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Ineos Grangemouth

Funding for Grangemouth CCS

Added: 27 Mar 2015

The UK and Scottish governments today announced joint funding for a proposed Carbon Capture and Sto…

Nestle apprenctice at work Jordan Phillips

Faltering fightback

Added: 25 Mar 2015

Much was made by George Osborne in last week’s budget about an apparent renaissance in UK manufactu…

Chocolate manufacturing plant

Manufacturing orders fall, says CBI

Added: 24 Mar 2015

Manufacturers’ order book levels have fallen this month, according to a survey by the CBI.

Buncefield fire

Safety: a ticking timebomb

Added: 11 Mar 2015

Later this year the process industry will mark an anniversary it would prefer to forget: 10 years s…

Buncefield2

Process safety: barely begun

Added: 11 Mar 2015

Ten years on from the Buncefield explosion, only small steps have been taken to establish a process…

Ineos Upstream chief executive Gary Haywood

Ineos acquires IGas shale sites

Added: 10 Mar 2015

Ineos has today announced a deal to acquire a 50% interest in seven IGas shale gas licences in the …

BASF plastics research

BASF carbon-fibre plastics study ends

Added: 9 Mar 2015

New processes and techniques for manufacturing thermoplastics strengthened by carbon fibres have be…

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Prized profession

Added: 4 Mar 2015

The biggest prize you can win as an engineer is the chance to positively impact the lives of billio…

Chocolate manufacturing plant

Manchester launches manufacturing strategy

Added: 2 Mar 2015

Advanced materials, chemicals and food & drink processing are all set to play a role in a strategy …

BP chemicals plant facility

Growth boost for chemicals firm

Added: 25 Feb 2015

Chemoxy, a speciality chemicals manufacturer based in Teesside, has been granted £20 million in fun…

Manufacturing Barometer

Manufacturers to boost technology spend

Added: 24 Feb 2015

More than half of all small and medium sized (SME) manufacturers in England are planning to invest …

Robert Langer

Follow your heart, says prize winner

Added: 5 Feb 2015

Winner of the 2015 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Robert Langer has advised students to foll…

Stan Higgins

Gone from the wind – industrial CCS

Added: 4 Feb 2015

Almost half of the emissions that need to be captured to battle climate change come from the proces…

Robert Langer

Chemical engineer wins Queen's prize

Added: 3 Feb 2015

Chemical engineer and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Robert Langer has today…

Biofuel processing

Biofuel processing 'improved'

Added: 27 Jan 2015

Researchers at the University of Minnesota and Rice University have developed a computational scree…

Teesside process industry cluster CCS

Teesside industrial CCS plan launched

Added: 26 Jan 2015

Firms including BOC and Amec Foster Wheeler gathered in Westminster yesterday to launch their plans…

Intertek lab

Petroleum testing lab reopens after flood

Added: 20 Jan 2015

Product testing firm Intertek has reopened its Immingham Docks Laboratory after a tidal surge and w…

Students in the design phase of their degrees

Investment boost for engineering talent

Added: 15 Jan 2015

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is investing £1.2 million in up and coming engi…

money trees skills wealth

A wealth of opportunity

Added: 14 Jan 2015

Chemical engineering graduates earn some of the best salaries in the country. But does this stop th…

SIHI Isochem modular chemical pump

Flowserve buys Dutch pump manufacturer

Added: 8 Jan 2015

Pumps and valves manufacturer Flowserve yesterday confirmed it had completed its acquisition the Ne…