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Europe’s Chemicals Crisis: Xinjiang, Supply Chains and Human Rights
With plants across Europe under pressure, global overcapacity and allegations of forced labour in...
ChemEng Culture: From Hieroglyphics to Hydraulics
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Making a Safe Space for Carbon
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Steel’s New Chapter in the Race to Go Green
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ChemEng Culture: Connecting with Industry
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Golden Touch
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Given Agency
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Cleaning Up Consumer Goods
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INWED 2025: Rebuilding Industry with Waste
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ChemEng Culture – Issue 1008
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ChemEng Culture – Issue 1006
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Rolls-Royce SMR explores nuclear-powered sustainable aviation fuel
ROLLS-ROYCE SMR has signed an agreement with UK nuclear project developer Equilibrion to explore ...
EU proposes Industrial Accelerator Act to protect strategic manufacturing
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed new legislation aimed at protecting domestic manufacturing f...
€1bn green hydrogen project approved in Spain
SPAIN’S largest proposed green hydrogen project has secured a €1bn (US$1.15bn) final investment d...
Ithaca submits plans for Tornado gas field west of Shetland
ITHACA ENERGY has submitted plans to develop the Tornado gas field west of Shetland, targeting fi...
Regulator proposes £22m penalty for ‘consistently underperforming’ South East Water
THE UK water regulator Ofwat has proposed a £22.46m (US$29.9m) fine for South East Water (SEW) ov...
‘Completely preventable’ labelling error caused fatal hydrogen sulfide release at Pemex refinery, CSB finds
MULTIPLE failures led to a “completely preventable” labelling error that caused a fatal release o...
‘Inadequate’ control systems led to 1,700 L solvent spill at Fujifilm UK facility
INADEQUATE control systems led to 1,700 L of flammable solvent spilling onto the floor of a semic...
LIVE: Frank Morton 2026
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MODEC advances fuel cell pilot for floating oil platform
JAPANESE floating oil platform developer MODEC has signed an agreement to scale up its pilot fuel...
Indian government to invest US$2.2bn in CCUS over five years
THE INDIAN government’s latest federal budget has committed US$2.2bn (Rs 20,000 crore) to scale u...
Kellas Midstream fined £175,000 for excessive venting at Teesside gas terminal
KELLAS Midstream has been fined £175,000 (US$239,000) for excessive venting at its CATS gas termi...
Syngenta fined £400,000 for dangerous steam release at UK plant
GLOBAL pesticides manufacturer Syngenta has been fined £400,000 (US$547,000) after pleading guilt...
Antipsychotic drug recalled in UK after manufacturing error leads to overdosing
THE UK medicines regulator has recalled all batches of a specific formulation of an antipsychotic...
Experts welcome UK PFAS plan but questions remain over effectiveness
THE UK government’s plan to tackle per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) has been welcomed b...
Decision to buy Chinese steel for bp Teesside project ‘beggars belief’, UK sector says
UK STEELMAKERS have attacked a decision to award a construction contract to a Chinese steel suppl...
NEO Next’s Piper Bravo platform suspends production following oil spill and valve failure
OPERATORS of the Piper Bravo platform in the UK North Sea have suspended production following a c...
Hibiscus launches CCS study in joint Malaysia-Vietnam oil and gas field
INDEPENDENT Malaysian oil and gas company Hibiscus Petroleum has awarded a contract to assess dep...
UK to reintroduce chief water engineer role after 20-year gap
THE UK government plans to reintroduce a chief engineer at England and Wales’ water regulator as ...
Canada expands CCUS subsidies to oil extraction, drops emissions cap
THE CANADIAN federal government is set to expand subsidies for carbon capture, utilisation and st...
Paul Preece, 1947–2025
Obituary of Paul Preece, a professor of chemical engineering known for his lovable eccentricities...
Support for Mossmorran workers and cuts to offshore wind among Scottish budget measures
THE SCOTTISH government has pledged up to £3m (US$4m) to support workers at ExxonMobil’s Mossmorr...
