The current global landscape presents unique challenges and opportunities for the chemical industry and chemical manufacturers. Lubrizol, a leading global specialty chemicals company headquartered in Ohio, is at the forefront of innovation to advance chemistry in our modern world. This review will cover how Lubrizol is navigating the current environment and discuss how trends such as local-for-local regionalization, sustainability, modular chemical process intensification, adoption of advanced modeling (AI), and others are changing how engineers must work. This talk is intended to be a broad overview of the themes and a call to action on the skills required for chemical engineers in the next decade.
