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UK has “no choice” over shale gas
Added: 28 Mar 2014
The UK public must support shale oil and gas development if some of the country’s key industries ar…

Ineos sues Sinopec over carbon fibre secrets
Added: 21 Mar 2014
Chemical company Ineos is suing Chinese oil major Sinopec and subsidiaries for misuse of trade secr…

Budget: £7bn energy deal for industry
Added: 19 Mar 2014
Chancellor George Osborne today used his annual Budget to announce a package of measures to help en…

Chemicals industry renews budget plea
Added: 18 Mar 2014
The chemicals industry has renewed its calls for Chancellor George Osborne to cut the cost of energ…

Bacteria boost for waste bioplastics
Added: 12 Mar 2014
Bacteria species can enhance the production of bioplastics from waste, according to new research.

Honeywell tops automation sales
Added: 10 Mar 2014
Honeywell recorded the strongest global sales among automation suppliers to the process industries …

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…