Mixed progress for AI in decarbonising manufacturing – report
PROGRESS in applying AI to decarbonise manufacturing has been uneven, according to the latest rep...
Regulator rebukes South East Water bosses over ‘sub-optimal’ treatment works
BOSSES at South East Water (SEW) have been recalled to parliament after giving evidence to MPs th...
China fusion reactor breaks theoretical density limit
NUCLEAR physicists have exceeded a long-standing theoretical density limit at an experimental fus...
Phillips 66 to buy idle UK refinery site but will not restart operations
US REFINER Phillips 66 has agreed to buy the site of the Lindsey refinery in Lincolnshire, UK fol...
Ithaca Energy submits plans for two new North Sea wells
SCOTTISH oil and gas company Ithaca Energy has submitted proposals for two new production wells i...
SABIC to sell European and Americas petrochemicals assets, shifting focus to exports
SAUDI state-controlled petrochemical company SABIC has agreed to sell its manufacturing assets in...
Nestlé recalls dozens of baby formula batches across 25 countries after detecting toxin
NESTLE has recalled more than 800 batches of baby formula in 25 countries after detecting traces ...
UK oil companies likely to push for Venezuela involvement, Lord Browne says
UK OIL AND GAS companies are likely lobbying the government to secure a role in redeveloping Vene...
Auditor refuses to approve Wood accounts for year leading up to Sidara takeover
AUDITORS have refused sign-off on Wood’s financial statements for 2024, after the engineering fir...
Long-term solutions and strategic thinking promoted at Shell’s NXplorers Pro event at IChemE HQ
SHELL hosted its two-day NXplorers Pro programme for chemical engineering students at IChemE’s he...
bp scraps plans for Teesside hydrogen plant following row over competing data centre
PLANS for bp’s flagship blue hydrogen production facility in Teesside, UK have been scrapped foll...
Jackdaw downstream emissions to top 23m t CO2e, Shell confirms
GAS EXTRACTED from the Jackdaw gas field in the UK North Sea will be responsible for over 23m tCO...
Heathrow power outage prompts UK government to review substation design
THE UK government has promised to review design standards at critical national infrastructure, in...
ExxonMobil to close Fife ethylene plant within months, putting over 400 jobs at risk
EXXONMOBIL plans to shut its ethylene plant at the Mossmorran complex in Fife, Scotland by Februa...
National Gas secures additional £107m funding for UK hydrogen pipeline network
THE UK’s gas transmission operator has secured £107m (US$141m) of public funding from energy regu...
Wood shareholders vote in favour of £207m Sidara takeover
SHAREHOLDERS at struggling engineering group Wood have approved a takeover by Dubai-based Sidara,...
BECCS pioneers ‘disheartened’ by overreliance on carbon capture amid COP30 climate talks
TWO SCIENTISTS who helped pioneer the concept of net negative CO2 emissions through bioenergy wit...
ADNOC’s Covestro bid gets greenlight as EU demands end to unlimited UAE backing
THE EUROPEAN UNION (EU) has approved Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s (ADNOC) €14.7bn (US$17.1bn)...
Petronas awarded Malaysia’s first geological assessment permit for offshore carbon storage
PETRONAS has secured Malaysia’s first permit to assess a depleted offshore gas field for carbon s...
ArcelorMittal adopts green hydrogen combustion at Spanish rolling mill after dropping German DRI plan
STEELMAKING giant ArcelorMittal has installed a green hydrogen combustion system to fuel the roll...
Rolls-Royce SMRs to be built in north Wales, generating 1.4 GW for UK electricity grid
THE UK’s first small modular reactors (SMRs) are set to be built at Wylfa in north Wales, with a ...
RSC urges government to stop PFAS polluters ‘getting off the hook’ following London coffee controversy
THE UK government has been urged to make industrial polluters pay for PFAS remediation in waterwa...
US government closes on US$1.5bn loan for Indiana coal-fed ammonia plant with carbon capture
THE US Department of Energy (DOE) has finalised a US$1.5bn loan to support construction of a coal...
