Sitemap - 2022 - The Polymerist

Ending The Year

Why Are You Doing This?

Technical Versus Commercial Success

The Utilization of Chemicals

Operational Execution

Constraints Are Your Friends

Building Your Coalition

Using The Materials On Hand

Costing As A Superpower

Societal Change Is Hard

Two Years Deep

Downturn

Product Management In Chemicals

A Rail Strike?

Recycling Is The Way

Paint The World

Energy Crisis

Intentionally Directing a Career Path

Huntsman Sells

Modern R&D Is Tech Service

Hire This Community

Halfway Through 2022: Current State of Chemicals

Just When You Think You Are Out

Networking In The Age Of Social

Palm Springs

Engineered Wood

Biobased Phenol Shipped

Winter Is Coming

Make Plastic Recycling Better

Know When To Quit

Vacation Reading List

On Burning Out

DSM And Firmenich To Merge

Build Me A Road

Keep Your Margins

The Next DuPont or Exxon

Biobased Platform Chemicals: Levulinic Acid

Team Work Makes The Dream Product

The Middle Of A Storm

Future Science Job Abundance

Fermenting Natural Gas

The Origins Of Stuff

Passing Through Costs

New Products for New Markets

Recycle Your Mattress

Two Extreme Models Of R&D

More Inflation Due To Oil Scarcity

Table Of Contents - Product Development

Changing The Origins Of Our Economy

Table Of Contents - Careers

The Chemical Company Is Dead

Externalizing The Costs Of Our Modern Lives

Too Much Clothing

How To Get A Job

The Forces Shaping Specialty Chemicals

Why Launching A New Material Is Difficult

Recycled Plastics Making Strong Gains

Problems Should Hit You First

No More Oil and Gas?

Early Career Scientist

Solvay Is Splitting

Solving The Enzyme Immobilization Problem

The Specialty Chemical Cycle

What I Want To Try And Do Here

LanzaTech Going Public

Developing Products With Trust

Oil and Gas Prices Near 10 Year High

Where Can I Go From Here?

DuPont Changing Their Core Business

Moving Bubbles Around More Efficiently Is The Future Of Composites

Biosurfactants To The Rescue

Chemical Companies Are Going Vertical

Change Happens Slowly For Years, Then It's Sudden

Push, Pull, Launch

Two Opposing Views In The Shadow Of War

You Got The Job...Now What?

Activist Wants To Change Huntsman

Using Biology To Downstream Process Biology

Sustainability As A Specialty

Some Thoughts On Project Management

Avantium Is All-In

Fill Up Your Plants

What Is The Alternative?

When Crisis Mitigation Becomes Your Job