Chemical Weekly | LinkedIn Newsletter | 2022 | Edition 15

Opinion

• Concerns over availability & price of battery materials decelerate EV sales, By Mr. Ravi Raghavan, Editor, Chemical Weekly

News

• Global plastic waste on track to triple by 2060, but recycling could help
• ACHEMA 2022 to address industry’s key issues of digitalisation and sustainability
• Clariant produces first commercial cellulosic ethanol at Romanian facility
• Bayer and Planet labs expand relationship to support sustainable agriculture
• GATTEFOSSé setting up facility in US for lipid-based speciality ingredients
• Olin restarts operations at Louisiana chlor alkali facility
• Genomatica and Unilever join up to scale alternatives to palm oil and fossil fuels
• INEOS plans acetic acid and derivatives facility on US Gulf coast
• SABIC, Tesco, The Kraft Heinz Company & Berry Global, Inc. join forces in food packaging recycling trial in UK
• Kuraray and Origin Materials team up to commercialise carbon negative materials for diverse polymer applications
• Kraton Corporation announces price increase for HSBC polymers
• Albemarle Corporation opens new plant in Chile to expand lithium production
• BioConsortia, Inc. and The Mosaic Company expand collaboration to microbial biostimulant
• Univar Solutions expands European homecare & industrial cleaning distribution deal with Boai Nky Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
• INEOS launches new lower carbon bio product line for phenol-acetone business
• Dow and Shell start up electric-powered steam cracker unit
• Solvay completes PVDF capacity expansion in China ahead of schedule
• Firmenich joins hands with China’s ScentRealm to explore digital future of fragrances
• BASF expands capacity in China for cathode active materials
• Evonik begins production of enzymatic emollient esters at Shanghai facility
• Merck Group joins up with Agilent Technologies for process analytical technologies; collaborates with German research body on molecular machine learning

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