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Cell adhesion

Biofactories of the future

Added: 7 Aug 2013

Scaling-up synthetic biology from the lab bench to the process plant presents both challenges and o…

Invensys control room

Threat to Schneider's Invensys takeover

Added: 2 Aug 2013

Schneider’s proposed £3.4 billion takeover of Invensys is still under threat of being beaten by a b…

Bara PPMA Robot2

Process automation market to hit $124bn

Added: 1 Aug 2013

Revenues in the global process automation market are expected to grow at a rate of over 6% per year…

Schneider CEO Jean-Pascal Tricoire 2

Schneider acquires Invensys for £3.4bn

Added: 31 Jul 2013

UK-based Invensys today accepted an offer from France’s Schneider Electric to acquire the company f…

Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser

Siemens names Kaeser as new CEO

Added: 31 Jul 2013

Siemens today replaced CEO Peter Loescher with the company’s chief financial officer Joe Kaeser.

Ener-G landfill2

Lords probe waste and the bioeconomy

Added: 26 Jul 2013

The House of Lords’ Science and Technology Committee yesterday launched an inquiry into waste and t…

Shell prelude FLNG3

Oil majors partner IChemE on safety

Added: 25 Jul 2013

Leading oil firms including Shell and ExxonMobil have signed up to become the first industry partne…

DuPont

DuPont may sell performance chemicals arm

Added: 25 Jul 2013

US giant DuPont yesterday announced it was consider the sale or spinning-off of all or part of its …

Phthaloyl Peroxide Crab

Reaction cuts chemical production costs

Added: 25 Jul 2013

Experts at the University of Texas at Austin (UTA) believe they have discovered an organic reaction…

Chemicals processing 1

First rise for manufacturing orders in a year

Added: 24 Jul 2013

New orders in the UK’s manufacturing sector rose in the three months to July for the first time in …

Stan Higgins

Championing change

Added: 8 Jul 2013

Stan Higgins, director of the North East of England Process Industry Cluster, is on a mission to ch…

Dr Lopez-Sanchez

Technique set to produce renewable chemicals

Added: 4 Jul 2013

Researchers from Liverpool University have been awarded funding to develop renewable chemicals prod…

Fertiliser plant, West, Texas

Are we learning the lessons?

Added: 3 Jul 2013

The process sectors need to take on-board the lessons learned from recent disasters. Patrick Raleig…

DuPont Tychem coveralls

Protecting against chemicals

Added: 2 Jul 2013

Ian Samson, training specialist for DuPont, offers his insight into protective equipment for those …

Shale gas fracking

Does hydrofracking contaminate water?

Added: 1 Jul 2013

A study led by experts at Duke University has found that those living near shale gas wells are at r…

Electrochemical emissions reduction

Cleaning up carbon dioxide

Added: 26 Jun 2013

Researchers at MIT have proposed a method that ‘scrubs’ the harmful emissions from fossil-fuel powe…

Sadara project bidding scheme

Export agency backs British bidding

Added: 26 Jun 2013

The UK Export Finance has announced a guarantee of £450 million to companies bidding for Saudi Arab…

Molecular sieves

Molecular ‘sieves’ provide greener power generation

Added: 13 Jun 2013

Polymer molecular sieve membranes, when exposed to UV irradiation, could improve processes such as …

CCS crop22

£3.25m funding aims to speed up CCS development

Added: 10 Jun 2013

EPSRC-funded research will look into how carbon dioxide can be stored underground.

Chemicals processing 1

The REACH initiative gains further approval

Added: 29 May 2013

BASF has completed the second phase of registration for REACH under EU chemical law.