LIVE reporting from Hazards35 process safety conference
Live reporting from Hazards35, IChemE's annual process safety conference.
Animal welfare experts renew call on UK government to ban CO2 for pig stunning
A COMMITTEE of animal welfare experts has recommended a ban on the use of high concentration CO2 ...
MIT researchers develop method to purify gene therapies ten times more quickly than current process
RESEARCHERS at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a method to purify gene...
Mazda unveils ‘mobile carbon capture’ system that could reduce tailpipe emissions
JAPANESE carmaker Mazda has unveiled a prototype exhaust system which it says could capture up to...
ExxonMobil fined £176,000 for ‘preventable’ flaring at Mossmorran in 2019
EXXONMOBIL has been fined £176,000 (US$232m) over a “preventable and unacceptable” week-long peri...
UK report calls for rethink on carbon removal priorities to meet net zero
A MAJOR government-commissioned review has called for a strategic overhaul of how the UK prioriti...
UK TiO2 producer accused of ‘betrayal’ as 270 jobs lost days after China deal
UK TITANIUM dioxide (TiO2) producer Venator Materials has cut more than 270 jobs after placing th...
UK safety regulator responds in full to fewer than a quarter of FOI requests
THE UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) responded in full to less than a quarter of public infor...
Less talk, more action: Glassey sets out agenda after appointment as EFCE president
INCOMING European Federation of Chemical Engineers (EFCE) president Jarka Glassey is calling for ...
Nestlé to axe 16,000 jobs despite recent business growth
NESTLÉ has announced it will cut 16,000 jobs worldwide over the next two years as part of the new...
Rosebank downstream emissions could reach 250m t of CO2 over 25 years, Equinor confirms
HYDROCARBONS extracted from the proposed Rosebank oil and gas field in Scotland are projected to ...
Toxic cough syrups linked to child deaths in India spark global health warnings
PRODUCTION at three pharmaceutical manufacturing sites in India has been suspended after state au...
AstraZeneca strikes US$555m deal to commercialise AI-discovered immunology drugs
ASTRAZENECA has completed a deal worth up to US$555m to commercialise immunology therapies discov...
BASF begins installation of industrial heat pump to deliver net-zero steam at Ludwigshafen
CONSTRUCTION of an industrial-scale heat pump has begun at BASF’s sprawling Ludwigshafen chemical...
INEOS announces further German plant closures months after European chemicals plan published
INEOS has announced plans to shut down its allyls and chlorine production plants in Rheinberg, Ge...
IVF breakthrough offers hope for infertile and same-sex couples
RESEARCHERS in the US have successfully fertilised egg cells encoded with DNA taken from human sk...
Water monitoring and life science projects receive UK Space Agency grants in latest funding round
INTERNATIONAL projects in water quality monitoring and life sciences research were among the prop...
‘Critical deficiencies’ led to near-fatal ammonia release at Virginia food processing plant, CSB finds
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has issued its final report into a near-fatal ammonia release ...
UK government signs off on first HyNet carbon capture projects amid £9.4bn CCUS drive
TWO PLANNED carbon capture facilities in the UK have become the first HyNet cluster projects to a...
IChemE Pharma SIG honours Jennifer Aitken’s legacy at London memorial seminar
ICHEME’s Pharma Special Interest Group (SIG) paid tribute to “dedicated” chemical engineer Jennif...
US-UK deal nuclear signed to speed up reactor approval, as companies announce cross-border partnerships
SIR KEIR STARMER and Donald Trump have signed a bilateral agreement to advance nuclear technology...
Samsara Eco unveils commercial textile recycling plant using AI-engineered enzymes
A COMMERCIAL-SCALE plant that will use AI-developed enzymes to recycle waste textiles and plastic...
Coolbrook cracks pyrolysis oil using renewable electricity
RENEWABLE process heat developer Coolbrook has successfully cracked pyrolysis oil made entirely f...
Imperial professor ‘honoured’ to have given Danckwerts Lecture on molecular systems engineering in Lisbon
ICHEME Fellow and Imperial College London professor Claire Adjiman delivered the prestigious Danc...
