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INEOS to close PVC facility in UK, sells fluorochemicals business

Added: 25 Feb 2010

Grangemouth, UK - INEOS ChlorVinyls is to close its PVC production facility in Barry, Wales and con…

Apprenticeships paying off in chemicals industries

Added: 9 Feb 2010

London – The Chemical Industries Association (CIA) is highlighting how apprenticeships have had a c…

Record demand for chemical engineering degree courses

Added: 25 Jan 2010

London – A record number of students have opted to study chemical engineering at UK universities th…

INEOS diverts German-bound chemicals salt to de-ice UK roads

Added: 11 Jan 2010

Runcorn, UK – Chemicals maker INEOS is diverting thousands of tonnes of salt bound for industrial u…

Pentagon Chemicals secures £2m from Government SME fund

Added: 17 Dec 2009

London - North West chemicals company Pentagon Chemicals has secured a £2 million from the Enterpri…

UK chemicals maker trains Iraqi weapons inspectors

Added: 23 Nov 2009

Knowsley, UK - A team of 10 Iraqi delegates have visited Contract Chemicals Ltd’s Knowsley site as …

Transport Phenomena in Electrochemical Processes

Added: 5 Nov 2009

Venue/Location: von Karman Institute, Belgium

Date: 30/11/09 to 04/12/09

Join the high level lecture …

£30m chemical engineering facility for Manchester

Added: 10 Sep 2009

University of Manchester to establish state-of-the-art facility for its School of Chemical Engineer…

Warning over tanks for chemicals, water, wastewater

Added: 2 Sep 2009

Tanks for use in the chemical storage and processing and the water & waste treatment industries mus…

Lanxess upgrades safety at German chemicals plant

Added: 5 Aug 2009

Upgrade to existing HIMA ESD (emergency shutdown) system at its hexane oxidation plant in the Krefe…

McKinsey: Chemicals industry delivers 2:1 emissions savings

Added: 8 Jul 2009

Industry cuts twice as many greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as it emits and has an abatement potenti…

Chemicals industry award winners

Added: 1 Jul 2009

Steve Elliott, chief executive of the CIA, said:, “This year’s quality of entries reflects the outs…

UK chemicals firm defies the gloom

Added: 26 Jun 2009

Brotherton Speciality Products investing Euro4.5 million to establish a new sulphite production fac…

European chemicals majors unveil factory of the future

Added: 10 Jun 2009

European chemistry consortium advances new production concept. Bayer Technology Services GmbH coord…

CIA announces Chemical Industry Awards shortlist

Added: 8 Jun 2009

Finalists chosen from a record number of entries for the Chemical Industry Awards. The winner of t…

European chemicals industry to recover in 2010

Added: 8 Jun 2009

Cefic: "Most sectors of the European chemicals industry seem to have reached the bottom, after a st…

Sun Chemical starts up UK printing ink facility

Added: 3 Jun 2009

Design, installation and comissioning work for the new facility was carried out by Ai Process Syste…

Chemical accidents at record low

Added: 14 May 2009

A 40% fall in Lost Time Accidents is the lowest figure ever recorded by CBA and, it said, “sets a b…

Chemicals Northwest alert over chemical imports move

Added: 11 May 2009

EU proposing to allow a further 80 chemicals into Europe, free of duty, with effect from 1 Jan 2010…

Chemicals industry drive to bio feedstock

Added: 18 Mar 2009

Move to renewable feedstock base is accelerating due to increasing prices of non-renewable feedsto…