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Chocolate manufacturing plant

Maintaining a controlled diet

Added: 29 Jul 2013

Controlled diet Sensor technology is a critical component in many food production processes.

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…

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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 …

Biochar

Biomass charcoal promises soil cleaning solution

Added: 16 Jul 2013

Former industrial land polluted with chemicals and heavy metals could be cleaned up for reuse by ch…

Fully automated molecular farming facility

Fully automated molecular farming

Added: 28 Jun 2013

A team of researchers from Fraunhofer have constructed a GMP compliant plant factory for bio-vaccin…

Chemicals processing 1

Waste-whiskey in the driving seat

Added: 20 Jun 2013

A Scottish biofuel group believes it is possible to convert waste whiskey into clean, renewable bio…

Telstar

Telstar to host technical conference

Added: 12 Jun 2013

Organised by ISPE Spain, the conference will discuss sterile manufacturing and its associated proce…

FMD seminar at Total 2013

Seminar to outline FMD requirements

Added: 15 May 2013

The need for pharmaceutical manufacturers to act now in order to meet the requirements of the EU Fa…

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Algorithm isolates attacks on control systems

Added: 15 May 2013

US researchers have developed an algorithm that detects and isolates attacks on networked control s…

Fluid flow

Method simplifies fluid flow design

Added: 9 May 2013

UCLA engineers have developed a way to shape fluid flow through pipes without the need to solve com…

Andrew Liveris - Dow

The new reality

Added: 8 May 2013

Dow boss Andrew Liveris sees a potentially bright future for the UK’s chemical and pharmaceuticals …

Fertilser plant Texas

Fertiliser plant explosion - Texas

Added: 18 Apr 2013

London - Believed at this time to be an industrial accident, an explosion at a fertiliser plant in …

Telstar

Telstar to showcase at Interphex 2013

Added: 3 Apr 2013

A pre-engineered Modular Aseptic Solution (MAS) for manufacturing of small-volume parenterals devel…

Biofuel

Choosing steels for the biofuels industry

Added: 20 Nov 2012

Stainless steel is a material of choice for many applications in bioethanol, biodiesel and biogas p…

Lab

Resurrected process can convert sugar directly to diesel (Comment)

Added: 19 Nov 2012

Berkeley, California - A long-abandoned fermentation process, once used to turn starch into explosi…

GSK process is year's top advance

Added: 3 Nov 2012

London – GlaxoSmithKline has taken top prize in the IChemE 2012 Awards for a process technology tha…

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UK aims to be more pharma-friendly

Added: 26 Oct 2012

London – The UK government has launched a new consultation, which sets out proposals to make the c…

Acid from biomass

Processing butyric acid from biomass

Added: 26 Oct 2012

Researchers at Luleå University of Technology (LTU) will test production of butyric acid from bioma…

Lab

Oxygen sensor for safer pharma, chemicals operations

Added: 12 Oct 2012

London – Pharmaceuticals and speciality chemicals are typically produced in batches by mixing sever…