Australian coal giant to cut 750 Queensland jobs amid row over mining charges
MINING giant BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) has announced plans to cut 750 jobs across Queensland ...
‘Mass-produced cancer vaccine’ a step forward after US mice study
RESEARCHERS in the US have raised hopes for a universal cancer treatment after discovering non-sp...
OSU researchers secure funding to explore white hydrogen in Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY (OSU) researchers have secured shale-backed funding to investigate the ...
North Sea emissions falling short of long-term targets, warns NSTA
EMISSIONS reductions from oil and gas assets in the UK North Sea are falling too slowly to meet l...
Merck scraps £1bn R&D hub amid fears UK is ‘uninvestable’
US PHARMACEUTICAL giant Merck has axed plans to launch a £1bn (US$1.35bn) research & development ...
IChemE affiliate member showcased in OpenAI video series on education
AN ICHEME affiliate member has been selected by ChatGPT developer OpenAI to showcase how universi...
Kraft Heinz break-up aims to revive struggling brands
US FOOD giant Kraft Heinz will divide into two standalone companies by mid-2026, aiming to revers...
UK cement industry ‘increasingly under threat’ as domestic production falls to record low
UK CEMENT production has plunged to a record low, prompting a stark warning from the industry’s t...
Shell abandons Netherlands biofuels plant, casting doubt on SAF ambitions
SHELL has cancelled construction of its flagship biofuels plant in Rotterdam, shelving plans to p...
UK grid-scale battery storage gets £500m boost
THE UK National Wealth Fund (NWF) has joined two private investment firms in committing a total o...
Russia and China agree major new gas pipeline at Beijing talks
RUSSIA has signed an agreement to supply China with 50bn m3 of natural gas annually via a new pip...
Wood group accepts further reduction in Sidara takeover offer
WOOD GROUP has accepted a second reduction to a takeover offer from UAE-based Sidara which values...
Risk of UK electrical oil shortages averted after workers call off strike
WORKERS at an insulating oil supplier in northwest England have ended a fortnight-long strike aft...
Hull industry figures back UK bioethanol plant’s call for government support
INDUSTRY figures in Hull, UK have issued a joint statement backing Vivergo Fuels’ pleas for gover...
‘Unsuitable design’ blamed for gas release at Shell’s new North Sea facility
OIL AND GAS giant Shell has been ordered to improve the design of its newest facility in the Nort...
UK government launches competition for efficiency solutions in energy intensive industries
THE UK government has launched a Contracts for Innovation competition that will fund projects to ...
Painkillers from plastic waste
PLASTIC bottles could one day ail your ills rather than harming the environment after researchers...
UK biodiesel plant to close, operator announces
BIODIESEL manufacturer Greenergy has announced plans to cease production at its Immingham plant i...
EDF to invest £1.1bn in Sizewell C – but reduces overall stake in project
ENERGY giant EDF has said it intends to invest £1.1bn (US$1.5bn) in construction of the Sizewell ...
Australian researchers develop software to design chemical-free pest killers
RESEARCHERS at the University of Queensland in Australia have developed and tested a software pac...
Edinburgh researchers use bacteria to turn waste plastic into paracetamol
RESEARCHERS at the University of Edinburgh have developed a method to convert waste plastic bottl...
MIT researchers develop membrane that can fractionate crude oil without heating
RESEARCHERS at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a membrane they believe...
Plastics recycling facility launched in Cornwall to process microfibres from laundry
A “WORLD-FIRST” recycling centre has been launched in Cornwall, UK which will recycle plastics ex...
Carbon Clean and MODEC strike landmark deal for offshore carbon capture
UK CARBON capture technology developer Carbon Clean has entered a long-term commercial partnershi...
Food giants announce plans to eliminate synthetic dyes from US products by 2028
FOUR food manufacturers have pledged to eliminate synthetic dyes from products sold in the US by ...
ABF begins closure process of UK’s largest bioethanol plant amid uncertain government support
ASSOCIATED British Foods (ABF) has today started formal preparations to permanently close the UK’...
