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...
News - Industry
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...
Costain wins contract to upgrade Capenhurst uranium enrichment site
COSTAIN has won a contract from Urenco to engineer new and upgraded infrastructure at its Capenhu...
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...
Hydrogen plant set to revive Chapelcross nuclear site
A UK hydrogen developer is planning to build an electrolysis plant at the site of a former nuclea...
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...
Trump’s hardline tariffs on steel ‘damaging’ for UK suppliers says trade body
DONALD TRUMP’s tariffs on steel and aluminium imports “will be damaging” for UK suppliers and US ...
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...
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