All Materials
Smart plastics to ‘sense’ equipment failure
Added: 14 Jul 2016
Igus, a German developer of specialist plastics, has unveiled new products to add Industry 4.0 capa…
Graduate innovators given helping hand
Added: 13 Jul 2016
The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) has awarded four enterprise fellowships to graduate entrep…
UK Steel unveils Brexit blueprint
Added: 8 Jul 2016
UK Steel has published a Brexit manifesto outlining measures the government should consider to aver…
Brexit branded a ‘gamble’ for UK manufacturing
Added: 22 Jun 2016
The head of the national trade union centre (TUC) and the chief of Britain’s manufacturing employer…
BASF splashes $3.2bn on Chemetall
Added: 21 Jun 2016
BASF has bought a German-based surface treatment business from US specialty chemicals company, Albe…
‘Brexit’ no silver bullet warns UK Steel
Added: 16 Jun 2016
The director of UK Steel, Gareth Stace, said this week that Britain would be better able to prevent…
Crystal ‘clears up’ nuclear waste
Added: 13 Jun 2016
Researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the US have discovered a n…
SABIC joins Teesside carbon capture collective
Added: 9 Jun 2016
Teesside Collective has added another industrial heavyweight to its group of companies working to d…
Tata Steel completes sale of European unit
Added: 1 Jun 2016
Tata Steel UK has announced completion of the sale of its Long Products Europe business to Greybull…
New IChemE president to redraw strategy
Added: 31 May 2016
The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) will undergo a thorough review of governance and str…
Collaborative group proposes natural carbon use
Added: 19 Apr 2016
Academics and industry representatives have joined forces to develop a new model for decarbonisatio…
UK government considers stake in steel
Added: 12 Apr 2016
Business secretary Sajid Javid said the government was ready to ‘co-invest’ in the ailing steel ind…
Ministers meet to discuss steel sale
Added: 6 Apr 2016
Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne have met with a number of Welsh politici…
Researchers make ‘liquid-like’ materials breakthrough
Added: 4 Apr 2016
A study undertaken at the University of Chicago reveals how liquid-like materials can change into a…
Process safety: smart enclosures
Rob Smith | Added: 4 Apr 2016
Materials specification and innovative design are modernising the enclosures market, writes Robert …
Tata Steel to consider 'all options' for UK business
Added: 30 Mar 2016
Tata Steel announced today it would "explore all options” for its loss-making UK business, which co…
The right chemistry
Louisa Hearn | Added: 24 Mar 2016
When reporters in the mainstream media write about chemicals, it’s often for all the wrong reasons.…
Scientists target PET plastic puzzle
Added: 17 Mar 2016
Researchers around the world are inching closer to halting the environmental damage caused by the p…
Crunch time for ailing steel sector
Added: 16 Feb 2016
A campaign to tackle the threats posed by the influx of cheap Chinese steel into Europe was launche…
Calibration: Field factors
Added: 22 Jan 2016
The case for calibrating equipment in either a workshop or the field is not always black and white,…
