which was authored by Bryden Wood in conjunction with BCA.

Even now, the cost of solvent supply represents only 1% of Cost of Goods, although this amounts to $4bn globally.These numbers do not include the money spent by the industry to treat solvent waste, manage the safety risks, or pay any application of carbon tax..

It was noted that there are streams of scientific development in AI models which can help predict the production of harmful impurities and detect these impurities cheaply at parts per billion and parts per trillion levels.Even now, the cost of solvent supply represents only 1% of Cost of Goods, although this amounts to $4bn globally.These numbers do not include the money spent by the industry to treat solvent waste, manage the safety risks, or pay any application of carbon tax.

If the market opportunity becomes clear and entry eased, there is an almost unlimited source of non-fossil organic materials from industrial waste streams e.g.food, drink, paper, fabric and agriculture.

There is a huge effort ongoing to find replacement sources for aircraft fuel (SAF).

A small amount of this could be diverted to the much more commercially valuable (margin-wise) supply of high purity solvents..It’s a somewhat odd situation considering that the construction industry is inherently a collaborative one.

Every asset we build requires many different parties to work together, but when the projects end, people go their separate ways as competitors.Although that’s all fine and good, ultimately it means we aren’t taking learnings forwards from one project to another.

Things aren’t being effectively fed back or built upon, and so we aren’t seeing the beneficial changes we desire.Sully believes it’s this lack of considered collaboration, and the need to overcome such issues, which is ultimately responsible for the lack of government funding we’ve seen, despite long-standing acknowledgement of the problems..