Chlorine, caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) and hydrochloric acid come out of the same chlor-alkali cell, so their supply moves together. Running salt brine through a cell gives 1.128 tonnes of sodium hydroxide...
On July 1, 2026 the EPA released draft guidance for reducing risk from PFOA and PFOS in biosolids (memo signed June 29, 2026, docket EPA-HQ-OW-2026-2509). It is voluntary. It recommends source control...
On 22 September 2026 Ineos began mothballing its three acetyls plants at Saltend, Hull, which the company describes as Europe’s last world-scale acetyls units. The site lists capacity for 500,000 tonnes a...
A 2026 paper in the Journal of Chemical Education, led by Mark Elliott at Cardiff University, argues that the inductive effect in a neutral organic molecule is effectively limited to one bond,...
The potash in the September 2026 headlines is potassium chloride, the fertilizer salt. Caustic potash, the potassium hydroxide sold to industry, is made from that salt by chlor-alkali electrolysis, and the US...
Methanol is being pulled from two directions at once in September 2026. On the supply side, Iranian exports — roughly 10 million tonnes a year, most of it to China — have...
Soda ash and boric acid are usually bought as unrelated commodities, but in the United States they are partly the same product. The US Geological Survey records that in 2025 the American...
The fluoride added to American drinking water is fluorosilicic acid (H₂SiF₆), and it is not manufactured on purpose. It is a scrubber product: phosphate rock is about 3–4% fluoride, and when sulfuric...
As of August 2026, Mosaic — the largest phosphate producer in the United States — has curtailed or idled production at four phosphate facilities: Bartow and Riverview in Florida, and Faustina and...
At the end of August 2026, European regulators cleared CarbonBridge, a Messer and Ambrian Energy joint venture, to build Germany’s first CO₂ export terminal at Bremen — 2.3 million tonnes a year...
Replacing a branded glycol? We line up inhibited ethylene and propylene glycols against the brands below by freeze point, side by side: DOWFROST · DOWTHERM SR-1 · PROTOCOL LT · Thermal Charge...
The viral claim that glycerin in toothpaste coats teeth so thickly it takes 27 rinses to remove has no published study behind it; it traces to a self-published book by a retired...
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in Laem Chabang, Thailand on 2 September 2026 after 286 days at sea with running rust down its hull, and the rust sits almost entirely...
The orange-brown plume over La Habra, California on 8 September 2026 has the colour of nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), the one common industrial gas that can be identified by eye. NIOSH describes NO₂...
Dongjin Semichem Texas notified the FTZ Board of proposed production activity for semiconductor-grade photoresist thinner at its Killeen, Texas facility.
OSHA cited Woodland Pulp LLC in Baileyville, Maine, for alleged chemical-safety failures after a January hydrogen sulfide release killed two workers and a March peroxide-related fire.
A disposable nitrile glove is not a general-purpose chemical barrier. Under ASTM F739 permeation testing, acetone breaks through nitrile in about 3 minutes, and methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) is not rated for...
C&EN’s Policy Watch roundup says an EPA proposal on data center air permits is coming under fire, signaling possible permitting and compliance uncertainty for operators.
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