All Chemicals
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 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 names Kaeser as new CEO
Added: 31 Jul 2013
Siemens today replaced CEO Peter Loescher with the company’s chief financial officer Joe Kaeser.
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…
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 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 …
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…
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 …
Championing change
Added: 8 Jul 2013
Stan Higgins, director of the North East of England Process Industry Cluster, is on a mission to ch…
Technique set to produce renewable chemicals
Added: 4 Jul 2013
Researchers from Liverpool University have been awarded funding to develop renewable chemicals prod…
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…
Protecting against chemicals
Added: 2 Jul 2013
Ian Samson, training specialist for DuPont, offers his insight into protective equipment for those …
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…
Cleaning up carbon dioxide
Added: 26 Jun 2013
Researchers at MIT have proposed a method that ‘scrubs’ the harmful emissions from fossil-fuel powe…
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’ provide greener power generation
Added: 13 Jun 2013
Polymer molecular sieve membranes, when exposed to UV irradiation, could improve processes such as …
£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.
The REACH initiative gains further approval
Added: 29 May 2013
BASF has completed the second phase of registration for REACH under EU chemical law.
'Ultraselective' process creates p-xylene from biomass
Added: 29 May 2013
Chemical engineers have discovered a new process for making p-xylene from biomass.
Process produces hydrogen at lower temperatures
Added: 22 May 2013
Duke University has produced hydrogen with less than 0.002% of carbon monoxide.
