All Chemicals
Does industrial growth really matter?
Added: 5 Mar 2014
Over the past month or so we have heard a great deal from our political leaders about how passionat…
ExxonMobil licenses InteliRed
Added: 5 Mar 2014
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company has awarded the first commercial license for its InteliRed rem…
Fracking fallout
Added: 4 Mar 2014
The future for Europe’s refineries and petrochemicals plants looks bleak thanks to the US shale gas…
Sailing home
Added: 4 Mar 2014
Are manufacturers really returning to the UK, and are they doing so in the process industries?
MRI could improve chemical plant efficiency
Added: 4 Mar 2014
Chemical reactors could be far more energy-efficient if Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) was used a…
Manufacturing employment accelerates
Added: 4 Mar 2014
Growth in manufacturing jobs is now at its fastest rate since May 2011, according to a survey publi…
Industry pushes for Budget energy discounts
Added: 3 Mar 2014
Manufacturing organisations are calling on Chancellor George Osborne to roll back the cost of vario…
Shale sparks US chemicals boom
Added: 26 Feb 2014
Potential chemicals industry investment in new projects linked to shale gas extraction has passed $…
Efficiency evangelists needed to fight cuts
Added: 18 Feb 2014
A combination of government funding cuts to support for energy efficiency measures and waning inter…
Systems must drive engineering degrees
Added: 18 Feb 2014
Former IChemE president Sir William Wakeham calls for the process systems community to take a great…
If China falls, will the UK rise?
Added: 17 Feb 2014
The BBC tomorrow airs a programme investigating the dangerously-high levels of debt sustaining Chin…
Homeward bound
Added: 12 Feb 2014
If, like me, you watched this weekend’s episode of the BBC show Top Gear, you would have seen their…
Interlink establishes UK base
Added: 12 Feb 2014
US human machine interface (HMI) and sensor technology firm Interlink Electronics has announced it …
Cuadrilla targets Blackpool shale sites
Added: 4 Feb 2014
Shale oil & gas developer Cuadrilla today announced plans for exploration at two new sites near Bla…
“Reshore UK” scheme launched
Added: 31 Jan 2014
The Government has launched a new “one-stop-shop” service to help manufacturing firms return produc…
Shale vital for “reshoring” says PM
Added: 24 Jan 2014
Prime Minister David Cameron today told world leaders gathered in Switzerland that development of s…
UK and European chemicals firms suffer over energy costs
Added: 21 Jan 2014
From building shale gas import terminals to shutting down production plants, the cost of energy is …
The year ahead
Added: 15 Jan 2014
Happy New Year. It looks as though 2014 is, like last year, going to be a year where energy dominat…
Shell confirms tank fire
Added: 10 Jan 2014
Shell today confirmed that a storage tank at its Cologne-Godorf site in Germany caught fire yesterd…
Explosion at Shell refinery
Added: 9 Jan 2014
German media is reporting an explosion at Shell Chemical’s Cologne-Godorf refinery.