The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of Renewable Chemicals

Policymakers and energy security hawks love fuel, but consumers love renewable chemicals that power the everyday applications in their lives — resins, solvents, nutraceuticals, intermediates to make fabrics, nylons, plastics, and more. There’s a dizzying array of candidates — hydrogen for chemistry, methanol ammonia, PLA, PHA, ethanol, ethylene, MEG, ethyl acetate, BDO, PEG, the four-carbon esters and acids, and many many more. New technologies are unlocking waste feedstocks, methane and other raw materials like never before. What are the drivers, who are the players, what technologies are developing and deploying, how does policy play a role — and what does the finance sector think of the feedstock shortage? It’s the State of the Sector.