GOVERNMENT progress in supporting the UK’s declining chemicals sector has been praised by industry figures, although one ...

THE UK will align its chemicals regulation with EU rules unless “very exceptional circumstances” require otherwise, ...

JAPANESE conglomerate Fujifilm is set to close its electronic materials manufacturing plant in Alfreton, Derbyshire by the ...

Equinor has struck a deal with Dutch-owned Eneco to supply natural gas from the Norwegian continental shelf to the German ...

NORTH AMERICAN materials company Orbia is set to open a first-of-its-kind graphite recycling pilot plant in the UK, tapping ...

HYDROGEN will make up 2% of Spain’s gas supply after grid operator Enagás awarded network capacity to 35 renewable hydrogen ...

SOUTH KOREAN industrial giant Hyosung is ramping up production of the sugarcane-based 1,4-Butanediol (Bio-BDO) at its new ...

SOUTH EAST WATER chair Chris Train and CEO David Hinton have resigned following intense criticism over the company’s handling ...

Geoff Maitland looks back on the Gulf of Mexico oilspill, ten years ago this month 20 April 2010 was to be a special day for the rig and crew of Deepwater Horizon, Transocean’s semi-submersible ...

The investigation into the Piper Alpha disaster has much to teach us thirty years on. Most of the physical evidence sank to the bottom of the North Sea, so the testimony of survivors and witnesses had ...

Scale-up is hard-wired into chemical engineering, with one textbook even claiming it is the profession's raison d’etre. Jamie Cleaver looks at the principles of scale-up from an equipment-based ...

Fulcrum BioEnergy shut down its flagship waste-to-fuel plant in May. Alex Howard looks at the implications for the waste gasification industry, and how other first-of-a-kind developers can reassure ...