Researchers inject vegetables with melatonin using microneedles to extend shelf life
RESEARCHERS from the US and Singapore have developed a method to extend the shelf life of vegetab...
Industry welcomes UK government’s industrial strategy with cautious optimism
INDUSTRY leaders have cautiously welcomed the UK government’s new industrial strategy, which outl...
Arla Foods and DMK Group secure board approval for dairy merger
DAIRY cooperatives Arla Foods and DMK Group have had their proposed merger approved by both board...
Imperial College London professor to give 2025 Danckwerts Lecture
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON professor Claire Adjiman has been selected to give the 2025 Danckwerts Le...
Second UK bioethanol plant announces risk of ‘imminent’ closure
A SECOND UK bioethanol plant has said this week it faces “imminent closure” following the US-UK t...
Drones to monitor methane leaks from UK oil and gas facilities
OIL AND GAS giants Shell, Ithaca Energy and Equinor will use drones to measure methane emissions ...
Ineos to close world’s second largest phenol plant, blaming European energy costs and carbon tax
INEOS has announced it intends to close its phenol and acetone manufacturing plant in Gladbeck, G...
IChemE training gains official CPD recognition from Board of Engineers Malaysia
THE BOARD of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) has approved eight IChemE training courses for continuing p...
UK bioethanol plant closure delayed ten days after government talks
VIVERGO Fuels has extended the deadline to close its bioethanol plant in Hull, UK, pending govern...
UK government commits £200m for Acorn CCS cluster in Scotland
THE ACORN carbon capture and storage (CCS) cluster across Scotland will receive £200m (US$271m) o...
Wood awarded US$100m contract to reduce gas flaring in Iraqi oil fields
OIL AND GAS engineering consultancy Wood has been awarded US$100m worth of contracts to design ga...
UK spending review boosts CCS and R&D funding but industry awaits industrial strategy details
CARBON capture and storage (CCS) and research and development (R&D) received fresh funding commit...
Government selects Rolls-Royce to build UK’s first three SMRs and commits £2.5bn
THE UK government has chosen Rolls-Royce to build the country’s first three small modular reactor...
Sizewell C greenlit with £11.5bn of new state funding
THE UK government today promised to invest an extra £11.5bn (US$15.5bn) for two new reactors at S...
UK’s largest bioethanol plant to wind up operations next week if no state support confirmed
THE LARGEST producer of bioethanol in the UK could “begin the process of closure” next week if it...
UAE buys controlling stake from US firm in Congolese tin mine
CONTROL of a major source of the world’s tin supply has been sold by a US-based firm to a company...
Sellafield failing to address ‘intolerable risks’, damning parliamentary report warns
MANAGEMENT of the Sellafield nuclear facility in Cumbria, UK is not responding quickly enough to ...
Vaccine refrigeration and sewage treatment among winning projects in IChemE YEAIS
A SOLAR-POWERED refrigerator to make vaccines more accessible and a process to reduce the environ...
Northern Lithium completes two-month extraction demonstration, eying commercial production by 2028
NORTHERN Lithium, a startup planning to mine lithium in the northeast of England, has completed 6...
Bristol Myers Squibb signs US$11bn deal to manufacture BioNTech lung cancer treatment
GERMAN drug developer BioNTech has signed an agreement with US pharmaceutical giant Bristol Myers...
Carbon capture reactor achieves commercial scale, which makers say will capture 100,000 t/y of CO2
BRITISH carbon capture and storage (CCS) company Carbon Clean has achieved commercial scale for i...
Water treatment projects among winners of £42m round of funding from regulator
PILOT projects to improve water treatment were among the biggest winners in the latest round of a...
UK bioethanol plant warns of imminent closure after US trade deal
THE UK’s largest bioethanol manufacturing plant will close “in the next few weeks” if it does not...
At least five killed and six missing after chemical plant explosion in China
AN EXPLOSION at a chemical plant in the Shandong province in eastern China yesterday has killed a...
