... a large scale. The conversion of glycerol into other building block chemicals is of interest because glycerol is otherwise hard to ... dispose of. Dow and Solvay are building glycerol-to-epichlorohydrin (GTE) plants in Shanghai and Thailand, ... synthesisEpichlorohydrin is mainly converted to bisphenol A diglycidyl ether, a building block in the manufacture of epoxy resins. It is also ...