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Does industrial growth really matter?
Added: 5 Mar 2014
Over the past month or so we have heard a great deal from our political leaders about how passionat…
If China falls, will the UK rise?
Added: 17 Feb 2014
The BBC tomorrow airs a programme investigating the dangerously-high levels of debt sustaining Chin…
Homeward bound
Added: 12 Feb 2014
If, like me, you watched this weekend’s episode of the BBC show Top Gear, you would have seen their…
The year ahead
Added: 15 Jan 2014
Happy New Year. It looks as though 2014 is, like last year, going to be a year where energy dominat…
Energy & the global game
Added: 18 Dec 2013
At this time of Christmas Carols, there is a growing chorus of chemicals company bosses crying out …
Lunch with the BASF boss
Added: 27 Nov 2013
Last Friday I headed down to Mayfair to meet BASF chairman Kurt Bock, who over lunch gave me a fasc…
Avoiding blackouts…at any cost?
Added: 13 Nov 2013
Yesterday I was speaking to Dr John Roberts, who chaired the Royal Academy of Engineering group tha…
Control rooms play catch-up
Added: 5 Nov 2013
They are present in most households and even my three-year old can operate one, so why are process …
Are we learning the lessons?
Added: 3 Jul 2013
The process sectors need to take on-board the lessons learned from recent disasters. Patrick Raleig…
Chemical industry realities not part of EU's flowery vision
Added: 17 Oct 2012
London – The world will, sooner rather than later, live in ecologically-sound harmony with higher p…
Energy Bill: When the chips are down
Added: 31 May 2012
Well done to the UK’s chip shop owners, who have managed to fight off a tax hike on hot takeaway fo…
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