Consumer goods giants team up to tackle fossil fuel feedstocks

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Consumer goods giants team up to tackle fossil fuel feedstocks

Unilever, BASF, and Tata Steel among the firms to sign up to Flue2Chem initiative, which aims to use captured industrial gases to make consumer products

Unilever, BASF, and Tata Steel are among a consortium of companies that have announced plans to collaborate on projects to explore how industrial waste gases could be converted into sustainable materials...

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