Pharma’s US$150bn investment in US sparks ‘exodus’ fears
PHARMACEUTICAL companies have invested more than US$150bn in US manufacturing and R&D since the e...
LIVE Reporting from ChemEngDayUK 2025
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British Steel confirms ‘stable supply of raw materials’ to Scunthorpe blast furnaces, ends redundancy consultation
BRITISH STEEL has closed its redundancy consultation for the two blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, UK...
Liquid air could be cheapest method for long-term energy storage, researchers predict
MODELLING by chemical engineers in the US and Norway suggests that liquid air energy storage (LAE...
Heidelberg Materials wins UK’s first approval for carbon capture cement plant
CEMENT maker Heidelberg Materials has been granted planning permission to integrate carbon captur...
Explainer: what next for Scunthorpe steelworks in the coming weeks and beyond
AMID the crisis at British Steel, questions are circulating about the long-term future of the Scu...
UK government ‘confident’ coke supply will keep Scunthorpe blast furnaces running while importing ‘whatever is available’
THE UK government is “confident” the supply of coke over the coming days will be sufficient for B...
UK’s first wastewater-based system to detect infectious disease outbreaks opens in Bath
A NEW research centre in Bath, UK is aiming to develop the country’s first nationwide early-warni...
Covestro scraps energy usage targets in favour of improved efficiency
GERMAN chemicals manufacturer Covestro has scrapped sustainability targets to reduce energy consu...
Teesside SAF plant selects joint Johnson Matthey and bp production process
US-BASED manufacturer Willis Sustainable Fuels (WSF) has chosen a production process co-developed...
Siemens to cut over 6,000 jobs globally in industrial automation and EV charging businesses
GERMAN technology conglomerate Siemens has announced it is cutting more than 6,000 jobs from its ...
Pipeline fire near Malaysian petrol station hospitalises 63, damages 190 homes
FIRE AND RESCUE authorities in the Malaysian state of Selangor have confirmed that at least 63 pe...
Shell, Equinor, and TotalEnergies to triple Norwegian CCS capacity with US$700m investment
NORTHERN Lights, a Norwegian joint venture between oil giants Shell, Equinor and TotalEnergies, h...
Croda opens new lipid manufacturing plant in Pennsylvania
BRITISH chemicals manufacturer Croda has opened a factory in the US to produce lipids that will b...
UK environment secretary targets waste reduction in pledge to make ‘reuse and repair the norm’
UK ENVIRONMENT secretary Steve Reed yesterday unveiled the government’s ambitious plans to reduce...
British Steel to close Scunthorpe blast furnaces after rejecting £500m government rescue package
BRITISH STEEL today announced plans to close its two blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, UK, with the l...
‘Non-stick’ coating boosts CO2 electrolysis run-time, paving the way for scalable green fuel production
RESEARCHERS in the US have discovered that applying a “non-stick” coating to electrodes used in C...
Energy majors to invest A$350m in new gas drilling projects for Australian east coast
OIL AND GAS giants ExxonMobil and Woodside have approved a A$350m (US$220m) investment to launch ...
RFK Jr eyes ban on synthetic dyes in food
ROBERT F Kennedy Jr has told US food and drink manufacturers he intends to ban synthetic dyes bei...
Project Willow to focus on recycling and bio-feedstock, first official glimpse of Grangemouth future shows
GRANGEMOUTH could host recycling and bio-feedstock production facilities after the site’s oil ref...
Microplastic pellets from North Sea cargo ship collision found washed up on shore
THE CARGO ship that crashed into an anchored jet fuel carrier near Hull, England last week was tr...
gigaCCS research centre opens in Norway to drive gigatonne-scale carbon capture
GIGATONNE-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) research will be the focus of a new facility in ...
AstraZeneca to acquire Belgian cell therapy biotech for up to US$1bn
BRITISH pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has struck a deal of up to US$1bn to acquire a biotech c...
No pollution seen following North Sea collision due to ‘fortunate’ circumstances
THE MARITIME and coastguard agency (MCA) has confirmed that no jet fuel appears to have spilled i...
