‘I was regarded as someone who would never amount to much’, says IChemE Fellow awarded MBE
Bottling it at the World Cup
Engineering the Perfect Pitch
June 2026 Issue 1020
ESSO has been fined £1m (US$1.32m) for an uncontrolled release of liquid petroleum gas (LPG) at its Fawley refinery in the UK – a penalty one leading process safety expert has dismissed as "the thickness of a pencil" for a company the size of ExxonMobil.
TATA Steel is to transfer staff from Port Talbot to a site around 64 km away in Llanwern after fire damaged part of the Port Talbot steelworks’ cold mill earlier this month.
OFFSHORE drilling rig contractor Valaris has received its tenth UK safety warning in less than five years, while one of its subsidiaries has been fined following the death of a worker on a North Sea rig in 2023.
IChemE Fellow Peter Robertson has been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours this week for “services to research and innovation” following a 40-year career in academia across Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Martin Pitt describes how clay transformed human history
AS IChemE continues to evolve and grow, the TCE team found ourselves reflecting on what the magazine has meant to members over the years and how it has informed, entertained and developed.
Refrigerants are essential for the modern food industry. Aniqah Majid looks at the substances keeping food cool – and their climate impact
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.
Trevor Kletz, the father of inherent safety, explains his remarkable career
Claudia Flavell-While explores the contribution of separation scientist Csaba Horváth
