Industry Trends

July 2020

See what has been happening in Asia’s petrochemicals, agrochemicals, automotive, bio energy, and mining industries over the last weeks. What are experts and industry magazines talking about?

What has been happening?

Turning DNA into biodegradable gels and plastics, deep Earth structures may reveal location of untapped base metal deposits, Australian researchers develop electrochemical oxidation process to clean wastewater, and more. Find out what journals and industry experts have been discussing in the last four weeks.

Latest Industry Articles

Cornell researchers lead on turning DNA into biodegradable gels and plastics
Biofuels Digest

In New York state, Cornell-led collaboration is turning DNA from organic matter—such as onions, fish and algae—into biodegradable gels and plastics. The resulting materials could be used to create everyday plastic objects, unusually strong adhesives, multifunctional composites and more effective methods for drug delivery, without harming the environment the way petrochemical-based materials do.
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Deep Earth structures may reveal location of untapped base metal deposits
MINING.com

Researchers from the United States and Australia have discovered previously unrecognized structural lines 100 miles or more down in the Earth that appear to signal the locations of giant deposits of copper, lead, and zinc. The metals, however, lie close enough to the surface to be mined, but too far down to be found using current exploration methods.
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Australian researchers develop electrochemical oxidation process to clean wastewater
Biofuels Digest

In Australia, researchers from the University of Sydney’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering developed an electrochemical oxidation process with the aim of cleaning up complex wastewater that contained a toxic cocktail of chemical pollutants. The wastewater, which contained carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus, was generated in a pilot plant, designed by the team for the production of biofuels using naturally abundant microalgae.
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Malaysia joins Indonesia’s WTO complaint against EU over palm oil
Biofuels Digest

In Malaysia, Reuters reports the government will act as a third party in Indonesia’s existing complaint against the European Union for its trade practices against palm oil. Malaysia has been threatening such a complaint for well over a year while the European Union has remained confident that it would win should a complaint be brought against the trade bloc. The EU has decided to phase out the use of palm oil in biofuel by 2030 in an effort to battle deforestation related to oil palm farming.
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Mitsubishi Motors Malaysia and NIOSH to develop safety and defensive driving training programmes
Paul Tan’s Automotive

Mitsubishi Motors Malaysia (MMM) has announced that it will be partnering with the national institute of occupational safety and health (NIOSH) Malaysia in the coming year to develop safety and defensive driving (SDD) training programmes. Both parties inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the partnership, which will run until June 2021, last week. The training programmes will be specially designed for MMM corporate customers who utilise Mitsubishi vehicles at their workplace.
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Renewable diesel expanding with petroleum-to-renewable refinery conversions
Biofuels Digest

Possibly the most famous line in Dirty Dancing, you can’t put baby in a corner and that’s certainly the case lately with renewable diesel. Some still look at renewable diesel as just a baby considering the first commercial renewable diesel facility starting running in 2010. But there is a huge transformation happening with growth in the conversion of petroleum refineries to renewable diesel.
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Why is the manual transmission going extinct in Malaysia? Because so few of us are buying them
Paul Tan’s Automotive

I pondered the question above when I recently decided to buy a simple car with a manual transmission. Basic safety equipment was a must for me (ABS and stability control at the very minimum), so the manual Perodua Bezza and Axia and Proton Saga were immediately out of the question, as they were all only available in base spec – no ESP on the Bezza and Saga, and not even ABS on the driving school-spec Axia.
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PolyOne Completes Clariant Masterbatch Acquisition, Announces New Name: Avient Corporation
PR Newswire

PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a leading global provider of specialized polymer materials, services and sustainable solutions, has completed its purchase of the color masterbatch businesses of Clariant and Clariant Chemicals India Ltd.
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Lanxess uses combined process to remove solids
Filtsep.com

At its Bitterfeld site, Lanxess produces Lewabrane reverse osmosis membrane elements for the global market. Together with the French company, Polymem SA, the Liquid Purification Technologies (LPT) business unit at specialty chemicals company Lanxess recently completed a project for an Italian oil company using a combination of ultrafiltration (UF) and reverse osmosis (RO).
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Mitsubishi Motors Malaysia introduces Mitsubishi Connect mobile app for Android, iOS – free of charge
Paul Tan’s Automotive

Mitsubishi Motors Malaysia (MMM) has introduced the Mitsubishi Connect mobile app for Mitsubishi vehicle owners in Malaysia, available in Android and Apple iOS versions from the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store respectively, free of charge.
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TechnipFMC and Clariant to Demo New Catalyst
Rigzone.com

TechnipFMC and Clariant will develop a new catalyst for producing acrylonitrile.
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Clariant teams with Ineratec to commercialize containerized GTL technology
Biofuels Digest

In Germany, Chemical Engineering Online reports that Clariant has teamed up with Ineratec, a spinoff of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, to commercialize the latter’s gas-to-liquid technology. Clariant brings to the partnership extensive catalysis expertise as well as syngas upgrading and conditioning technology.
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What were the most searched car brands in Malaysia and ASEAN countries during the recent MCO period?
Paul Tan’s Automotive

A few months ago, Malaysians had to comply with the movement control order (MCO) that kept most of us indoors, save for the occasional trip out to tapau food or to get groceries. The MCO was soon replaced by the conditional MCO in May, followed by the recovery MCO that is currently in effect from June 10 until August 31.
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