All Pharma & Bio

Telstar to host technical conference
Added: 12 Jun 2013
Organised by ISPE Spain, the conference will discuss sterile manufacturing and its associated proce…

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…

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…

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…

The new reality
Added: 8 May 2013
Dow boss Andrew Liveris sees a potentially bright future for the UK’s chemical and pharmaceuticals …

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 to showcase at Interphex 2013
Added: 3 Apr 2013
A pre-engineered Modular Aseptic Solution (MAS) for manufacturing of small-volume parenterals devel…

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…

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…

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…
Processing butyric acid from biomass
Added: 26 Oct 2012
Researchers at Luleå University of Technology (LTU) will test production of butyric acid from bioma…

Oxygen sensor for safer pharma, chemicals operations
Added: 12 Oct 2012
London – Pharmaceuticals and speciality chemicals are typically produced in batches by mixing sever…

Telstar to build two pharma plants
Added: 9 Oct 2012
Barcelona, Spain - Telstar will direct the full execution of two new pharmaceutical plants for the …

Eni to convert Venice refinery into bio-refinery
Added: 26 Sep 2012
Venice, Italy – Eni is investing Euro100 million to convert its Venice refinery to produce only bio…

Bayer CropScience to invest Euro7bn
Added: 20 Sep 2012
Monheim, Germany - Bayer CropScience (BCS) has unveiled plans to invest Euro7 billion between 2011 …

Burning matters
Added: 14 Sep 2012
Converting coal plants to burn biomass has tested the ingenuity of process engineers. Patrick Ralei…

Biofuel waste recycled for electricity
Added: 7 Sep 2012
Distillers Dried Grain with Solubles (DDGS) is a waste product from bioethanol production that is c…

TEG secures £21m for AD plant
Added: 3 Sep 2012
Organic waste group TEG has secured funding to construct a £21m waste facility at East London’s Dag…

Waste oil cuts cost of bioplastics
Added: 3 Sep 2012
‘Bioplastics’ that are naturally synthesised by microbes could be made commercially viable by using…