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Ineos Grangemouth

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…

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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…

Chancellor George Osborne Budget

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…

BP chemicals plant facility

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 used in bioplastics production

Bacteria boost for waste bioplastics

Added: 12 Mar 2014

Bacteria species can enhance the production of bioplastics from waste, according to new research.

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Honeywell tops automation sales

Added: 10 Mar 2014

Honeywell recorded the strongest global sales among automation suppliers to the process industries …

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…