‘Poignant day for the British Steel industry’ as Port Talbot’s last blast furnace closes
TATA Steel’s last blast furnace at Port Talbot will cease operations this afternoon, marking the ...
News - Industry
New UK coal mine blocked by High Court
PLANS to build the UK’s first coal mine in more than 30 years have been quashed by the High Court.
Grangemouth refining to stop next year with 400 jobs lost
GRANGEMOUTH refinery in Scotland will cease refinery operations in the second quarter of 2025 wit...
£500m for Port Talbot electric arc furnace, with 2,500 jobs still set to go
THE UK government has agreed to give a £500m (US$651m) grant to Tata Steel to build an electric a...
Equinor to use world’s first ammonia-powered supply ship
NORWEGIAN oil major Equinor has given the greenlight for one of its supply vessels to become the ...
UK government must do more to avert worrying outlook for UK chemicals sector, think tank warns
TENS of thousands of jobs in the UK chemical sector are at risk due to lagging decarbonisation po...
Mitsubishi to invest £250m doubling plastic output at Saltend site
MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL is investing £250m (US$328m) to double production of packaging plastic at its...
Arch and CONSOL merge to create US$5.2bn global coal giant
NORTH AMERICAN coal companies Arch Resources and CONSOL Energy are combining in an all-stock merg...
Chinese nuclear reactor completes world-first passive cooling test
CHINESE engineers have made a nuclear safety breakthrough by shutting off power to the cooling sy...
Rio Tinto agrees state support for one of Australia’s largest smelters as Queensland ramps up renewables
OPERATION of the Boyne aluminium smelter in Queensland could be protected until at least 2040 und...
Shell signs off on Phase 2 of Australia’s Surat Gas Project
SHELL is investing in the second phase of its Surat Gas Project in Queensland, Australia as it pu...
Costain wins multimillion-pound FEED contract for Teesside hydrogen pipeline network
COSTAIN has been awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract by bp for a new hydro...
US to label cleaner construction materials to accelerate use of greener glass, concrete, and steel
THE AMOUNT of carbon embedded in construction materials could soon become much easier to spot tha...
Woodside agrees US$2.35bn deal for OCI clean ammonia plant
WOODSIDE is buying a low-carbon ammonia plant in the US for US$2.35bn as it looks to expand into ...
Australia should avoid small nuclear reactors until 2040s, engineers warn
ENGINEERS have warned that if Australia is to reverse years of opposition to nuclear power and be...
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