🏃‍♂️💨 Chemicals are winning the industrial marathon and according to the latest IEA World Energy Outlook, this lead is expected to extend through 2035. But why? Think of the industrial economy as a marathon: four runners, each with a different stride and stamina. 💉 Chemicals find their rhythm early. They don’t sprint; they pace. They reach people first: wrapping food safely, keeping water clean, providing soap for hygiene, and delivering vaccines through plastic syringes.

Hundreds of millions in projects from   ExxonMobil ,   Dow ,  Neste   and  Ravago are already on ice. The culprit isn’t technology or investment $ — it’s Brussels’ myopic approach to mass balance accounting. By proposing to exclude molecules that end up in fuel streams, the Commission is setting rules that make most advanced recycling projects uneconomic. ♻️ Two recycling paths, two very different bets: 1) Mechanical Recycling:  flakes → washed → pellets ·       Works with c

INC Diplomats: 5 rounds, no deal. AI: 5 seconds, draft ready. ⚡🤖 The UN’s plastics treaty talks (INC-5) collapsed last week because no one could bridge the gap: 🌍 High Ambition Coalition → cap virgin polymer production 🏭 Producer states → focus on waste and recycling Humans: stalemate. An AI “negotiator”? It might have stitched together something like this: 🔹 A global decline pathway for virgin plastics — peak year in 2028 with a -5% decline thereafter 🔹 Tiered responsib

This week,  #Univation  announced the next-generation of the UNIPOL™ PE Process platform with its newest world-scale licensed capacity offering of 800,000 tonnes per year (t/y) design. The previous capacity for this platform stood at 650,000 t/y. The Gas Phase technology for making High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) was developed in the 60’s and within a decade expanded to making Linear Low Density Polyethylene (LLDPE). At the time, it was considered a great leap forward over t