 12:00:00 AM
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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Doris de Guzman: Oct 21, 2021, 12:00:00 AM
Pyrolysis is the thermal degradation/decomposition process that occurs in the absence of oxygen, which results in the production of pyrolytic liquid...
