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Industrial fellowship for ‘living medicine’ cancer treatment
AN ICHEME Associate Member has won a prestigious funding award for her work on a cancer treatment, which turns a patient’s immune system against the disease.
Type: News
GSK buys Novartis out of consumer healthcare venture
GSK will pay US$13bn to take full control of its consumer healthcare venture with Novartis.
Type: News
Pioneering professor awarded IChemE medal
ICHEME has awarded the Andrew Medal to Freek Kapteijn, Professor and Section Head of Catalysis Engineering at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.
Type: News
£3.8bn UK gigafactory receives funding
THE UK Government has committed funding towards a huge £3.8bn (US$4.5bn) battery manufacturing plant that BritishVolt is building in Northumberland.
Type: News
IChemE Safety Centre Director appointed chair of Major Hazards Advisory Committee
TRISH KERIN, director of the IChemE Safety Centre, has been appointed chair of the Major Hazards Advisory Committee (MHAC) in Victoria, Australia, starting 1 June 2023.
Type: News
50 technologies that could change the world
BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED AI, data stored in DNA, and power beamed from space are among 50 emerging technologies that the UK’s innovation agency says could shape the economy in 2040 and beyond.
Type: News
Using AI to discover new processes
A MACHINE learning tool with the potential to search through millions of research papers to develop and refine processes has been described by researchers.
Type: News
Exxon’s algae biofuel venture enters new phase, targeting 10,000 bbl/d
EXXONMOBIL and biotech pioneer Synthetic Genomics are starting field trails for their joint algae biofuel research project as they aim to produce 10,000 bbl/d of fuel by 2025.
Type: News
Introducing the IChemE Sustainability Hub programme
Trish Melton previews a new IChemE initiative launching in January 2022.
Type: Feature
BP announces two new North Sea developments
BP has given the green light for the development of two North Sea oil fields worth a combined £420m (US$600m) and capable of a peak production of 30,000 bbl/d.
Type: News
PACKAGING solutions made from seaweed, and rocks that lock away CO2 are just two of this year’s Earthshot Prize winners revealed by the competition’s founder, Prince William.
Type: News
Nigel Hirst announced as next Deputy President as IChemE voting opens
NIGEL Hirst will be IChemE’s next Deputy President, while David Edwards will join the Board of Trustees as Honorary Treasurer.
Type: News
Volunteer Spotlight: Steve Flynn CEng FIChemE
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Type: Feature
Australia invests A$2bn to ‘supercharge’ green aluminium industry
AUSTRALIA’s energy-intensive aluminium producers are being urged to go green, with the government introducing a A$2bn (US$1.2bn) production credit to drive the shift towards cleaner practices.
Type: News
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 “intolerable risks” at the site posed by ageing assets, a damning new report has warned.
Type: News
Onshore fracking given go ahead in UK
CUADRILLA has been granted permission to begin fracking in the UK’s first onshore horizontal shale gas well.
Type: News
Wood commits to reducing its GHG emissions
GLOBAL engineering and consultancy company Wood has pledged to set a science-based target to reduce its direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40% compared to 2019 levels, by 2030.
Type: News
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 company to select Teesside, northeast England, as the location for a manufacturing plant.
Type: News
UK nuclear faces prospect of Euratom exit
Expert warns leaving would be a “tactical own goal”
Type: News
Dow plans zero emissions ethylene complex
DOW plans to create the world’s first net-zero emissions ethylene and derivatives complex, through an expansion and retrofitting of its Fort Saskatchewan site in Alberta, Canada.
Type: News
