the trends in chemical manufacturing today

I think that the appropriate way to evaluate where the chemical manufacturing industry is going is to look at what the U.S. Department of Commerce has honed into.

There are a few major ways to formally determine their vision for advanced manufacturing. The first is identifying the partners of the Manufacturing USA network which is also known as the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation as a part of Obama’s Advanced Manufacturing Partnership.

There are a few notable chemical related initiatives

America Makes is heavily focused on 3D printing and additive manufacturing.

The Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute is focused on cell and tissue culture. Likewise NIIMBL is centered around flexible advanced biomanufacturing.

RAPID is centered around process intensification for increased efficiencies. This is solely a chemical process engineering institute.

The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation is looking at new polymer composites for advanced manufacturing. On a similar note, NextFlex is looking at hybrid electronics. LIFT is looking at lightweight materials.

Smart Manufacturing and DMDII are both efforts around digital manufacturing and introduction of IoT methodologies to chemical processing.

These efforts along with AMTech, the Materials Genome Initiative, and the National Nanotechnology Initiative reveal that the major focus for new chemical manufacturing can be summarized as improved, agile, and efficient manufacturing methods, bioprocessing, new hybrid materials for advanced technologies, and process intensification to enable all of the above.

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