Tackling a chemical supply shortage

There’s an old saying: ‘If I had some ham, I could make a ham and eggs, if I had some eggs.’ In the chemical industry, the same is true: in order to do chemistry, if you have the reactor space and the time, you have to have the chemicals: the starting materials, the reagents and the solvent. Without any one of those items you can’t do chemistry, you can’t make products to be sold and you can’t bill your customers, so you might as well stay home.