Biobased Phenol Shipped - by Tony - The Polymerist
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The Koreans figured it out, likely with some help from the Finnish
Hey There, I noticed that LG Chem has officially shipped their first shipment of biobased phenol and acetone to an unnamed polycarbonate producer. When I was in graduate school there was a lot of talk about trying to produce phenol from lignin, but there were always issues around purity, feedstock provenance, and cost. Well, it appears as if LG Chem and Neste have figured out how to make biobased cumene. If you have no idea what phenol or cumene are it really doesn’t matter. What you need to know is that this is a chemical used in the production of a myriad of different polymers that you…
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