Mitsui Chemicals is studying the use of ethanol as a feedstock in its naphtha crackers to boost competitiveness in response to an oversupply in the global petrochemical market, the company’s CEO said on Friday. “It’s difficult to completely overhaul our conventional crackers, so we are studying to modify them to use ethanol,” said Hashimoto Osamu, … Continue reading Mitsui Chemicals looking at ethanol to produce petrochemicals