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The oil and gas industry has come a long way since the first mechanically drilled wells, which were roughly 69 feet deep. From Edwin L Drake’s team striking oil at 69.5 feet in Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 1859, to today’s Permian Basin producers drilling wells over 3,000 feet in vertical depth and exceeding 25,000 feet in […]
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At the 2025 ADI Forum, Sachin Sakhalkar, SVP, Teknor Apex, and Kristian Gubsch, Co-Founder, Mars Materials joined the engineered materials panel, moderated by Uday Turaga, CEO, ADI Analytics. Discussion centered around high-performance polymers in automotive applications. Steady across EVs and combustion engines was discussed. Additionally, they talked about high-performance polymers in automotive applications. Asia led […]
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At the 2025 ADI Forum, Sachin Sakhalkar, SVP, Teknor Apex, and Kristian Gubsch, Co-Founder, Mars Materials, joined Uday Turaga, CEO, ADI Analytics for the engineered materials panel. During this discussion, the speakers delved into the world of engineered materials. They specifically focused on polymers in the automotive industry and beyond. Key insights included the continued […]
At the 2024 ADI Forum, Uday Turaga, CEO, ADI Chemical Market Resources, highlighted the pivotal role of innovation in the plastics and polymers industry. He presented research demonstrating that innovation and R&D-driven business models consistently led to higher total shareholder returns compared to other strategies. Turaga emphasized that companies excelling in new product development, such […]
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