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Drax Power Plant 2

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…

Chemicals processing 1

ExxonMobil licenses InteliRed

Added: 5 Mar 2014

ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company has awarded the first commercial license for its InteliRed rem…

Ineos Grangemouth

Fracking fallout

Added: 4 Mar 2014

The future for Europe’s refineries and petrochemicals plants looks bleak thanks to the US shale gas…

David Cameron World Economic Forum Davos 2014

Sailing home

Added: 4 Mar 2014

Are manufacturers really returning to the UK, and are they doing so in the process industries?

Chemical Plant

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…

Nestle apprenctice at work Jordan Phillips

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…

Chancellor George Osborne Budget

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 fracking

Shale sparks US chemicals boom

Added: 26 Feb 2014

Potential chemicals industry investment in new projects linked to shale gas extraction has passed $…

BP chemicals plant facility

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…

Sir William Wakeham

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…

BP chemicals plant facility

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…

Chemical Plant

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…

Cutting the cord

Interlink establishes UK base

Added: 12 Feb 2014

US human machine interface (HMI) and sensor technology firm Interlink Electronics has announced it …

Cuadrilla shale site

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…

Vince Cable

“Reshore UK” scheme launched

Added: 31 Jan 2014

The Government has launched a new “one-stop-shop” service to help manufacturing firms return produc…

David Cameron World Economic Forum Davos 2014

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…

Ineos Grangemouth

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 …

Cuadrilla shale site

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 Cologne Godorf explosion

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…

Shell Cologne Godorf explosion

Explosion at Shell refinery

Added: 9 Jan 2014

German media is reporting an explosion at Shell Chemical’s Cologne-Godorf refinery.