Edging closer to market

摘要

Chemical industry veteran Keith Wiggins took the helm at Cheshire, UK-based Econic in February, on the retirement of Ro-wena Sellens after seven years with the business. The university spin-out company was established a decade ago to commercialise catalyst technology developed at Imperial College a decade ago. The catalysts allow carbon dioxide to be incorporated into polyols via a reaction with an epoxide, giving polyols with up to 50% CO2 content, and at a sufficiently low pressure that the process could be retrofitted into existing reactors.