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Green Brexit: The problem with chemical rules
Why the Great Repeal Bill won't work for REACH
Type: News
The chemical sector and its digital journey
Looking at the technology focus behind Industry 4.0
Type: News
News reports fatal chemical blasts in India
NEWS sites have reported fatal chemical incidents in India’s Hapur district, in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
Type: News
Chemical engineering student recognised for academic performance
A CHEMICAL engineering Master’s student at the University of Chester, UK, has been awarded a regional prize for academic performance.
Type: News
Chemical Engineers: RedR Needs You
What RedR is doing to help in disaster zones, and how you can help
Type: Feature
THE paramount importance of good safety performance is a message we need to continue to hammer home to our chemical engineering students, and since my last article (The Chemical Engineer 899), I have been involved in a number of discussions on how we teach safety at Loughborough University.
Type: Feature
AI could impact almost half of chemical engineering jobs, report says
CHEMICAL engineers’ workloads will be transformed by generative AI, allowing workers more time for “complex judgemental tasks”, according to a report published by Accenture.
Type: News
The National Expo for Chemical and Process Engineers Returns this May at the NEC
The Process & Chemical Engineering Show, running as part of the CHEMUK 2025 ‘Group of Events’, returns this May.
Type: Feature
Five killed in chemical plant explosion in China
FIVE people have been killed, one is missing, and another is being treated for injuries in hospital after an explosion at a Sinochem chemical plant in the city of Liaocheng in Shandong province, eastern China on Monday, Reuters reports.
Type: News
IChemE Fellows receive Queen’s Birthday Honours
HER Majesty The Queen has awarded birthday honours to IChemE Fellow Katherine Hirschfeld and Honorary Fellow Andrew Hopkins. Honours were also awarded to resigned Fellow, Mark Toner, and Kathryn Fagg, who is not an IChemE member, but is a chemical engineer who is set to speak at this year’s Chemeca.
Type: News
Saudi Aramco agrees US$702m deal with Sumitomo Chemical for majority stake in Petro Rabigh
OIL AND GAS giant Saudi Aramco will become the majority stakeholder of Petro Rabigh in a deal worth US$702m, further expanding its downstream petrochemical and refining operations.
Type: News
Terry Cooper: Preventer of Major Accidents
Terry Cooper is a chemical engineer by training. This article is an adapted version of a speech he delivered at Oil & Gas UK’s Safety 30 Conference in Aberdeen on 6 June. The conference marked the 30th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster.
Type: Feature
Philip Aldridge shares his plans as new NEPIC CEO
PHILIP ALDRIDGE, an IChemE member who has taken over as CEO of England’s Northeast Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC), spoke with The Chemical Engineer about his plans for the group, which works with its member companies to support growth in the region.
Type: News
Student chemical engineering projects recognised by IChemE awards
ICHEME has presented awards to school students in Singapore for projects that used chemical engineering skills.
Type: News
IChemE releases report on the role of chemical engineering in the biosector
ICHEME’s BioFutures Steering Group has released a report with recommendations on how the Institution can better engage with chemical engineers in the emerging biosector as well as develop opportunities for growth.
Type: News
Chemical engineers work to create hydrogen from steel sludge
CHEMICAL engineers from Imperial College London have joined forces with the UK’s Materials Processing Institute (MPI) to develop a process that will produce hydrogen and valuable metals from steelmaking sludges.
Type: News
Ineos awards Técnicas Reunidas contract for massive European chemicals investment
INEOS has awarded Técnicas Reunidas a contract to engineer a world-scale ethylene plant in Belgium, marking the largest investment in European chemicals in the last 20 years.
Type: News
Chemical JV to close BDO plant in Malaysia
BASF Petronas Chemical (BPC), a Malaysian-based joint-venture (JV) between BASF and Petronas Chemical Group (PCG), will close its butanediol (BDO) and derivatives plant in Kuantan, Malaysia, in March 2021. This comes as competition in the region increases.
Type: News
