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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…

BP chemicals plant facility

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…

Chemical Plant

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…

Cuadrilla shale site

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…

Chemical Plant

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 …

Kurt Bock

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…

Chemical Plant

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…

Centralised control room

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 …

Fertiliser plant, West, Texas

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…