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GeoPura secures £36m investment to scale its green hydrogen business
GEOPURA has secured £36m (US$43m) of investment from big players in industry, manufacturing and finance to support the roll out of its containerised hydrogen power units (HPU), the firm said
Type: News
Maersk investment group funding €1.5bn plant making fossil-free plastics from methanol
THE MAERSK shipping family are funding a new company producing fossil-free plastics from green methanol. Launched by Maersk’s holding company AP Moller Holding and headed by chemicals executives, Vioneo plans to spend €1.5bn (US$1.64bn) building a 300,000 t/y plant in Belgium that could start operations in 2028.
Type: News
History of Nuclear Engineering Part 1: Radioactivity
For just over 100 years, radioactive elements have proved of industrial and commercial use. Martin Pitt charts their emergence
Type: Feature
Adam Duckett speaks to the University of Warwick researchers who are recoding microbes into competitive chemical factories
Type: Feature
Parika Ale explains why she believes that – in some ways at least – the global pandemic has been the secret saviour of innovation and equality.
Type: Feature
Partners share open-source PFAS-free packaging technique
FOLLOWING nine months of collaboration, partners Solenis and Zume have open-sourced a recipe and method for manufacturing non-plastic PFAS-free food and consumer packaging.
Type: News
Adam Duckett asks what are men doing to help support gender diversity and inclusion?
Type: Feature
New way to turn waste polyethylene into fuel
Uses mild reaction conditions and cheap solvents
Type: News
First Cobalt repurposes idle plant to produce EV battery component
NORTH American cobalt company First Cobalt has announced a C$2.1m (US$1.6m) work programme as part of a project to repurpose its inactive cobalt refinery to produce about 25,000 t/y of cobalt sulfate, an essential component in electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacture. The facility would be the first in North America to produce cobalt sulfate.
Type: News
UK government launches nuclear cybersecurity centre months after Sellafield fine for data breaches
THE UK NUCLEAR Decommissioning Authority has launched a cybersecurity centre near the Sellafield nuclear facility in Cumbria, months after the plant was fined over vulnerabilities in its data systems.
Type: News
Australian researchers develop software to design chemical-free pest killers
RESEARCHERS at the University of Queensland in Australia have developed and tested a software package that designs pest control solutions without relying on synthetic pesticides or genetic modification.
Type: News
UK government extends Horizon Europe Guarantee scheme to end of September
THE support provided to UK Horizon Europe applicants while the UK is in the process of associating to the programme, has been extended for a further three months until the end of September 2023, the UK government has announced.
Type: News
BASF strengthens R&D capabilities with a more powerful supercomputer
BASF has started up a new supercomputer at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany, which it says is the largest in the world used for industrial chemical research. The 3-petaflop supercomputer takes over for a 1.75 petaflop predecessor, offering more capacity and computing to allow increasingly complex modelling, virtual experiments, and simulations.
Type: News
Sumitomo Chemical cutting 10% of workforce to stem bleeding from record US$2bn losses
SUMITOMO CHEMICAL will slash 4,000 jobs and restructure its business to “stop the bleeding” of its record loss of 312bn yen (US$2bn).
Type: News
UK researchers develop fridge-free hydrogel to store vital medicines
UK SCIENTISTS have developed a water-based gel that can store vital medicines, including the diabetes drug insulin, without the need for refrigeration.
Type: News
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 thanks to the US government’s push to introduce labels that will bolster the use of greener steel, concrete, and glass.
Type: News
UK launches major infrastructure database tracking progress on more than 700 projects
AN INTERACTIVE dashboard listing 775 major infrastructure projects worth more than £500bn (US$672m) has been released by the UK government to give business confidence to invest in projects, skills and tech development.
Type: News
Nouryon to acquire metal alkyl business
SPECIALTY chemicals company Nouryon is to acquire the merchant triethyl aluminium (TEAL) business from Sasol, an integrated energy and chemical company. This includes Sasol’s specialty fleet of returnable cylinders.
Type: News
EDF to invest £1.1bn in Sizewell C – but reduces overall stake in project
ENERGY giant EDF has said it intends to invest £1.1bn (US$1.5bn) in construction of the Sizewell C nuclear reactors on the Suffolk coast, UK, following government go-ahead for the project in June.
Type: News
