• Key macro-economic trends (external and internal to the global chemical industry)
• Implications for value chains (e.g competitor landscape, business models and strategies, demand shifts)
• Uncertainties and risks – what are they and how firms can mitigate
• Outlook to 2030 and scenario analysis

• Status update on EO and MEG
• When and where is new ethoxylation capacity scheduled to come on-stream?
• Impact of US shale gas on ethylene balances

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• Briefs on ethylene, ethylene oxide, ethanolamines, fatty acids, fatty alcohols and LAB/LAS
• Outlining the regionality of the reports/markets
• Brief on general ICIS methodology

• Reviewing new sources including fermentation, metathesis, algae, non-food plant and animal oils, F-T and pyrolysis waxes etc
• Tailored lipid drop-ins, bi-functionals, other equivalent non-fungible products for biodiesel and oleochemical end-uses
• Analysis of competitive economics / value added of some products

• Analysing how conversion technologies empower developers to provide value never before seen, increasing the range of practical applications
• Evaluating how extensive partnering activity links developers to those with market access and experience with applications development
• Reviewing how new processes are increasing options for feedstocks with important regional implications for sourcing and overall economics

• Overview - oils providing highly differentiated value in the surfactants industry
• A portfolio of oils to address global oleochemical and surfactant demand
• Lauric oils family to suit specific fatty alcohol plant configurations and idiosyncrasies of regional demand
• Oleic oils for natural and mineral oil base applications
• New product development opportunities
• Solazyme's approach to partnering for effective commercialization

This session will comprise 3 papers from up-and-coming companies reviewing their technologies and considering their impact on the surfactants market.
 

Bio-based surfactants from waste carbon

• Analyzing market opportunities to convert waste-derived syngas into sustainable bio-based chemical products that would replace petroleum and food-crop derived chemicals
  Lisa Dyson, CEO
  KIVERDI

Bio-based aromatics and oxygenates for surfactants and personal care formulations

• Bio-based aromatics (Benzene and PX) and how Virent is working with leading brands on using those as building blocks for consumer products
• Outlining how bio-based benzene allows a new approach to linear alkyl benzene derived surfactants
• Explaining how Virent’s novel BioForming® process can also produce oxygenates (esters, alcohols, etc) with potential application in surfactants and related products
• Update on work with strategic partners
  Kieran Furlong, Director, Chemicals Business Development
  VIRENT

Production of detergent alcohols and other specialty chemicals from renewable feedstocks

• Feedstock economics driving deployment of fermentation technology
• Product optionality of biocatalyst technology
• Challenges of scale-up 
  Gary Juncosa, Executive Vice President - Chemicals
  LS9

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