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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…

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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 chemicals plant

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 …

Drax Power Plant

Burning matters

Added: 14 Sep 2012

Converting coal plants to burn biomass has tested the ingenuity of process engineers. Patrick Ralei…

A lab-scale microbial fuel cell

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…

AD

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…

cooking oil

Waste oil cuts cost of bioplastics

Added: 3 Sep 2012

‘Bioplastics’ that are naturally synthesised by microbes could be made commercially viable by using…