North Sea oil spill may take two months to clear following ship collision – expert
JET FUEL that spilled into the North Sea following Monday’s collision between a tanker and a carg...
Update: Cargo ship owner says it was not carrying sodium cyanide at time of North Sea collision
THE OWNER of the cargo ship that crashed into a US-flag tanker in the North Sea on Monday has sai...
Liberty Steel begins pipeline production for transporting captured CO2 in Teesside
LIBERTY Steel has begun producing pipelines to transport captured CO2 from a future gas-fired pow...
Wood extends Shell contract to include work on new North Sea oil vessel
ENGINEERING firm Wood has signed a two-year extension to its contract with Shell for work on the ...
Burst water main ‘probable’ cause of Surrey sinkhole, geologists say
GEOLOGISTS have said a burst water main is the “probable” cause of a sinkhole that led to the col...
Concrete may last longer in nuclear power plants than previously thought, Japanese researchers claim
RESEARCHERS at the University of Tokyo have found that concrete could be more resilient to neutro...
UK government launches steel consultation to fanfare from industry and unions
A PUBLIC consultation on the future of the UK’s steel industry has been launched by the governmen...
UK chemical companies ‘optimistic’ about future growth despite recent decline
CHEMICALS companies have expressed a “high level of optimism” about future growth in the sector, ...
Chevron to cut up to a fifth of global workforce by 2026 after poor financial results
OIL GIANT Chevron has announced it will slash up to 8,000 jobs by the end of 2026, amounting to a...
US firm championed for sustainable investment to fund gas-powered data centres
AN INVESTMENT firm once hailed for “taking down big oil” has partnered with US oil and gas giant ...
Subsidies for Drax to halve as UK government sees ‘more limited role’ for power station
DRAX power station’s state subsidies will be halved once the current arrangement expires in April...
TCE Frank Morton 2025 live blog
Welcome to the The Chemical Engineer magazine's live blog for the Frank Morton sports day 2025, h...
‘The sooner the better’: UK village welcomes approval of new lithium extraction plant
PLANS for a lithium extraction plant on the site of a former cement works in County Durham, north...
US-based SAF producer becomes latest company to announce plans to open plant in Teesside
AMERICAN sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) producer LanzaJet has become the latest multinational co...
AstraZeneca scraps £450m Liverpool plant upgrade after UK government reneges on funding pledge
PHARMACEUTICAL giant AstraZeneca has scrapped plans for a £450m (US$559m) upgrade to its vaccine ...
UK government backs Cornwall's tin mining revival with £28.6m investment
TIN MINING’s return to Cornwall after nearly three decades received a boost last week with a £28....
Coca-Cola recalls drinks in UK due to chlorate contamination
COCA-COLA has recalled some drinks from UK retailers after discovering higher than normal levels...
UK chemicals sector on path of ‘steady decline’ according to new report
THE UK chemicals sector is on a trajectory of “steady decline” according to a new report publishe...
Food and drink companies urged to improve fertiliser use transparency in supply chains
FOOD and drink companies are not disclosing adequate information about the risks of synthetic fer...
Drax to expand US business with deal to supply wood pellets to Texas SAF startup
BRITISH-based power generator Drax has agreed the terms of a deal to supply wood pellets to a US ...
EU prepares ban on PFAS in consumer products as industry seeks exemptions
THE EUROPEAN Union will push ahead with proposals to ban PFAS in consumer products, the EU’s envi...
LA wildfires caused atmospheric lead levels to soar
WILDFIRES in Los Angeles have caused a steep rise in the amount of lead in the city’s atmosphere,...
US-developed drug formulation could eliminate cold storage for vaccines
RESEARCHERS at Pennsylvania State University have developed a new type of formulation for pro...
L’Oreal to start using AI for sustainable ingredient research
COSMETICS giant L’Oreal has announced a partnership with IBM to develop artificial intelligence t...
UK government launches lab in Gateshead to research heating from flooded mines
THE UK government has opened a lab in Gateshead in northeast England to research how heat can be ...
