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Plan to add 3,000 jobs at former Pfizer site
Added: 7 Nov 2012
Sandwich, UK - Discovery Park Ltd has announced plans to potentially generate 3,000 new jobs by 201…
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…
Smart filter strains oil out of water
Added: 1 Nov 2012
Researchers at Michigan University have developed a smart filter with a shape-shifting surface that…
UK shortlists candidates for £1bn CCS fund
Added: 31 Oct 2012
London – The government has revealed the four bidders to have been shortlisted for the next phase o…
Hitachi buys UK's Horizon nuclear project
Added: 30 Oct 2012
Japan’s Hitachi has signed a £700m deal to buy Horizon Nuclear Power from Germany’s E.On and RWE.
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Shale gas hits US butadiene production
Added: 30 Oct 2012
New York - The relatively recent and intense exploitation of US natural gas reserves is resulting i…
Skills Show signs up Dragons' Den star
Added: 30 Oct 2012
London – Theo Paphitis - star of BBC Two TV’s Dragons’ Den and one of the UK’s most high profile sh…
AMEC for UK nuclear lab project
Added: 30 Oct 2012
London - AMEC has been awarded a five-year contract by the UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) f…
AMSilk advances 'Spidersilk' process
Added: 30 Oct 2012
Planegg, Germany - German technology company AMSilk has achieved a large-scale production validatio…
UK against mandatory reporting of cyber attacks
Added: 26 Oct 2012
London – The UK government will, next year, launch a collaborative initiative with industry to help…
EC to investigate Pembroke power plant approval
Added: 26 Oct 2012
London – The European Commission has launched an investigation into the UK Government’s approval of…
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…
Pores in graphene could lead to better membranes
Added: 25 Oct 2012
Researchers from MIT Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have discovered tiny pores in graphene th…
Green light for £1.6bn North Sea project
Added: 24 Oct 2012
London - The UK government has approved a Talisman Energy project that, it says, will extend the li…
Chemical-enzymatic process makes use of vegetable oil
Added: 24 Oct 2012
The Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes in Leuna has set up pilot plant to pr…
Modelling secure CO2 storage
Added: 24 Oct 2012
Numerical Rocks AS, a small Norwegian company, has been studying how carbon dioxide moves and becom…
Using paper to clean up oil spills
Added: 23 Oct 2012
A project in Slovenia is hoping to transform papermill sludge into an absorbent capable of cleaning…
Shell's Fram field given go-ahead
Added: 22 Oct 2012
The government has today given Shell approval for an oil and gas development that will add 2% to UK…
Saint-Gobain PAM highlights sustainabilty gains
Added: 19 Oct 2012
London – Iron products manufacturer leader Saint-Gobain PAM UK, part of Saint-Gobain, has released …
