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...
News - Industry
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...
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 ...
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...
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