Fracking a boon for guar gum farmers
PETROCHEMISTRY
The price of guar gum, produced from the seeds of the guar plant, has been skyrocketing recently. While it has long been used in the food industry as a texture-modifying...
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HISTORY
Shell was one of the first Canadian oil companies to expand beyond fuels to commodity chemicals like the methyl ethyl ketone trumpeted in this ad from the June 1949 issue...
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COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
With the longest coastline in the world, and an export economy founded upon natural resources, shipbuilding and ship repair is arguably Canada’s most iconic industry. Rubber has been a key...
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