SHIRE has opened the door to a £46bn (US$64bn) takeover bid from Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical.

25th April 2018

Business

P&G agrees to buy Merck’s consumer healthcare business

PROCTER & GAMBLE has agreed to buy German drugmaker Merck’s consumer healthcare unit for €3.4bn (US$4.1bn).

25th April 2018

Research & Development

Clouds defeated: real-time control system boosts solar chemicals production

CHEMICAL engineers have developed a control system costing less than €50 (US$61) that overcomes one of the major obstacles to processing chemicals with light.

24th April 2018

Environment

Finalists announced for carbon capture XPRIZE

TEN finalists have been announced in the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE which is incentivising companies to develop new solutions for capturing CO2 emissions and transforming them to useful products.

23rd April 2018

Unilever joins forces with Ioniqa to scale up breakthrough plastic waste recycling process

UNILEVER has formed a partnership with processing pioneer Ioniqa and Indorama, the world’s largest producer of PET resin, to scale up a technology that converts plastic waste back into virgin feedstock.

6th April 2018

Energy

A Battery Olympics

Getting around the limitations of battery devices with clever ways of teaming different technologies together. Hugh Sutherland, Head of Development at ZapGo speaks to Neil Clark

IChemE

Who will lead IChemE in 2018?

Introducing your nominees for IChemE’s 2018 trustee vacancies

IChemE

Conversation is Key

Shape chemical engineering and the Institution through Interface

Chemical Engineers Who Changed the World

People

Keith Bingham Quinan and colleagues – An explosive start

2015 marks the centenary of the Great Shell Crisis of World War I (WWI), in which the British Army was running short of munitions. The subsequent scaling up of the supply of high explosives and propellants became a major achievement of the embryonic chemical engineering profession under the leadership of Kenneth Bingham Quinan.

People

George E Davis – Meet the Daddy

For a series called Chemical Engineers who Changed the World, it would be downright rude not to feature the man who is widely regarded as the founding father of the discipline and the spiritual father of IChemE.