The articles cover diverse chemical industry topics including U.S.-Canada trade tensions threatening $60 billion in chemical commerce, troubleshooting of a faulty weir plate in kettle reboilers, energy-efficient membrane technologies for water processing, TSCA reform for safer chemicals, potential U.S.-Canada trade war impacts, early AI applications in solids processes, historical pollution tracking from ancient lead smelting to modern PFAS contamination in the Arctic, and Trish Kerin's career transition from process safety to entrepreneurship.
Traci Purdum, an award-winning business journalist with extensive experience covering manufacturing and management issues, is a graduate of the Kent State University School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Kent, Ohio, and an alumnus of the Wharton Seminar for Business Journalists, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.