Aviation emissions predicted to rise until 2040s, despite increasing sustainable fuel alternatives
EMISSIONS from the aviation industry are projected to continue rising despite increased uptake of...
Middlesbrough team achieves UK’s first industrial-scale production of fusion-grade steel
MORE than five tonnes of fusion-grade steel have been produced using an electric-powered furnace ...
UCL academics praise UK government’s new AI strategy as ‘positive shift’
ACADEMICS at University College London (UCL) who met with Sir Keir Starmer on Monday have welcome...
Covestro announces nine-figure investment into Ohio polycarbonate plant
GERMAN chemicals manufacturer Covestro has announced a nine-figure investment to expand its polyc...
Ineos chairman says UK chemicals sector headed for ‘extinction’ following Grangemouth plant closure
BILLIONAIRE chairman of Ineos Sir Jim Ratcliffe has said the UK’s chemicals industry faces “extin...
Cornell researchers develop ‘win-win’ method for upcycling gold from electronics waste for CO2 conversion
CORNELL University researchers have developed a new method of extracting gold from electronic was...
Australian researchers create eco-friendly alternative to greenhouse gases in cooling tech
RESEARCHERS at Deakin University in Victoria, Australia, have developed a material which they say...
Ultra-potent greenhouse gases still ‘major problem’ – despite global agreement to phase out
EMISSIONS of ultra-potent greenhouse gases are much higher than official reported figures suggest...
EPA considers reclassifying vinyl chloride as a high priority substance
THE US Environmental Protection Agency has announced a formal review of how it classifies five to...
Israeli researchers develop gas-sensitive textile that could be worn by soldiers
ISRAELI researchers have developed a fibre that changes colour when exposed to toxic gas, which t...
Two IChemE Fellows awarded new year honours
TWO Fellows of IChemE have been awarded orders of the British Empire in the new year honours list.
UK chemical plants warned against ‘complacent’ safety standards as cold weather approaches
PLANTS handling hazardous chemicals should not be “complacent” to the risks associated with extre...
‘Birth’ of commercial nuclear fusion declared as plans for grid-scale Virginia plant announced
COMMERCIAL nuclear fusion moved a step closer after a US company announced plans to build a plant...
US researchers develop biodegradable material to replace microplastics
CHEMICAL engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new type of bi...
Low-carbon cement production to begin at new Welsh plant
A UK STARTUP has opened a low-carbon cement production facility in North Wales which it claims wi...
Rio Tinto to invest US$2.5bn in Argentina lithium mine
RIO TINTO has announced plans for a 20-fold expansion of lithium extraction at a mine in northwes...
Rio Tinto agrees deal to build Western Australia copper mine with Japanese partner
MINING giant Rio Tinto has reached an agreement with Japanese company Sumitomo to build a copper ...
Report calls for greater alignment between EU and US toxic chemical waste regulation
TOXIC chemical waste regulations in the EU and US should be more aligned to improve transparency,...
Equinor search for potential hydrogen customers months after scrapping pipeline to Germany
OIL AND gas giant Equinor has pushed ahead with plans to market hydrogen in Europe, issuing a cal...
Berkeley researchers use AI and 19th century maps to find lost oil and gas wells
RESEARCHERS at the Berkeley National Laboratory in California have created a tool that uses artif...
Hinkley Point welcomes UK’s first nuclear reactor in over 30 years
CONSTRUCTION at the Hinkley Point C power plant in Somerset has reached an important milestone wi...
‘Major win’ for UK energy as four nuclear power plants granted extensions
EDF’S decision to extend the life of four nuclear power plants has been hailed as “a major win” f...
UK government launches nuclear cybersecurity centre months after Sellafield fine for data breaches
THE UK NUCLEAR Decommissioning Authority has launched a cybersecurity centre near the Sellafield ...
Tokyo University researchers find critical conditions for embryo development using rubber rings
TOKYO University researchers have discovered some of the conditions that cause human cells in emb...
US researchers design water filtration system based on manta rays
RESEARCHERS in the US have developed a new water filtration design based on the feeding system in...
