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Next steps for industry

1. Becoming a reliable supplier. “It’s never business as usual; there will be new hurdles.” Gatto said. “The industry has a credibility gap that needs to be overcome. Additional time and successes will fill that. “More plants, more players, more credibility are all needed.”

2. Developing new applications. “The chemicals industry is used to innovation and the spirit of partnership needed to foster it,” Gatto tells the Digest. “They may not be jumping in as investors in every case because the technologies are outside their core competence. But they are all very much involved in applications. We’ve seen that in polymers and urethanes. They see that these chemical intermediates can create real value for them in the downstream.