What are Acrylic Acid and Acrylates? Acrylic acid is an unsaturated carboxylic acid composed of a vinyl group that is directly connected to a carboxylic acid terminus. The organic compound is a ...

Some of the largest chemical companies in the world—Arkema, BASF, Cargill, Dow, and LG Chemical among them—have attempted to make acrylic acid via a biobased route. It stands to reason that they would ...

Chemical and biotech firms are competing to meet one of the biggest challenges in biobased chemicals: an alternative to propylene-derived acrylic acid. The global market is worth billions of dollars, ...

Saudi Acrylic Monomer Company (Samco) plans to award the construction contract for the first phase of its new $1.5bn acrylics complex at Jubail by September at the latest, sources close to the project ...