Making good use of CO2

摘要

Rowena Sellens, CEO of Econic Technologies, is a clear evangelist for the use of carbon dioxide to make polyols. The company, spun out of London's Imperial College and now located in the science park on the former AstraZeneca site at Alderley Park just south of Manchester, has a strong patent portfolio comprising catalyst technologies that can produce polycarbonate and polyether carbonate polyols with tuneable amounts of carbon dioxide in their backbone. Not only is it possible to use different amounts of CO2 with Econic's technology, but this makes it possible to produce polyols which span a wide spectrum of physical properties without blending, she said.