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BUSINESS Business Roundup ShareShare onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail C&EN, 2019, 97 (42), p 15October 28, 2019Cite this:C&EN 97, 42, 15AbstractWildcat Discovery Technologies, a battery materials discovery start-up, has raised $20 million in its third round of funding. The San Diego–based company will use the funds to improve its high-throughput platform and artificial intelligence capability and to begin sales and licensing. Solvay will increase capacity for its Tecnoflon FKM fluoroelastomer in Spinetta Marengo, Italy, by nearly one-third. Demand for the polymer is growing in sealing applications in the auto, oil and gas, and semiconductor industries, Solvay says. DuPont and Lenzing are launching fabrics that combine DuPont’s Sorona fiber and Lenzing’s Lyocell and Tencel fibers. Sorona is 37% plant-based ingredients, and Lenzing’s fibers are derived from wood. Air Liquide is joining a demonstration project of ArcelorMittal and Lanzatech to capture steelmaking flue gases and turn them into ethanol. Air Liquide is providing gas purification technology to the effort, which will start up in Ghent, Belgium, next year. Total is doubling theView: PDF | Full Text HTML
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