Sitemap - 2021 - The Polymerist

End Of The Year

The Oil Demand Seesaw

The Chemical Company Of The Future

Conglomerates Breaking Themselves Up

The Future Of Chemical Product Development

Supply Chain Squeeze

Getting To The Top Of The Ladder

Carbon Emissions Go Into Shoes

More Profits For Chemical Companies

Activist Investor Seeking Shell Breakup

Silver Bullets Are For Werewolves

Hexion Splits

Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants

Resisting Commodification of Specialties

Will It Compost?

Oil Companies Placing Big Bets On Pyrolysis Oil

Location Dependence

Old King Coal

The Framework Of This Newsletter Going Forward

One Year Of The Polymerist

Covestro Cutting Workforce By 10%

Swinging For The Fences

Specialty Chemicals Enable Lower Carbon Emissions

Reverse Logistics Companies

Investing Billions In Circular Economies

The Burden of Capability

From Oil Extraction To Carbon Trading

The Risk Adjusted Home Run

Surfactant Maker Worth $1.3 Billion

Developing New Chemical Products

What Are Specialty Chemicals?

Record Profits By Most Big Chemical Companies and Everything Is More Expensive

Zymergen's Implosion

Rheology is the study of how things...

Extracting oil isn't easy, but someone has to do it for now

My Favorite Thesis Committee Member

The Future of Composites is...

Phenolic Resins and Lignin

Construction Products Consolidation

Five Actions For Sustainable Change

Vacation

Building A New Boat While You Are Sailing A Boat

Warrior Monks

Buy. Sell. Rinse. Repeat.

Plastics Industry Needs To Have United Voice

Me Too and Cost Cutting

Starting a Career in Research and Development

Rust Belt Riders Are Building Their Green Future One Bucket At A Time

Polymerist Basics: Polyethylene

Oil Companies Under Pressure To Change Their Business By Shareholders and Governments

Polymerist Basics: Epoxy Resins

Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria Raise $10 Million

The Clothing Waste Problem Part 2

The Resurgence of Speciality Chemicals

Layoffs

Sunday Review

Save The Birds and Bio-Based Nail Polish Remover

The Island Problem

Sunday Review

Exxon's Carbon Capture Plan

Specialty Polymers: Nylon

Sunday Review

Reflection

Virus Killing Polymers

Sunday Review

The Big Chemical Companies Are Getting Bigger, Faster, Stronger

Living Next To Industrial Manufacturing Should Be Our Goal

The Sunday Review

Covestro Gets Approval For Wind Turbine Resin While Arkema Invests In Superglue Innovation

Missing My Deadline

The Sunday Review

Circular Economy Of My Dreams or Is It Just Green Washing?

The Clothing Waste Problem

The Sunday Review

Suez Canal Blocked Then Unblocked While Canada Legalizes Carbon Tax

Career Stories: Navigating From Research To Teaching with Angela

The Sunday Review

DuPont Acquires Laird and Danimer Partners with Mars Wrigley

Externalizing The Costs Of Our Modern Life

The Sunday Review

The Aftershocks of The Texas Freeze

Career Stories: Navigating the Chemical Industry

The Sunday Review

Shareholders Want Decarbonization

Policy Position: Presidential Plastic Action Plan

The Sunday Review

Shell Unveils Their Strategy For Net-Zero Carbon Emissions While Pipelines Freeze in Texas

Peak Phosphorous: Growing Enough Food For 9 Billion People In 2050

Sunday Review

Financial Chemistry: Divestments, Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, Layoffs, Going Public, and Startups Raising Millions 🚀

Nanocarriers: The Future in Cancer Treatment with Selectivity

Sunday Catch Up

Specialty Polymers- Coatings, Adhesives, Sealants, Elastomers and More

Chemical Recycling of PET - Is Now The Time It Will Work?

Sunday Catch Up

Plastics Circular Economy And Green Chemistry

Science and Technology Policy Fellowships

Carbon Capture - Is it legit?

Mergers, Acquisitions, Spinoffs, and Lawsuits

Oil News Special

You Can Only Get So Far On Your Own

Coatings. Adhesives. Sealants. Elastomers. - CASE

Furan Dicarboxylic Acid and Polyethylene Furanoate

Green Chemistry And Circular Economy News

Platform Chemicals: Phenol

Chemical Industry Job Discussion

Clariant On Track For 1600 Layoffs

GE Goes For Big Wind Turbines

Danimer Scientific SPACs and Mitsubishi Chemical Invests in Carbon Fiber Manufacturing

Oil News Special

How To Get a Job As a Chemist in The Chemical Industry

AkzoNobel Gets Into Yachting and PPG goes to Norway to Buy Paint