All Pharma & Bio

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…

Teaching microbes to produce fuel
Added: 29 Aug 2012
Scientists at MIT have modified the soil bacterium, Ralstonia Eutropha, to turn carbon dioxide or w…

Research to investigate impact of biofuel processes
Added: 23 Aug 2012
Aston University Bioenergy Research Group (BERG) has been awarded £424,000 of research funds, as pa…

BASF, Cargill and Novozymes in biotech advance
Added: 20 Aug 2012
London – BASF, Cargill and Novozymes have signed an agreement to develop technologies to produce ac…

Engineer sans frontiers
Added: 17 Aug 2012
When process engineers apply their skills to other fields, remarkable results can be achieved. Elli…

Reusing co-streams from fish and oil plant processing
Added: 13 Aug 2012
Researchers are developing together new ways of using the substantial co-streams from fish and oil …