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Steve Elliott

Vote for chemicals

Added: 30 Sep 2014

As the prospect of a general election looms on the horizon, Chemical Industries Association chief e…

Oil & gas facility showing pipework

Siemens buys Dresser-Rand for $7.6bn

Added: 22 Sep 2014

Siemens today announced it was acquiring Dresser-Rand for $7.6 billion (£4.6bn) and aimed to become…

Karl-Ludwig Kley

Merck buys Sigma-Aldrich for £10bn

Added: 22 Sep 2014

Pharma and chemicals giant Merck has agreed to buy life sciences firm Sigma-Aldrich for approximate…

Blu Tack Bostik Total Arkema

Arkema plans Total adhesives takeover

Added: 19 Sep 2014

Total today announced it had received a €1.74 billion (£1.36bn) bid from French chemicals giant Ark…

Saltire Union Jack Scottish independence

For oil’s sake?

Added: 16 Sep 2014

If Scottish independence is about oil, then the truth is that Scotland has missed the boat. Thursda…

Energy saving

National Grid awards “shutdown” contracts

Added: 11 Sep 2014

National Grid is in the process of awarding contracts to major energy users such as process facilit…

Saltire Union Jack Scottish independence - credit Lawrence OP

Engineers against Scottish independence

Added: 9 Sep 2014

More than 60% of chemical engineers in Scotland will vote against independence, a new survey has re…

Cat Pumps model 5CP pump skid installed at Promethean Particles’ pilot-scale reactor

Pumping out particles

Added: 3 Sep 2014

UK nanoparticle manufacturer is scaling-up its production capabilities.

Stan Higgins

Integration or bust

Added: 3 Sep 2014

The UK’s chemical industry may be sleepwalking into further decline due to the lack of industry lea…

Siemens Congleton drives plant

Energy efficiency spend to rise, says Siemens

Added: 3 Sep 2014

More than two thirds of UK manufacturers are planning to increase investment in energy management o…

Chemical Compounds

Industry slams EU nano register

Added: 7 Aug 2014

EU proposals to create a new register for nanomaterials were today criticised by the UK chemical in…

University Technical Colleges Skills

New colleges focus on engineering

Added: 6 Aug 2014

Five of the seven new University Technical Colleges (UTCs) announced by chancellor George Osborne y…

Chocolate manufacturing plant

Increased production squeezes innovation

Added: 4 Aug 2014

Manufacturers’ spending on innovation is slowing as firms attempt to manage rising output levels, a…

Plastic bags

Scientists enhance bioplastics process

Added: 30 Jul 2014

Food waste method could dramatically enhance the way bioplastics are developed, new research sugges…

Experion Orion console  DCS control system

Innovation spend hits 25-year high

Added: 23 Jul 2014

The number of manufacturers planning to invest in product and process innovation is at its highest …

Nestle apprenctice at work Jordan Phillips

Foreign investment up in process sectors

Added: 21 Jul 2014

Nearly a fifth of all foreign investment in the UK is going to projects in the process sectors, acc…

Ineos Grangemouth

Grangemouth LNG wins guarantee

Added: 17 Jul 2014

Ineos has received a £230 million loan guarantee from the government to support the financing of it…

David Willetts

Process champions moved in reshuffle

Added: 15 Jul 2014

Two key allies of the process industries were today removed from their posts by Prime Minister Davi…

Copyright: Sulzer. Sulzer test bed for submersible pumps in Leeds, UK

Submersible pumps to hit £11bn

Added: 14 Jul 2014

The value of the global submersible pump market is likely to reach $18.9 billion (£11 billion) by 2…

Biomass

Biomass pre-processing study launches

Added: 11 Jul 2014

The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) today launched a programme assessing the impact of pre-proc…